Features

When the Public Speaks, Do Journalists Listen?

‘I don’t recognize myself or anyone I know in your newspaper.’
June 15, 2001
Geneva Overholser

Press Failure to Watchdog Can Have Devastating Consequences

Every news organization should monitor the powerful in the public interest.
June 15, 2001
Murrey Marder

Investigative Journalism Can Still Thrive at Newspapers

It requires fierce determination, hard work, some guerrilla tactics, and thick skin.
June 15, 2001
Loretta Tofani

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