The American Editor, April 2001

Table of Contents

A note from the President

• Privacy, open government and Earnhardt, by Richard A. Oppel

Leading in tough times

• Thankless job of doing more with less, by Mark Lett

Journalism education

• A balancing act at Columbia University, Closing Al Gore’s lecture course to the press was meant to protect academic freedom, but it touched off a firestorm of protest about ‘gagged’ students, by Tom Goldstein

• Gore flap the latest in a series of clashes between academic and press freedom, by Tom Goldstein

Portrait of the president

• Tough kid on crutches laughs last and loudest, by Gregory Favre

• Tim McGuire

Transitions

• Observations from a ‘recovering journalist’,Why the media should care more about childhood development, what we should have learned from the 2000 election and looking at the business as a business, by David Lawrence Jr.

Writing

• Making the effort to promote good writing, by Cynthia Tucker

• Institutionalize excellence and give reporters the latitude to take risks, by Lyle Harris

• An hour with a writing coach makes her focus on the beginning of the end, by Kelly Daniel

• Writing competes with “Survivor” as water-cooler foder, thanks to local award, by Elliot Krieger

• Emulate the better Gettysburg address, Long, windy stories threaten to be the death of newspapers, by Clark Hoyt

  
  

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Good writing

• Start writers right — on the copy desk, by Don Fry

Online journalism

• Sifting the dot.com wreckage for lessons, by Kurt Greenbaum

Pages across America

• Involve the designer early for great pages, by David Yarnold

Ask Dr. Ink

• Compromising position gives Doc a flashback, Free advice about free M&Ms on Air Force One

ASNE on the move

• ASNE awards recognize excellence
• Calendar