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November/December
1999
Letter from the Publisher
The media world is exploding; we need to help you keep up with it. That, simply, is why we've implemented a number of changes to the Columbia Journalism Review starting with this issue.
You'll find a lot that's familiar, and a number of new features and approaches, including:
- A new look, designed
to make CJR easier to read and more accessible.
- Voices, a new section of the magazine that aims to serve as a forum for the
exchange of multiple ideas and perspectives about journalism.
- Three new columnists.
Several familiar features appear a little different. Darts & Laurels is now part of The Watchdog. We'll be broadening our monitoring of journalistic performance, and this format should give us more flexibility to deal with complex issues.
All this is in the context of CJR's original mission: "to help stimulate improved performance" in the journalistic profession. For thirty-eight years, the magazine has been a guidepost for journalistic integrity, independence, and fairness. We intend to draw on that legacy and continue as the standard setter and agenda setter for journalists in the new millennium.
We expect more improvements in the next few months, so we particularly welcome your views about our changes. We'll print a selective sample and will study carefully all the comments that are made.
New Role for Loeb
Marshall Loeb
served with great distinction over the past three years as editor of the Columbia
Journalism Review. He has moved on to CBS Market Watch but has agreed to
continue his affiliation with CJR by writing a column on magazines, starting
with the January issue. We at CJR are pleased that we will have his advice
and judgment in the years ahead. I will serve as editorial director for the
time being.
-David Laventhol
CONTENTS
Cover Story/Politics 2000
Andrew Kohut. Why voters avoid campaign news.
New Century, New Approaches. CJR's Brent Cunningham reports on how the media are covering Campaign 2000.
Jack Germond. Why a seasoned political columnist is losing faith in the press.
Roone Arledge. ABC's chairman proposes some "un-conventional" ideas.
Ten ideas for reform. Eleanor Clift. Matthew Cooper. E.J. Dionne. Elizabeth Drew. James Fallows. Gwen Ifill. Peter Prichard. Jay Rosen. Hedrick Smith. Judy Woodruff.
Gail Collins & Joe Klein: a conversation. Two media pros talk politics.
SPECIAL
REPORT: Local Television
Quality Sells, But . . .
The Project for Excellence in Journalism's second annual survey of local television
finds continued correlation between quality programming and good financial return.
But the survey also shows a precipitous decline in enterprise reporting.
ARTICLES
RATING
THE BEST NEWSPAPERS
100 editors make their choices.
A
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
by Peter H. King. Herb Caen's ghost and the Examiner sale.
A
JOURNALIST'S LIFE
A Baltimore Sun photographer eyes his world.
CENTERFOLD
Can Viacom's Reporters Cover Viacom's Interests?
Mark Crispin Miller, of The Project on Media Ownership, is worried.
Plus, Planet Viacom: a visual analysis of the mega-merger.
THOUGHTS
AT THE MILLENNIUM
An all-star cast evaluates the media as the century turns.
Journalism students give their views.
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS
CURRENTS
WATCHDOG (Darts & Laurels)
LOWER CASE
VOICES/BOOKS
Justin Kaplan and Anne Bernays
James Boylan
