A note from the President

• Troubling times stress our need to work on credibility, by Edward Seaton

Editorial with fangs

• Editorials with fangs, by Richard Aregood
• A proud moment of outrage, by Howell Raines
• Mr. McNamara's War, by Howell Raines
• Telling other people what to do, by Morris Thompson
• Coping with New Dangers in Old Asia, by Morris Thompson
• It's a sin to write a boring editorial, by Maura Casey
• A slight oversight at Connecticut Yankee, by Maura Casey
• Our mission: provoking thought, by Daniel Henninger
• 500 Drug Geniuses, by Daniel Henninger

Detecting fiction

• Detecting fiction, The Globe and New Republic fabrication troubles have led many to ask if the same fate could happen to them; editors and academics discuss how to prevent it, by Beverly Kees
• On detecting fiction

Perspectives on polls

• What editors should know about polls, If the 1996 election had been closer, some pollsters (and newspapers) would have predicted incorrectly; how and why is this so?, by Leo Bogart
• Bias in polls: It's not political, it's racial, Pew study finds that media polls don't understate conservative views, but may miss racial hostility, by Andrew Kohut
• To Learn more

First Amendment

• This old journalist isn't a Legionnaire any more, Group's stance on the Flag Desecration Act is an unacceptable attack on the very freedoms for which its members fought, by Pat Murphy
• The flag amendment

The AP at 150

• The AP: Playing it straight for 150 years, In 1848, an unlikely bunch of competing newspapers changed history when they decided to cooperate on gathering some news, by Calvin Woodward

Training

• How to keep training when budgets are tight, Small Newspaper Committee report finds that training is a minuscule amount of a newsroom budget; do you have some low-cost training ideas that don't show up on a budget?, by Joy Franklin
• To get the report

The copy desk

• ACES takes on copy editor 'disconnect', One of the final newsroom constituencies - and one of the unhappiest - has formed its own organization and its ready to tackle problems, by Gene Foreman

ASNE portrait

• 30 years of safeguarding journalism, Legal counsel Dick Schmidt has represented ASNE - and the First Amendment - since 1968, by Michael Gartner
• Dick Schmidt
• In his own words
• Being married to the First Amendment, by Ann Schmidt



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ASNE on the move

• Stinnett to retire from ASNE
• An open letter to all ASNE members from FOI chair Tash
• President skeptical about world code of ethics conference
• Keyes to represent ASNE on accrediting council
• A case for affirmative action
• Changes . . .
• Retirements . . .
• Death
• Attendees give 1998's Washington convention high marks
• 'Next Media' explored from ASNE Web site
• 1998-99 ASNE job fair dates announced
• Calendar