A note from the President

• Raise credibility and you'll boost reader connection, by N. Christian Anderson III

TV books

• TV books: Keeping them useful in a confusing landscape, by Bart Pollock
• What does the future look like?, by Mike Connor
• Redesign in haste, take angry calls in leisure, Take care when changing anything in your television book; consider what others have done, listen to readers' thoughts and make sure you and your team are ready for the calls, by Dan Norman
• Bad TV books will feel heat; is yours good?
• Words of experience from Gene Roberts, A top journalist and a veteran at overhauling newspaper TV books on why they're important, by Mike Connor
• Tips for making your TV book tighter

Diversity

• Journalists honored for coverage of race, Columbia University workshop brings together print, broadcast people who have made headway in telling the story of a changing America, by Sig Gissler
• Are you one of the best?
• Print honor roll
• Meeting of the minds starts a conversation, Improving coverage of ethnicity and race was a given, but the innovative thoughts and long-term commitment are most encouraging of all, by Liz Llorente
• Taking it all home
• Get past the obvious when covering race, by Robert Barnes
• Unity '99 energizes participants, Despite rough-going during planning, the second Unity convention showed thousands of attendees what they have in common: a love of journalism and diversity, by Gilbert Bailon

Accuracy

• Where do you run your corrections? Our unscientific study found that most newspapers put them on the back of the front page, by Arlene Levinson

Time management

• You don't owe PR people anything, It's their job to call you about their client, but you don't have to waste your time listening to them; just be polite about it, by Ed Williams

The front page

• Milwaukee: Of Packers, polls and ex-POW, by Paul Sevart

An American Editor

• Keeping an open door in Alabama, Accessibility - by the staff and the community - is key to Kathy Silverberg's style; but it doesn't keep her out of controversy, by Allen Parsons
• TimesDaily
• Kathy Silverberg

Good writing

• Finding the holes in your editing process, by Don Fry

On copy editing

• Hold your fire!, Some suggestions on mediating between the desks, by John McIntyre
• ACES conference

Book review

• When 'feeding the beast' is all that matters, Using the Clinton-Lewinsky matter as an example, 'Warp Speed' finds that the pressure to keep things entertaining or new is becoming more important than ethical journalism, by Mindy McAdams
• Warp Speed
• The appendices

ASNE on the move

• ASNE helps editors find minority candidates
• 'Retired' members take on new challenges
• International Committee hosting editor trip to Brazil in late October
• ASNE members on the move
• We need your news and pictures
• Improve your newspaper with ASNE tools
• Newspaper internship poster and Web site being updated
• Calendar