A note from the President

• Counting on you: Please participate in ASNE's census, by N. Christian Anderson III

The 2000 campaign

• Campaign 2000: Editors plan evolutionary improvement in coverage, not a revolution, by Beverly Kees

The 2000 election

• 'More' characterizes political coverage so far: Inside-the-Beltway editors say compressing the campaign schedule has meant more stories earlier about the candidates, by Ellen Shearer
• Front-loaded season changes dynamics: With the race crammed into just three months, fund raising and voter unawareness become much more important to tackle quickly, by Bill Sternberg
• A candidate's 'irrelevant' personal past: Scandal - and what we find scandalous - tells us a lot about our society, and often foreshadows what is to come, as Gennifer Flowers demonstrated, by Gail Collins

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Press freedom

• The new code words for censorship: Wise to the bad PR that outright murder of journalists and seizure of press brings, governments are developing legislative 'solutions' that accomplish the same thing, by Marilyn Greene

Credibility

• Credibility more tangible at smaller newspapers: Smaller newspapers face the twin hurdles of being tarred as 'The Media' and not having the resources to fact-check, edit and report better, by Rick Doyle
• Examples of addressing credibility at small newspapers

Gay and lesbian journalists

• New survey examines gay and lesbian views: USC assessing the views of mainstream gay and lesbian journalists on working conditions and coverage of issues; the first such survey was published by ASNE in 1990, by Leroy Aarons
• To get a survey

Explaining ourselves

• Addressing reader concerns via a redesign: By explaining x-height, white space and other design vagaries in language people understand - the Sun Sentinel answered the old 'use bigger type' complaint, by Earl Maucker

The front page

• Floods move down, but local coverage dominates, by Melanie Sill

An American Editor

• Respecting readers, staffers in Florida: At The Ledger in Lakeland, Skip Perez's ability to listen complements the daily scramble for news, by Susan Kille
• Louis M. "Skip" Perez
• The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.

On copy editing

• ACES conference brings 500 copy editors together: Dallas gathering provides extensive professional training for copy editors, by Hank Glamann
• ACES 2000

ASNE on the move

• Convention 2000 shaping up nicely
• Changes
• Deaths
• Hizzonner
• An announcement
• Human Resources Committee update
• Former presidents win awards
• Calendar