The American Editor, March-May 1997

Table of Contents

An open letter to ASNE's members

• Taking bold steps to regain credibility, by Sandy Rowe, Edward Seaton, Chris Anderson, and Rich Oppel

The native american press

• Where the First Amendment doesn't apply: The Native American press*, *Or, where writing the truth about politicians can get you fired, by Karen Lincoln Michel

• Tribal editorial pressure was great even 160 years ago, the free speech issues Native American journalists are experiencing are nothing new; in 1828, a Cherokee newspaper's editor felt the same pressure, by Mark N. Trahant

• 'Pictures of Our Nobler Selves', by Mark N. Trahant

Freedom of information

• ASNE providing tool kits to celebrate FOI, by Diane H. McFarlin

• Making FOI a 'public issue,' not a 'media issue', Right to Know Week taught many Floridians just how much information is available because of sunshine laws; that support is crucial to stop legislator backpedaling, by Cindy Stiff

ASNE projects

• Institute for Journalism Excellence Fellows chosen, by Diana Mitsu Klos

Portrait of the president

• For presidency, Rowe has come to work, Lessons learned in Harrisonburg, Va., and later in Norfolk gave The Oregonian's editor a sense of her readers, of news, and of herself; her own diligence let her apply it, by Janet Weaver and David Zeeck

Lessons

• When Little Rock got burned, it learned, Anonymous source had been accurate every time, but it was when the Democrat-Gazette didn't corroborate the story that it was wrong. The lesson? Even if mom says it, check it out, by Griffin Smith Jr.

The write stuff

• When toys become news, heads become fun, Vinylsaurus, writer's own name make it into winning leads, by Brian Cooper

What would you do?

• Planting the seed of advertiser discontent, Walking the fine line between good journalism and good advertising can be tricky, especially with special sections, by Kathy Silverberg

Good writing

• Winning the space game in news writing, Being the 'nice editor' by telling reporters to 'write as long as they want' hurts them by not giving them limits, and hurts the editor with late, long stories, by Don Fry

ASNE on the move

• ASNE elects eight new directors

• Committee reports

• Compulsory disclosure of income

• Open courtrooms are Americans' right

• Protest of Puerto Rican governor's actions

• 72 new members elected to ASNE

• ASNE reports

• Job Fairs

• Calendar

Letters to The Editor

• Letters, Argument on the myth of the liberal slant is weak

• Letters, St. Louis, Allentown weren't first to go tabloid on Saturdays