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American Journalism Review
Trade journal reporting on broadcast and print journalism. For Trade and Professional audiences.
Articles from Vol. 23, No. 10, December
A Better Offer. (by Lines)
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A year after resigning in protest from Stars & Stripes, David B. Offer finds the perfect fit as executive editor of two community news-papers in Maine. Offer, 60, succeeds Soren Nielsen, who retired in July from Augusta's Kennebec Journal and...
About Our Journalism
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When terrorism took down the World Trade Center early on a Tuesday in September, 28 Knight Ridder newsrooms had extra editions on the street within hours. For the following week, these same newsrooms -- like so many of their counterparts across the...
A High-Profile Debut: Aaron Brown Had Barely Started at CNN When Terrorists Attacked the World Trade Center. He's Been a Constant On-Air Presence Ever since as the News Network's Lead Anchor
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Last spring CNN, losing ground in the increasingly competitive cable news wars, made a run at ABC News' Aaron Brown. For a decade at ABC, Brown had worked as a weekend anchor and as a correspondent for "Nightline" and "World News Tonight." But CNN's...
Disappearing Documents: The Decision to Halt Online Access to Federal Court Papers Is Surprisingly Understandable. (the Online Frontier)
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Public information goes up, public information goes down. Just as government finally wakes up to the Web, just as journalists and others learn to use it, documents disappear from official domains. This fall two events highlighted the importance--and...
Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test. (Free Press)
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According to his biography on WTVF-Channel 5's Web site, reporter Rob Manning loves to do live, breaking news stories. So perhaps it should be no surprise that he decided to break into Nahsville's water plant to demonstrate the potential threat terrorism...
Explaining the Rage: How Well Have the American Media Done in Analyzing Why Much of the Muslim World Seems So Resentful of the United States?
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WHY DO THEY HATE US? The question--asked in tones sometimes furious, sometimes bewildered and sometimes both--popped up again and again in newspaper headlines and on television and radio news programs in the days after the September 11 attacks on...
In It for the Money: Maybe It's Not So Bad If Some TV Stations Drop Local News. (Broadcast Views)
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The decision came as a shock to almost everyone in the newsroom. Anchor Rick Edlund said it felt like a kick in the gut when he learned in late September that KDNL-TV in St. Louis would be the latest station to shut down its news operation (see Bylines,...
In the Dark: Truth about the American War Effort and the Anthrax Attacks Has Been an Elusive Target. (from the Editor)
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REM RIEDER Journalists like to know. They have to know, of course, to do their jobs. How can you explain a situation to other people if you don't have it figured out yourself? But it's more than that. Journalists by nature are the kind of...
Journalists Are Still Wary of Online News. (Too Sheptical)
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Journalists are concerned about the credibility of digital news, hut the online public says it's a non-issue. That's a key finding of a survey commissioned by the Online News Association to gauge perceptions of how well online sites are meeting...
Just How Independent a Voice? (VOA'S Role)
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Every time Spozhmai Maiwandi delivers a newscast to her former countrymen, she fulfills her late father's dream--that the people of Afghanistan be able to hear Voice of America in their own language. He wanted them, she says, to know about democracy....
Media Smackdown! (Free Press)
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Few know better than former wrestling star turned Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura that any hero in white tights needs a foil in black. And though he's traded his tights for suits, Ventura still hasn't retired the idea of a foil. And no one knows...
News or Propaganda?: Broadcasters Who Agreed to Edit the Bin Laden Tapes Should Also Be Skeptical of U.S. Government Information. (First Amendment Watch)
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In 1988, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government used the 1981 Broadcasting Act to keep British television and radio stations from airing the actual voices of any person representing or supporting the Irish Republican Army or its political arm,...
Northern Exposure: A Washington Post Correspondent Traveling with the Northern Alliance Finds Covering the Early Days of the War against the Taliban to Be Part Hemingway, Part Evelyn Waugh Satire. (Letter from Afghanistan)
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They told us to turn the headlights off after the checkpoint in Charikar. It's probably not true, but it certainly seemed that night that there was no darker place on earth than the road from Charikar to the front lines outside Kabul in northern Afghanistan....
