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Editorial Pages: Why Courage Is Hard to Find

The Star Tribune published strong editorials about Bush administration truth telling when few other papers did, and an editor there explores some reasons why.
June 15, 2006

The Muslim Cartoon Controversy Exposed an Absence of Courage

‘… the continuing timidity of the American media looked increasingly like cowardice, appeasement, or better-you-than-me cynicism.’
June 15, 2006

When Bearing Witness Overrides a Reporter’s Fear

‘… courage is not me, a clunky reporter clutching a notebook and treading on people’s lives, trying to get them to open up their souls.’
June 15, 2006

Going to Tell What Others Have Forgotten

A war correspondent seeks out people who live in dangerous war zones to tell their stories and finds that ‘by sharing the fear it helps a lot.’
June 15, 2006

Finding Perfect Pitch

‘… the stronger their facts, the more vivid their detail, the less reliant they are on the poetry.’
March 15, 2006

As Health Care Gaps Grow, Coverage Shrinks

Stories about the have-nots don’t ‘fit into today's paradigm of health news.’
March 15, 2006

Old Newspapers Lead Students to New Discoveries

A valuable collection of historic newspapers is used to put ‘journalistic skills to work on news long dead.’
March 15, 2006

Resources for Midlevel Editors

This list of books, articles and Web sites has been compiled by Carl Sessions Stepp, a former assigning editor and now journalism professor at the University of Maryland. Books About…
March 15, 2006

The Coverage of Soviet Dissidents by Western Journalists

KGB memos about Andrei Sakharov reveal the government’s increasing fear of him as his ideas received press attention in the West.
March 15, 2006

Spring 2006: The Job of Frontline Editor Introduction

The frontline editor’s job is one that, in the words of Jacqui Banaszynski, who holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, “has expanded…
March 15, 2006