May 1998 Synergy City
Chicago's Tribune Co. is revolutionizing how it does business--but at
what cost to its newspapers? > read more
By Ken Auletta
June 1998 Endangered Species
As the newspaper industry consolidates, the ranks of independent
newspapers are thinning. Something special is being lost. > read more
By James V. Risser
July/August 1998 Missing The Story at the Statehouse
State governments are doing more than ever. So why are newspapers paying
less attention? > read
more
By Charles Layton and Mary Walton
September 1998 Giant
The Texas spirit is alive and kicking in Dallas, where A.H. Belo Corp.
is bent on doing well by doing good. > read more
By Roy Reed
October 1998 In Lord Thomson's Realm
In small towns across America, the Canadian-born chain struggles with
its penny-pinching legacy. > read more
By William Prochnau
November 1998 Goodbye, World
Foreign news is disappearing from many of America's newspapers. A
legendary war correspondent visited newsrooms across the country and found
out why: It has been completely overwhelmed by local news. > read more
By Peter Arnett
December 1998 Editor Inc.
Once upon a time editors ruled their worlds like princes. No more. In
today's corporate, high-pressure environment, their roles have multiplied
even as their clout has waned. Here are 13 ways of looking at newspaper
editors. > read
more
By Geneva Overholser
January/February 1999 The Battle of the Bay
Surrounded on all sides, the long-somnolent San Francisco Chronicle has
declared war. The enemy it fears most? Knight Ridder. The grail? The
lucrative suburbs. >
read more
By Cynthia Gorney
March 1999 What Do Readers Really Want?
Market research is supposed to tell us, but often it's confusing,
contradictory or just plain wrong. Here's why. > read more
By Charles Layton
April 1999 The New Washington Merry-Go-Round
A survey of 19 key agencies reveals that newspapers are jettisoning
traditional beat coverage. Is the public being served? > read more
By John Herbers and James McCartney
May 1999 The Selling of Small-town America
Hometown dailies are trading like used cars at an auction. Where's the
cash coming from? Would you believe a leveraged-buyout king, Alabama's state
pension fund and Warburg, Pincus? > read more
By Mary Walton
June 1999 FEAR.COM
Newspapers are on the Web because they have to be, but they're still
trying to figure out what to do there. > read more
By Chip Brown
July/August 1999 Newspaper Monopoly
Chains are proclaiming ³location, location, location² as they swap
properties for geographic dominance. > read more
By Jack Bass
July/August 1999 Capital News
One year later, reporting ranks are up in 24 statehouses. > read more
By David Allen and Sinead O'Brien
September 1999 Then and Now
Softer news, fewer quirks and twice the space: A major new survey
reveals how papers have changed--for better and worse. > read more
By Carl Sessions Stepp
October 1999 The Training Track
Long underachievers in providing training, newspapers are finally
picking up the pace. But is it enough? And does it reach enough people? > read more
By Winnie Hu
November 1999 Follow the Money
Taking a cue from their readers, newspapers have enthusiastically
climbed aboard the business bandwagon. > read more
By Lewis M. Simons
November 1999 Follow the Ball
Why these are the best of times in the sports department, too. > read more
By Lewis M. Simons
December 1999 Feeling the Heat
Long overlooked, America's weeklies are being snapped up by hungry
chains. Along the way, more community voices are being lost. > read more
By Buzz Bissinger
January/February 2000 Down and Out in L.A.
Mark Willes' ³new and improved² Los Angeles Times was going to be the
model of the modern newspaper. It became instead a California bad dream.
Here's how it happened.
> read more
By William Prochnau