Not So Rosey in Philly. (by Lines)
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However complex the reasons behind the November 6 resignation of Robert J. Rosenthal as editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, one thing is clear: In the newsroom, he's going to be a tough act to follow. "I'm just heartbroken," says reporter Nancy...
Small Paper, Big Story: Hometown Dailies across the Country Chased Local Angles in the Aftermath of the September 11 Attacks
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"It is as if we are expecting the next explosion to happen, the next anthrax-tainted envelope to be mailed and we are aware it can happen in Shreveport just as easily as it can happen in New York City or Washington, D.C." From an October column...
Starting Over: When David Black Bought the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, He Acquired Little More Than a Name-Plate and an Editorial Staff; in Just over Three Months, He Built a Brand-New Newspaper
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Desolation Sound doesn't seem like the ideal place to begin rescuing a newspaper. It is a popular cruising spot off the wild western coast of British Columbia that attracts the hardy sailors. Like David Black, a wealthy Canadian newspaper entrepreneur...
Tactical Shift: Washington Bureau Chiefs Have Redeployed Their Forces to Long-Abandoned and Newly Created Beats in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks
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Sergio Bustos was confident on his turf. He was Gannett's man in Washington for two papers in Arizona, the Republic and the Tucson Citizen, and one in Texas, the El Paso Times. That meant he devoted a lot of his reporting time to the murky issues of...
The Anthrax Enigma: As They Struggled to Cover the Bioterror Scare, the News Media Had No Precedents, No Blueprints. Neither Did Their Often-Disagreeing Sources. Did News Outlets Keep Their Audiences Informed without Unduly Heightening the Fear?
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When a second wave of horror rocked a shell-shocked and grieving nation in early October, the terrorists behind it appeared to be operating on the axiom: If you want to scare the wits out of America, scare journalists first. In what could be considered...
The Hispanic Challenge: Newspapers across the Country Struggle to Attract Readers from America's Fastest-Growing Ethnic Group
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In 1983, a team of reporters and editors at the Los Angeles Times worked for six months to prepare a three-week series on Southern California's growing Hispanic population. The effort won the Times a Pulitzer Prize, but not a new crop of Hispanic readers....
Thunder on the Right: Conservative Commentators Have Been Exceedingly Muscular in Their Pronouncements on How the United States Should Respond to September 11
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The message on the cover of the October 15 issue of The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine founded by William Kristol, was hardly subtle: "The Case for American Empire" the block-type headline blared across a backdrop of sailors hoisting a...
Transforming a Nicaraguan Newspaper. (Storied Daily)
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The female journalists in La Prensa's newsroom were not happy with their executive editor--they hated his suggested name for a planned weekly section aimed at women, Hogar y Cocina (Home and Kitchen). "Women are interested in more than home and kitchen,"...
War Comes Home: Strange Days Create New Challenges for Journalists. (Top of the Review)
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The distinguished members of our college's Board of Visitors get together twice a year. Often the venue is the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times, courtesy of its former longtime chief, Jack Nelson, who has served on our board since 1983. But...
War Lessons. (Free Press)
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Because the media and the government don't necessarily want the same things from war coverage, and both institutions are getting a trial by fire on what those things might be since September 11, the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., wanted...
You Furnish the Legend, I'll Furnish the Quote. (Free Press)
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One hundred years ago this fall, a then-prominent journalist named James Creelman published a book of reminiscences called "On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent." It was a self-congratulatory work replete with...
Zapped, Not Thrown: Electronic Delivery Saves Money but Could Limit Public Discourse. (the Newspaper Business)
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It has forever been a quirk of the newspaper business that, after spending vast amounts of money to gather, condense, edit and print information, the final product for the most part winds up being thrown at the customer. True, some papers are sold...
