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
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