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September/October 1999 Upfront MEDICAL REPORTING New Drugs: A Dose of Reality by Trudy Lieberman WRITERS King of the Obits: Full Lives, Full Sentences by Bruce Porter MAGAZINES Inside Outside: Can the Magazine Stay on the Mountain? by Dante Chinni LANGUAGE CORNER Going Native by Evan Jenkins TELEVISION The 60 Minutes Effect by Elizabeth Werner HOW THEY PLAYED IT Press Angst Over Standardized Tests by James Kelleher Features Special Report Reporting Race Race and diversity stories supposedly make people’s eyes glaze over these days. But a surprising number of journalists have found ways to make those reports fresh and compelling. This special package tells about just such work. by Mike Hoyt, Sharon Rosenhause, Nicholas Stein, and Sheila Stainback reporting Covering the Unfriendly Skies Few news organizations do regular, systematic reporting on aircraft safety. It takes a tragedy, like the JFK Jr. crash, to put the subject front and centerfor both the public and the press. by Marie Tessier REPORTING Using Children as Sources Sometimes kids are witnesses to crimes, or are personally involved in tragic or traumatic events. What should come first: serving a child’s best interests or doing the best possible story? by Elizabeth Stone ISSUES Witnesses for the Prosecution Do journalists compromise their neutrality and objectivity by testifying before tribunals about atrocities they’ve reported on? It’s an important issue for newspeople in the wake of Kosovo and Rwanda. by S. Austin Merrill RESOURCE GUIDE Covering Money and Politics Democrats have their "Leadership 2000" club, Republicans have their "Season Pass" – both for high rollers. The parties and their candidates plan to make money talk louder than ever before in the forthcoming elections. How do journalists find out who gave what to whom, and explain what it all means? This guide will help. by Peter Overby CJR POLL Would You Want Your Kid to Be a Journalist? Encourage or discourage? We asked our panel of high-level newspeople if they’d steer their sons and daughters into the news biz or warn them off it. We got some intriguing answers. by Neil Hickey TELEVISION Beachfront Property on the Cyber Sea As TV enters the Digital Age, the question arises: Does the industry owe the public more news and public affairs programs – as a payback for an extraordinarily valuable gift of electronic real estate? by Neil Hickey SPECIAL REPORT This Warring Century In the wars, revolutions, and police actions of the last hundred years, combat correspondents have struggled to report battlefield information – and the military has endeavored to control it. Here’s another chapter in CJR’s year-long series on journalism at the millennium. by H.D.S. Greenway Books The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones Reviewed by Jonathan Z. Larsen Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book by Rod Smolla Reviewed by Tom Goldstein BOOK REPORTS Don’t Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us by Bruce W. Sanford Warp Speed: Amerca in the Age of Mixed Media by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel The Women Who Wrote the War by Nancy Caldwell Sorel E.W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers by Gerald J. Baldasty The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism, Vol. 3: "Gone Astray" and other Papers from Household Words 1851-1859 Edited by Michael Slater Reviewed by James Boylan Departments IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST An Outbreak of Internet-phobia by Lawrence K. Grossman DARTS & LAURELS ESSAY Maureen Dowd’s Diary by Mike Hoyt THE LOWER CASE cjr  |  archive  |  resources  |  contact  |  search  |  subscribe