Nieman Reports
Summer 2000
Election 2000: Politicians and the Press

It’s the tendency to focus on the celebrity, the character, not serious character but personality traits of political figures that trivializes the political process. So the focus of this discussion will be on issues which might be overlooked or underreported in the 2000 campaigns. Issues like those that David Broder spoke of last May when he wrote in his column that it’s quite a trick for something to grow larger and at the same time become more invisible. Broder was talking about the health care issue then, but he might just as well have been talking about any one of a number of issues that loom ill-defined in the background of the campaign rhetoric that focuses on youthful indiscretions or political money.
– Nieman Curator Bill Kovach opening the political Watchdog Journalism conference
Watchdog Conference
Journalist's Trade
Words & Reflections
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Summer 2000: Words & Reflections Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke
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Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today?
By Jessica Dorman
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Coverage of Media Mergers
By Norman Solomon
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The Sound You Hear Is Silence
By Morton Mintz
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Designing and Distributing the Survey
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News Stories about Corporate Crime and Misconduct
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Against the Commercial Impulse
By Jeffrey Scheuer
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‘Journalism and Democracy Are Names for the Same Thing.’
By James W. Carey
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Can the Press Win Back the Public’s Confidence?
By Lorie Hearn
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‘Things Are Not OK.’
By Jim Tharpe
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Why Should the Public Trust Journalists?
By Cara DeVito
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Journalism and Citizenship
By Ellen Hume
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Examining the United Nations’ Role in Settling Conflicts
By Roy Gutman
International Journalism
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Summer 2000: International Journalism Introduction
By Melissa Ludtke
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A Serbian Journalist Answers Critics
By Dragoljub Zarkovic
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Does Journalism Matter?
By Ardian Arifaj
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The Troubles We’ve Seen
By Eddie Holt
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Media Censorship During ‘the Troubles’
By Ed Moloney
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500 Words Is Rarely Enough to Tell the Story
By Shawn Pogatchnik
Masthead
- Publisher
- Bill Kovach
- Editor
- Melissa Ludtke
- Assistant Editor
- Lois Fiore
- Editorial Assistant
- Adam Reilly
- Design Editor
- Deborah Smiley
- Business Manager
- Cheryl Scantlebury
- Cover Story
- By Deirdra Funcheon