A note from the President

• The three Rs begin with reading, It's back to basics and into the future with the ASNE/NAA readership initiative, by N. Christian Anderson

Technology

• Technology: The story that may affect us most, Editors must ponder what news is and how to deliver it best; Andy Grove doesn't think we have too much time to find out, by Scott B. Anderson

Credibility

• Credibility is built by a paper, not just a newsroom, Since circumstances beyond the newsroom's control affect the reputation of a newspaper, it's important to think about rebuilding credibility as a companywide project, by William F. Woo
• Public and press differ on credibility
• A look at the credibility test-site newspaper programs

Reflecting the community

• Demographically challenged, editors tiptoe as they talk, While San Francisco presents editors with a model of ethnic diversity, they find accomplishing the same feat in newsrooms a formidable task; discussing it is easier, by Sanders LaMont

Convention experience

• Convention 'add-ons' get mostly high marks, by Nanya Friend

Recruiting

• Innovative job fair a good start, by Wanda S. Lloyd

First impressions

• Thankfully, I'm left with many questions, by Margaret Wolf Freivogel
• Fascinating contradictions kept me interested, by Susan Bischoff
• Learning from our mistakes, by Mike Slaughter

Diversity

• The uphill battle of diversifying newsrooms, Even if all of the minority print journalism graduates in America applying to newspapers were hired, the newsroom figures wouldn't budge, by Lee Stinnett
• To learn more

Portrait of the president

• Anderson to blaze new trails at ASNE, 1999-2000 president - the publisher if The Orange County Register - offers innovative ideas, can-do style, by Scott Smith
• N. Christian Anderson III

Good writing

• Writers should avoid the perverted pyramid, by Don Fry

On copy editing

• Copy editors want to help tackle credibility, Our goals are the same and we have ideas to help, by Janet Cleaveland

ASNE on the move

• Officers advance; 7 new directors elected
• ASNE calls for records in inquiry of slain journalist
• Journalism education fellows named
• Minority employment inches upward in newspapers
• More data online
• Diversity action plan adopted
• Defense resolution passed
• ASNE welcomes 60 new members to its ranks
• Deaths
• Friends of ASNE die
• Nurture a local high school
• Calendar