The American Editor, January-February 2000

Table of Contents

A note from the President

• Convergence doesn't change our local focus, by N. Christian Anderson III

Women in sports

• Measuring progress, Nearly 30 years after Title IX, women no longer have to change minds to prove they can play - or cover - sports; changing habits, though, has proven more difficult, by Leba Hertz
• Association for Women in Sports Media
• Observations
• Opening minds harder than opening doors, Although some still refuse to see, women have made great progress in sports journalism over the years, by Tracy Dodds
• Family issues come to fore for sportswriters, No longer focused on locker room access, women find that covering sports conflicts with having a family life, by Claire Smith
• New Yorker cartoon sends wrong message, Opponents of women in the locker room need only read Marisa Acocella's cartoon to get ammunition for their cause, by Stephanie Salter
• Do you know who I am?, A professional athlete reflects on what the rise of women's sports has meant to her, by Cynthia Cooper
• Young voices on women in sports

Personnel

• Why you can't find folks for the newsroom, The good economy is part of the picture, but the lower birth rates in the '70s play a part too; experts disagree on whether it's going to get better or not, by LaBarbara Bowman

Circulation

• Circulation numbers compel change, Whether good or bad, September's report reveals some innovations and disappointments at several newspapers; some circulation managers, editors team up to boost numbers, by Carl Crothers

Looking back

• On being a busybody for 50 years, Newspapers and journalism education have afforded me wonderful opportunities to poke around other people's business, by Gilbert Cranberg

Appreciation

• You're a good man, Charles Schulz, Of the hundreds of strips I've read, 'Peanuts' was one of the few that touched my emotions in a small way every day, by Gregory Favre

On copy editing

• Who would want to be a copy editor?, If you think copy editors are valuable, then treat them that way, by Ann Auman

An American Editor

• Creating community in Ventura, Tim Gallagher’s ties to family, the region are reflected in the Ventura County (Calif.) Star, which differentiates it, by John Temple
• Ventura County (Calif.) Star
• Tim Gallagher

The front page

• 4 'local' stories lead; national's at the bottom, by Karen Baker

Good Writing

• Innovations, like trains, need all aboard, If everyone in your organization doesn’t understand the importance of a big change, then they are the weak link in undoing that change, by Don Fry

ASNE on the move

•  UCCDA initiative advances to legislatures
• 10 to run for ASNE board
• Moving up and moving on
• Edward Cony dies
• Newspapers selected for Readership Impact study
• Calendar