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‘The Monica Thing’

How would Scotty Reston and his generation of Washington reporters have handled the story? His biographer looks for answers.
June 15, 1999

Constructing the Welfare Story Brick By Brick

Write Up; Write Down; Write Fast; Write Slow
June 15, 1999

Newspapers Arrive at Economic Crossroads

Which Way They Go Could Depend on What Journalists Know and How They React
June 15, 1999

Portraying Poverty in the Face of Newsroom Pressures

Demand More Time. Agitate for More Space. And Revisit the Subject Often.
June 15, 1999

The Price of Hope: Investigating Disparities Among Rich and Poor Schools

Photo by Diedra Laird, The Charlotte Observer.For years, parents and educators in poverty-ridden pockets of the South sensed the public schools were shortchanging their children. And they were right. Their…
March 15, 1999

By Being There, a Reporter Captures a Rare View of Middle School

Ten young teens draped themselves over chairs, forming a sloppy circle in the center of an empty middle-school classroom. I sat on the edge of the circle, an outsider looking…
March 15, 1999

Teaching Journalism by Adhering to Unchanging Standards

Pages from Gene Graham’s Nieman year sketchbook.Confession: I actually went to journalism school. And now I teach in one. But I’ve also spent plenty of time in newsrooms, a dual…
March 15, 1999

Falling in Love With Words and How Journalists Use Them

I don’t particularly like thinking about what I might do after I earn my master’s degree in journalism. J-school, for all the work and worry, is more fun than any…
March 15, 1999

When Mediocrity Beckons

A newsroom for journalism students. Photo courtesy Medill School of Journalism.Most of us know the frustration of desire outpacing ability. But what about coping with the reverse? What happens if…
March 15, 1999

Golf Offers a Window on Our Changing World

Preferred Lies and Other Tales: Skimming the Cream of a Life in SportsJack WhitakerSimon and Schuster. 272 Pages. $24.There is a movie scene that haunts just about every serious sportswriter…
March 15, 1999