A note from the President

• Copy editors' meeting inspires me about future, by Sandy Rowe

• Sacred cows, Covering the company in a company town, by Bill Sternberg

 
• Calling for dams to be torn down for salmon, Boise paper's editorial board does cost analysis of 4 federal dams and concludes that fish would bring a better return; stance not so popular in Northwest, by Karen Baker

On language

• Thankfully, papers have spared us trashy language, If foul words are what people want, they'll have no trouble finding them on the radio, TV or in movies, by Watson Sims

Privacy

• What photographers can, can't do pursuing a person, In wake of Princess Diana's death, lawyer examines U.S. cases concerning covering people vs. privacy rights, by Alice Neff Lucan, Esq.

The copy desk

• Copy editors group has a bright beginning, First meeting of ACES - the American Copy Editors  Society - goes well in North Carolina; they intend to solve problems, not whine about them, by Craig Branson
• About Aces, by Craig Branson
• What copy editors want managers to know, by Craig Branson
• This is a great time for copy editors, To be useful, information will always need to be digested, whether the future of media lies online, in print or somewhere else, by Bill Connolly
• Cross-training, rotation leads to less stress, Rather than having set jobs every day, copy editors in Oklahoma City switch roles often, which distributes pressure more evenly, by David Craig

An American Editor

• Editor leads Grand Forks beyond The Flood of '97, Disaster was defining moment for Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald and city it serves; Mike Jacobs' goal before, during and afterwards: 'readers deserve the best paper we can put out', by Janet Weaver

The Write Stuff

• Pulling readers in with great leads, by Brian Cooper

Good writing

• Give yourself permission to free your creativity, by Kevin McGrath

Book review

• How did news and wire jargon come to be?, by Louis Perez

ASNE on the move

• Convention reception to be held at Air & Space Museum
• Small paper critiques return this year
• Legal counsel Schmidt honored
• ASNE joins online free-speech groups
• ASNE to be represented at S. African editors' meeting
• ASNE says goodbye to three longtime members
• Members in new places
• Some not-so-new changes
• Calendar

Freedom of Information

• A new threat to FOI: Closing database access, With surveys showing that privacy ranks higher in importance than censorship, officials respond by clamping down, by Andrew Glass