Articles

Why Has Journalism Abandoned Its Observer’s Role?

‘The mirrorer was viewed as fat to be trimmed, and was.’
June 15, 2001
Jon Franklin

The Absence of Memory Hurts Journalism

Short-term investors stifle investment in long-term and necessary research.
June 15, 2001
Philip Meyer

Refusing to Take the Easier Route

Journalists have an important social contract to uphold.
June 15, 2001
Mark G. Chavunduka

Journalists Need Help With Ethical Decisions

In today’s newsrooms, there are plenty to be made.
June 15, 2001
Carol Marin

Journalists Engage Readers By Learning Who They Are

Newsrooms should know more than marketers do about their audiences.
June 15, 2001
Melanie Sill

A Newspaper Strives to Make Its Coverage Complete

The new approach works but reporters feel constricted by its rigidity.
June 15, 2001
Mike Connor

Is Journalism Losing Its Place in the Boisterous Public Forum?

An editor finds an appetite for serious conversation. Media ought to respond.
June 15, 2001
Christine Chinlund

The Only or the Lonely

Latino journalists speak up about coverage, but doing so takes its toll.
June 15, 2001
Cindy Rodríguez

Summer 2001: Introduction

The battle over the ownership of NTV television—Russia’s largest non-government national TV network—appeared to Western eyes to be a story about the role that President Vladimir Putin was playing in…
June 15, 2001
Melissa Ludtke

Summer 2001: Words & Reflections Introduction

David Nyhan, a columnist with The Boston Globe, describes why—at a time of deepening public mistrust of journalism—there needed to be a way of recognizing and rewarding fairness. “Rare is…
June 15, 2001
Melissa Ludtke