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CJRColumbia Journalism Review

May/June 1999

Features
KOSOVO: SPECIAL REPORT
INSIDE THE PULITZERS
AN INTIMATE LOOK AT COVERING LITTLETON
AND MORE

Reporting
Kosovo: A Special Report
How correspondents are dealing with the hazards, harassments, and hassles of getting the news out of the Balkans.
by Kevin McAuliffe

Awards
Inside the Pulitzers
The 1999 jurors discuss their deliberations -- and why they are encouraged by this year's winners.
by the editors of CJR

Breaking News
An Intimate Look at Covering Littleton
As the school massacre story erupted, a Denver TV station began a grueling marathon newscast. Here's an inside report on how its newspeople did it.
by Dean Rotbart

Web Special: Littleton
With the Columbine Kids
Amanda Onion was part of the media swarm in Littleton, Colorado after the high school murders there. She felt "sick," in her words, about the thought of asking children to discuss the horrors they had experienced. Until she met them.


Crime
When a Prisoner Claims Innocence
Here are three books and ten lessons for journalists on covering possible wrongful convictions -- and maybe even preventing them.
by Steve Weinberg

Opinion
How the Monica Story Played in Mid-America
A dispatch from the Heartland on the mainstream press's "valiant and expert" handling of 1998's hottest topic.
by Michael Gartner

Magazines
The Fuller Effect
Sex, kiss, lick, moan, swoon. That's how Glamour grabs your attention. Bonnie Fuller is grabbing readers, too. But after the sex comes the question: Is that all there is?
by Esther Davidowitz

Upfront

  • TELEVISION
    Public Affairs at PBS: The Pressure Is On
    by Karen Bedford
  • MAGAZINES
    Mainstreaming Reason
    by James Kelleher
  • FOLLOW-UP
    More Bad Banana: A Burned Source Reaches for a Shield Law
    by Brian Lyman
  • Q&A
    Inside Stories: Life on the Prison Beat
    by Peg Tyre
  • LANGUAGE CORNER
    It Takes Ten, Roughly
    by Evan Jenkins

Books
Active Reporter or Passive Conspirator?
Anthony Marro reviews Michael Isikoff's Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story

Departments

INDEX
People and organizations mentioned in this issue

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Letters

DARTS & LAURELS

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Will Success Spoil Network News?
by Lawrence K. Grossman

ESSAY
Anonymous Sources, Slippery Slopes
by Mike Hoyt

THE LOWER CASE