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Excerpt From Remarks

There has been more than a little talk lately about how well the editorial and business sides of journalism work together. Since I am at least in part the cause…
June 15, 1999

Essay

“The chief business of the American people is business.” So it was back in 1925 when President Calvin Coolidge offered that now famous aphorism about America’s fevered, overreaching economy in…
June 15, 1999

Essay

Once upon a time the editor of a daily newspaper edited.There’s little risk of that happening now. The top newsroom manager probably has a title like vice president and executive…
June 15, 1999

Excerpt From Letter

… It is my utter conviction that newspapers are a business and, since their production is a team process, no department can be immune from the fact. They are expensive…
June 15, 1999

Reflections of Balkan Journalists

When the Personal Becomes Part of One’s Profession
June 15, 1999

Images and Words From the Balkan Conflict

An elderly ethnic Albanian woman from Kosovo comforts a small girl in a school in Bob, a village some 50 kms. south of Pristina, as another weeps, Tuesday, March 2,…
June 15, 1999

A Ugandan Journalist Is Taken to Court By his Government

Mounting a Defense to a Charge of ‘Publication of False News’
June 15, 1999

An Albanian Newspaper Is Reborn

Kosovo Refugee Journalists Refuse to Let Their Reporting Be Silenced
June 15, 1999

Portraying Poverty in the Face of Newsroom Pressures

Demand More Time. Agitate for More Space. And Revisit the Subject Often.
June 15, 1999

Looking Inside the Business of Journalism

Economic Pressures Create New Challenges for Journalists
June 15, 1999