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Bloggers and Their First Amendment Protection

Web writing is a protected right, but more limits exist outside the United States.

Weblogs and Journalism: Back to the Future?

A blogger predicts that Weblogs might push Big Media back to better news reporting.

Journalists: Want to blog?

Take advantage of the newness of blogging to newsrooms and become a blogger before the publisher turns the assignment over to his/her favorite columnist. Just blog. Make a prototype. Show…

While the Watchdogs Slept

Five months went by before many in the press questioned the administration’s evidence for going to war.

Mainstreaming and Diversity Are Gannett’s Core Values

But these programs ‘are not without controversy.’

Determining the Value of Blogs

‘Without, say, the imprimatur of The New York Times, a blogger has only his or her reputation to recommend the work ….’

Making Race a Part of Local TV News Coverage

A news producer describes KRON’s reporting on race and the way this led to changes in how people work in the newsroom.

Fall 2003: Introduction

Black and white journalists, at times working as colleagues, at other times separately, have produced the first draft of our nation’s difficult history of race relations. In this issue of…

What makes a good medical reporter?

The late Victor Cohn, a former science editor of The Washington Post, said: “A good medical reporter is, first of all, a reporter after a story, not just a medical…

Portraits of the Living With the Dead

A photographer documents the transition from medical student to physician.