Editor & Publisher

OVER THE YEARS, Jorge Mas Canosa's Cuban American National Foundation has used bumper stickers, bus posters and billboards to blast the Miami Herald and publisher David Lawrence Jr. Last week, however, the fervently anti-Castro group used the Herald...

"DON'T USE MY name!" She was an old friend. I simply mentioned that I was finishing an article describing her experience with sexual violence. I told her once before that I wouldn't identify her, but she reiterated the above-mentioned plea. ...

UNITY '94, THE first-ever joint convention of African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American journalists, had, in effect, two opening ceremonies. The first, held on the evening of July 28, was a familiar set piece of the newspaper...

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Associated Presss Managing Editors has wisely backed off from the hazardous reef it was sailing into with an overly detailed code of ethics and is now proposing a much shorter and simpler Statement of Ethical Principles...

FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AT Inter Press Service are threatening the future of its Global Information Network distribution wing. The difficulty bodes ill for GIN'S subscribers: 28 English-language and 15 Spanish-language publications or broadcasting outlets,...

FOR THE SECOND year in a row, the National Association of Black Journalists singled out the New York Daily News for its Thumbs Down Award. Last year, the Daily News was cited because it fired all its black male reporters during a downsizing and...

SCARBOROUGH RESEARCH CORP. has apologized to its newspaper clients after recently conducting a readership study of newspaper sections in five markets on behalf of a television network and its affiliate stations. "Scarborough had pursued a policy...

AMONG THE IMMIGRANT journalists killed on U.S. soil and featured in a report from the Committee to Protect journalists, eight are believed to be victims of political assassinations. Between 1981 and 1990, five Vietnamese-American journalists were...

UNITY '94 WAS the Woodstock of multiculturalism, an often moving and always invigorating demonstration of how American journalism is changing and growing. But all was not sweetness and light at the Atlanta conference. For at this first-ever meeting...

FACED WITH GROWING real estate ad competition, newspapers are taking a cue from their competitors and forming nontraditional alliances that offer advertisers a variety of marketing platforms. Six months ago, Phoenix Newspapers Inc., which operates...