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Summer 2000: International Journalism Introduction

In the fall of 1999, Dragoljub Zarkovic, Editor in Chief of the Serbian independent weekly VREME, walked out of a conference convened by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in…

‘How I Hate the Media.’

For Jesse Ventura, disdain for media attention is selective.

Blame Abe Lincoln and Steve Forbes

But don’t expect journalists to give second tier candidates equal attention.

Endnote

Bill Kovach received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University March 9, 2000. Here are excerpts from his…

500 Words Is Rarely Enough to Tell the Story

When one of them is Ireland

Playing the Celebrity Game

Candidates transform themselves into entertainers.

Watching New Hampshire From Far Away

In California, not all was as it had appeared.

Political Journalism, the Way It Used to Be

Jack Germond remembers the different old days.
Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’

A leading Irish journalist ponders the consequences.

Are Political Reporters a Vanishing Breed?

After 40 years on the beat, one journalist thinks they might be.