July/August 1999
Upfront

MAGAZINES
A Neoliberal Tune-up at The Washington Monthly
by Andrew Hearst

ONLINE JOURNALISM
New Media, Old Values at the Online News Association
by Nicholas Stein

OWNERSHIP
The New Harmonics in Hartford
by Carly Berwick

NEWSPAPERS
Small Papers, Big Chain
by Aaron Moore

FIRST AMENDMENT
Free Speech: Look Who’s Flunking
by Liza Featherstone

LANGUAGE CORNER
"Whose" You Can Use
by Evan Jenkins

NEW MEDIA
Medical News Goes Digital
by Janice Hopkins Tanne

Features

COVER STORY
Pay for Journalists Is Going Up
Can it really be true – more money and more jobs in a profession where wages traditionally have been nothing to write home about? Surprisingly, over the past few years, the increase in journalists’ earnings has outstripped those in most other occupations. Nonetheless, many newspeople are still playing catch-up.
by Anne Colamosca

WORKPLACE
Burnout!
Journalism can be an awesomely demanding vocation – mentally and physically – because of deadline pressures, long hours, and competition. That adds up to more anxiety, worry, and stress than some people in the profession can handle. What really happens when the job becomes too much? And what can be done to help the afflicted?
by Joanmarie Kalter

NEW MEDIA
What I Saw in the Digital Sea
A twentysomething journalist who swam for two years in the turbulent waters of online journalism lives to tell the tale: how the way news is collected, processed, and reported online is evolving and why he’s worried about it.
by Frank Houston

The Water’s Fine
Another journalist journeys from the Web to print – and back again.
by Jonathan Dube

REPORTING
Rethinking the Race Beat
News organizations are striving for better coverage of issues that confront ethnic minorities. Do journalists need to be specialists to get that story right, or can editors just hand the task over to general assignment reporters?
by Barry Yeoman

CJR POLL
Handling Corrections
For 300 years, U.S. journalists have been wrestling with how to deal with blunders, bloopers, mistakes, and miscues that creep into their reports. In the latest cjr/Public Agenda poll, 125 senior newspeople arrive at some troubling conclusions.
by Neil Hickey

POLICY
A Babel of Broadcasts
America’s taxpayer-funded global radio and TV services – Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and many others – are pumping out propaganda to the world around the clock. But the duplication of language programs is wasting millions of dollars, and nobody knows who’s listening.
by Mark Hopkins

SPECIAL REPORT
A Raucous Century of Covering Politics
From Mencken to McGrory, the 1900s have produced the most captivating coverage of politics and politicos in the nation’s history. Here’s the fourth in cjr’s year-long series – the Twenty-first Century Project.
by James Boylan

Departments

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
From Marconi to Murrow to – Drudge?
by Lawrence K. Grossman

DARTS & LAURELS

ESSAY
The Virtual Reporter
by Mike Hoyt

THE LOWER CASE

CJR World
Canada
Toronto’s Bloody Newspaper Wars
by Don Townson

Magazine Cease-fire
by Nicholas Stein

Books

Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
by Christopher Ogden
Reviewed by Piers Brendon

Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death
by Susan Moeller
Reviewed by Tom Goldstein

EXCERPTS

Not by Politics Alone:
The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
by Sara Diamond

The Plot to Get Bill Gates
by Gary Rivlin

Secrecy: The American Experience
by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself
by Lanny J. Davis

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