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March-April

Published: May 03, 1999
Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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Table of Contents


A note from the President


Newsroom love


Using narrative style


On journalism

  • On being an editor in a business-obsessed era, A newspaper editor's craft is more significant than journalistic fads, management jargon and the fool's gold of the stock price, but it takes faith and leadership to succeed, by John Carroll

Connecting with the community


Tough calls

  • When do you hold the news (or delay it)?, Development planners are notorious for asking newspapers to hold what they know until the deal is final; we asked editors if they would wait, by Mary Lou Wendell

ASNE portrait


Good writing

  • Keep your sentences fit and active, Despite how they speak, careful writers should work in the active voice, it specifies the actors in a sentence - good or bad, by Don Fry

On copy editing


ASNE on the move

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