December 1999 |
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When Disaster Strikes
How should a news organization respond to credibility crises over plagiarism, fabrication and the like? Editors, some of whom have been there, offer hard-earned wisdom on what to do.
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By Don Campbell
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How Bad Is Big?
Hold back the tears: Megamergers such as the CBS/Viacom deal may well be good news for journalism, a veteran media writer suggests.
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By Paul Farhi
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Journalists at Risk
The First Amendment provides little comfort for many of the United States' foreign-language journalists, who face the threat of physical violence, sometimes fatal, from their readers.
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By William Kleinknecht
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Prodigious Progeny
Many
of today’s successful journalists come by it naturally: They’re
following
the career path of a
parent.
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By Karen Lee Scrivo
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The State of The American Newspaper
Feeling the Heat
Long overlooked, America’s weeklies are being snapped up by hungry chains. Along the way, more community voices are being lost.
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By Buzz Bissinger
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A Humbling Career Launch
“Were there any
Americans on that boat?” a flustered radio writer is asked during his interminably long, first night on the job.
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By Marvin Kalb
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A Family Weekly Does It Right
In Georgia, the Espys have been
at it since 1906.
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By Reese Cleghorn
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A Costly Rookie Mistake
The L.A. Times pays the price for its publisher's lack of newspaper experience.
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By Rem Rieder
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The Company That Would Be King
Will the Viacom-CBS merger lead to better and cheaper programming?
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By Douglas Gomery
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Happy Holidays for Online Retailers
Is the Internet the shopping mall of the future?
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By David Carlson
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Muzzling the Media in the Name of Privacy
France and Hong Kong move to quash press “excesses.”
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By Jane Kirtley
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A Fresh Approach to Boosting Circulation
Newspapers should make more creative use of the demographic data they have on hand.
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By John Morton
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Online Cheerleading for Golf?
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By Chris Harvey
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AJR Asks
What is the best perk associated with your job?
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By AJR Staff
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Livin’ La Vida Overdone
Ricky Martin is a teen sensation. And, it appears, a media sensation--providing inspiration for muchos headlines and irresistible phrases. You really know you’re a pop-culture phenomenon when…
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By Lori Robertson
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“Inside the Adult Brain”
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By Lori Robertson
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Setting Up Mobsters in the Press?
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By Jon Marcus
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Sacred Satire
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By Kent German
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Reporters with a Cause
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By Natalie Pompilio
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A Flexible Approach to Style and Language
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
By Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly
Times Books
384 pages; $35
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Book review by Carl Sessions Stepp
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Jumping the Fence
Tom Griscom, former political editor at the Chattanooga News-Free
Press, returns to the city as executive editor of the Chattanooga
Times and Chattanooga Free Press.
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By Lori Robertson
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A Two-way Threat
Not only has Lowell Bergman gained the honor of having Al Pacino portray him in film, but the former “60 Minutes” staff producer’s byline has been popping up in the New York Times as well.
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By Danielle Christophe
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Philosophical Differences
After more than two years as executive editor of the Binghamton, New
York, Press & Sun-Bulletin, Martha M. Staffens is suddenly out of
the job.
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By Lori Robertson & Carol Guensburg
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A Landmark Investment
The 88,103-circulation Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina
adds 53 new positions and invests $13 million in new technology.
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By Lori Robertson & Carol Guensburg
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Burgeoning Bloomberg
Bloomberg News' Washington bureau makes 15 hires this year, seven
for new positions.
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By Lori Robertson & Carol Guensburg
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Bits 'n' Pieces
New Orleans' Times Picayune President Linda Dennery becomes
publisher of Newark's Star-Ledger.
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By Lori Robertson & Carol Guensburg
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Cliché Corner
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By Lori Robertson
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