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When Incumbents Run in House Races, The Press Stays Home

In Maryland, major news organizations ignored a close congressional race.
March 15, 2001

Let’s Do It Better: 2000 Honorees

Newspapers:Newspaper of the Year—NewsdayFor overall excellence in covering race and ethnicity and for developing a strategy to deal with the paper’s demographic challenge. Gabriel Escobar, city editor, The Washington Post…
March 15, 2001

Linking Content and Credibility to Newsroom Diversity

The Maynard Institute’s ‘Reality Checks’ seminar explores enduring Fault Lines.
March 15, 2001

Freedom of the Press Stops at the Schoolhouse Gate

The consequences of student press censorship could be devastating.
March 15, 2001

Truth in the Crossfire

In a brutal attack, ‘my truth…was dealt a mortal wound.’
March 15, 2001

Journalists Murdered, Attacked, Kidnapped and Threatened in Colombia

Between 1986 and 1995, 43 journalists were murdered in Colombia, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which suspects this number is an underestimate since many reported murders of…
March 15, 2001

Forgotten Stories About Forgotten People

‘Journalists could do a much better job reminding us of who we are supposed to be.’
March 15, 2001

Finding a Path to Cross a Racial Divide

Reporters began to listen rather than assume they knew what the story was.
March 15, 2001

Can What Ails Colombia Be Fixed?

As the war intensifies and U.S. money is sent, the story hits Page One.
March 15, 2001

Spring 2001: Political Journalism Introduction

Steve Nordlinger, a former reporter and editor at The (Baltimore) Sun, uses a Maryland example to illustrate how the media all but ignore coverage of Congressional races when incumbents run.
March 15, 2001