Blogging From Iraq By Christopher Allbritton• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2003 With a borrowed laptop, rented satellite phone and reader-generated budget, an independent reporter sends back stories from the war. Read more
Why Journalists Can’t Talk Across Race By Dori J. Maynard• Diversity• September 15, 2003 ‘What we found is a conversation fraught with frustration and mistrust.’ Read more
A Guide to Various Weblogs Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2003 RELATED WEB LINKS Dan Gillmor – dangillmor.com Dave Barry – blogs.herald.com Today in the Sky – blogs.usatoday.com/sky/ Clergy Abuse Tracker – www.bishop-accountability.org Weblogging Pioneer The pioneer … Read more
Newsroom Diversity: Truth vs. Fiction By Bryan Monroe• Diversity• September 15, 2003 Before and after the Times’s debacle, American newspapers are still ‘telling our readers an incomplete, inaccurate story.’ Read more
Reporting in Southern Africa By Wilson Wanene• Opinion• September 15, 2003 A prominent white journalist revisits his reporting during apartheid and reflects on the news media’s work today. Read more
A Reporter Is Fired for Writing a Weblog By Steve Olafson• Journalist’s Trade• September 15, 2003 He wonders whether there is ‘a place for Weblogs in the Fourth Estate firmament.’ Read more
Contemplating the Relevancy of Age and Race By Errin Haines• Opinion• September 15, 2003 ‘My youth and race have been assets to my journalism during my budding career.’ Read more
A Racially Motivated Murder Leads to a Uniquely Reported Documentary By Marco Williams and Whitney Dow• Features• September 15, 2003 Whites interviewed whites. Blacks interviewed blacks. The stories came together. Read more
Racial Reverberations in Newsrooms After Jayson Blair By Neil Henry• Diversity• September 15, 2003 ‘The coverage of the scandal showed once again that African Americans are still not allowed to be seen as individuals when they fail.’ Read more
Reflecting on a Different Era in Political Journalism By Alex S. Jones• Opinion• September 15, 2003 Scotty Reston ‘and his peers felt comfortable making those choices based on their sense of what was best for the nation.’ Read more