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A Desire to Tell People What They Ought to Know

Salant, CBS, and The Battle for the Soul of American Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S. SalantCompiled and Edited by Susan and Bill BuzenbergEastview Press. 331 Pages. $27.Dick Salant, the…
March 15, 1999

Spring 1999: Introduction

In asking young journalists to write about their experiences, what we wanted to provide was a forum in which they could express their views, concerns and ideas about the way…
March 15, 1999

Hong Kong’s Press

While Debate Rages About Media Ethics, Self-Censorship Quietly Thrives
March 15, 1999

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

Can Business Reporting Become a Positive New Force In Foreign News Coverage?

This is excerpted from a December 18 Nieman seminar in which Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, offered his perspective on foreign news coverage.Question: Why…
March 15, 1999

Are Minorities Getting a Fair Shot At Journalism Jobs?

The Answer is “No”: Now What Can be Done?
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

Unraveling the Mystery of Vanishing Foreign News

Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and DeathSusan D. MoellerRoutledge. 390 Pages. $27.50.Any reporter working in the twilight of the Cold War and into the 1990’s knows…
March 15, 1999

If Birds Were Reporters, What Would Their Eyes Reveal?

This image of Birkenau death camp taken in August 1944 shows prisoners lined up at gas chambers and other parts of the camp. Though photographed from an airplane, the image…
March 15, 1999

Spring 1999: Books Introduction

As foreign reporting struggles to find its foothold in the news that Americans watch, listen to and read, reporters write books about human tragedies they observe. They hope someone will…
March 15, 1999