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Race Intrudes on a Newspaperman’s Career

Ted Poston: Pioneering American JournalistKathleen HaukeUniversity of Georgia Press. 326 Pages. $29.95.In today’s age of hyper-speed journalism, where news cycles change hourly and consumers can get stories at the click…
March 15, 1999

Foreign Correspondents Transform Their Coverage Into Books

Rwandan refugees board a cargo plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that will take them back to Kigali, Rwanda. A mother sits next to her daughter who died…
March 15, 1999

Competing with Cyberspace: The Key is Reliability

The Virginia Press Association invited me to their annual meeting to talk about the future. Specifically, they wanted to talk about how newspapers compete in the world of cyberspace. The…
March 15, 1999

Media and Juvenile Violence: The Connecting Threads

There are some important lessons we’ve learned about how the coverage of violence—especially juvenile violence—influences the way many of us think about teenagers and crime. Related Article “What Numbers Can…
December 15, 1998

Inside the Juvenile Justice System

Lifting the Veil of Secrecy
December 15, 1998

Riding the Crime Wave

Why Words We Use Matter So Much
December 15, 1998

Mapping Children’s Roadway to Violence: The Early Years

“I went to Vermont and showed Ernie this story, as it appeared in the magazine. I started from the back and showed him the last picture with his mom. She’s…
December 15, 1998

The Superpredator Script

The funeral of a Boston youth. Photo by Stan Grossfeld.There is little doubt that television coverage contributes to the public hysteria about youth crime. In particular, local television news plays…
December 15, 1998

Restraint and Empathy Defined Reporting in Pearl, Mississippi

Pearl High School students pay homage to their fallen classmates during a candlelight memorial service held at Paul Truitt Memorial Baptist Church. Photo by Vickie King/The Clarion-Ledger.Reports of shootings at…
December 15, 1998

Measuring the Effects of Changing the Way Violence Is Reported

Reporting on crime and violence has been a staple in the newspaper diet since before the pennycress. In that time, one by-product of this coverage has remained consistent: readers have…
December 15, 1998