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CJRColumbia Journalism Review

March/April 1999

Features COVER STORIES/TECHNOLOGY

We're All Nerds Now
The computer-reporting revolution is transforming the working lives of journalists across the country. Here's why.
by Joel Simon with Carol Napolitano

How (My Computer and) I Got That Story

SPECIAL REPORT
Dueling Monicas
A Web site exclusive on what you missed if you missed the "Monica" interview.
by Russell Frank

SPECIAL REPORT
Covering Criminal Justice
A resource guide presented by the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Columbia Journalism Review.

REPORTING
Covering Managed Care
The transformation that managed care has brought to American medicine is one of the biggest stories of our time. Here is a resource guide for reporters and editors.
by Trudy Lieberman

CJR POLL
Rating the Recruits
How does the new crop of journalists compare -- in passion and performance -- with its predecessors?
by Neil Hickey

NEWSPAPERS
No Longer Just Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
Led by Stern and New Times, the alternative weeklies, once the voice of the counterculture, now resemble -- and often define -- the culture they used to attack.
by Kevin McAuliffe

SPECIAL REPORT
The Business Century
From the birth of organized stock markets to the death of organized monopolies, the coverage of America's economic news truly came of age over the last 100 years.
by Bill Saporito

Upfront

Departments

INDEX
People and organizations mentioned in this issue

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Letters

DARTS & LAURELS

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Making a Mess of Digital TV
by Lawrence K. Grossman

ESSAY
The Hypocrisy Flag
by Mike Hoyt

THE LOWER CASE