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Good Questions Emerge Out of Good Information

Preparation and persistence are key ingredients for successful interviews.
June 15, 2002
M.L. Stein

Important Questions Happen Before Reporting Begins

‘Once we got that question in our minds, all of a sudden everything fell into place.’
June 15, 2002

Digging Where Journalists Don’t Dig

‘…it’s not what question we ask. It’s the fact that we ask at all.’
June 15, 2002

Future Possibilities

Walter Bender is the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, where he directs the Electronic Publishing Group and is a member of the laboratory’s News in the Future consortium.…
June 15, 2002

Alerting the Public to Journalism’s Challenges

Should news organizations look for ways to better communicate their business stories to their readers, as well as to other members of the public? And, if so, how do they…
June 15, 2002

How to Reach Wall Street With a Different Message

Two books hint at how and why this can and should be done.
June 15, 2002
Philip Meyer

The Tug of Wall Street

Few words were uttered more often during this conference than “Wall Street.” What follows are edited excerpts from various sessions, all of which focus attention on the tug that Wall…
June 15, 2002

What Does Quality Mean?

Quality can be an elusive term. It is one that conference participants struggled to explain, define and find ways to put into practice. What follows are edited excerpts that speak…
June 15, 2002

The Newspaper Business: Now and in the Years Ahead

No topic received as much attention as the newspaper business. Observations were interspersed throughout the various sessions. Some of those comments are now brought together in a series of edited…
June 15, 2002

Internet Interactions

Participants had views and experiences to share about the intersection of mainstream media and the Internet. Edited excerpts of some of those comments follow.RELATED ARTICLE“Web Sites Increasingly Scoop Their Parent…
June 15, 2002