Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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Here are some of the journalism luminaries contributing to the Project
on the State of the American Newspaper:
Peter Arnett is an international correspondent for CNN, for whom
he has covered the Gulf War and numerous other major stories. For 10 years
he covered the Vietnam War for The Associated Press, winning a Pulitzer
Prize in 1966. He will examine what has happened to foreign coverage in
mainstream newspapers.
Ken Auletta writes the Annals of Communications column for The
New Yorker and is the nation’s best-known observer of the media. He has
written seven books, most recently "The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information
Superhighway." His profile of Tribune Co. launched the series in May’s
American Journalism Review.
Cynthia Gorney was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1975
to 1991, and was South American Bureau chief from 1980 to 1982. Her book
"Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars," was published
in February. She will write about the San Francisco Bay Area newspaper
war.
Charles Layton and Mary Walton, husband and wife, will
detail in the July/August issue how newspapers are retreating from state
government coverage. Layton, an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for
20 years, has covered legislatures in Louisiana and Delaware. Walton, a
longtime Inquirer reporter and magazine writer, has written four books,
most recently "Car: A Drama of the American Workplace."
Geneva Overholser recently left The Washington Post after serving
as ombudsman for three years. For six years she was editor of The Des Moines
(Iowa) Register, and this fall she will begin writing a syndicated column
for the Washington Post Writers Group. She will examine newsroom management.
William Prochnau is a former reporter for The Seattle Times and
The Washington Post. His most recent book is the acclaimed "Once Upon a
Distant War," a narrative account of the first American journalists in
Vietnam. He is writing about Thomson’s American newspapers.
Roy Reed has written for The New York Times, and for 16 years
taught journalism at the University of Arkansas. He wrote "Faubus: The
Life and Times of an American Prodigal" on former Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus.
Reed is profiling the A.H. Belo Corp.
James V. Risser is director of the Knight Fellows program at
Stanford University. As Washington correspondent for The Des Moines (Iowa)
Register, he won Pulitzer Prizes in 1976 and 1979 for reporting on agricultural
and environmental issues. His article on independent newspapers appeared
in June.
