FINDING OUR PLACE ON THE WEB

• Web redefines who an editor is: In an effort to capture readers, journalists turn from generalists into niche-players, by Scott Whiteside
• Some advice on Web site economics: Lose money, learn to love it; These money-losing investments could be a primary revenue source for newspapers in just a few years; the key is to stick with it, by Howard Weaver
• Web newspapers hook kids better than the paper kind: For homework or baseball scores, children like using computers, not newspapers - and will continue to do so, by Ellen Pearlman
• Training the digital press corps: College journalism educators join the computer revolution despite budget cuts, staff shortages, by Donald M. Harting
  • Who's doing what

• Free markets, free speech perplex Russian journalists: Though free to write the truth, newspaper employees struggle for profit and readers; U.S. newspaper managers are helping bridge the gap, by Ann Hurst
  • Sister city/newspaper pairs
  • About the program

STUDENT PRESS

• Student journalism after Hazelwood: After a brief free period in the '70s and '80s, the high court's 1988 decision put a chill on young journalists; there is hope now from states that adopt more protective laws, by Mark Goodman
• Support your local student journalists: Those students could be your future employees - and they are also your future readers, by Pat Graff

TWO SIDES TO A STORY

• Two newspapers, two sides to the same story: The Orlando Sentinel and Miami Herald covered the case of a convicted murderer - and came to opposite conclusions - because they assumed different things, by David Barstow
• Miami's Gene Miller: Judge's retrial order speaks for itself
• Orlando's John Haile: Witness is a liar, but there's other proof

• What the best writers learn, what they can teach us, by Christopher Scanlan

• Program watches press freedoms around the world, by Robert H. Giles

• Good writing: Examples and ideas on coaching; Unprickling your Newsroom's attitude, by Don Fry
• The write stuff: Winning heads and leads, by Brian Cooper

AN AMERICAN EDITOR

• An American editor: Profile of an editor making a mark; Making Web papers routine in Raleigh: Bruce Siceloff, the News & Observer's online editor, hopes newspapers can become more relevant and that feedback to journalists will link them more closely to their readers, by Wade Rawlins
  • Bruce Siceloff
  • Advice for prospective online editors

• Articles worth reading: Journalism that people are talking about; Mergers, the Internet and college journalism, by Susan H. Miller
• Book Review: Journalism as depicted in print; Anti-Gannett crusade short on evidence, by Sig Gissler

ASNE ON THE MOVE

• Events on the horizon for ASNE
• Editors, judges hold conference
• ASNE/Freedom Forum join in initiative to strengthen high school newspapers
• ASNE people
• Overholser, Westphal wed
• Journalism giants die
• Short courses
• Job fairs

• Letter: Raines' Public Journalism stance is legitimate

• Liberal bias isn't the problem, cultural bias is: Political outlook doesn't enter the equation when covering most news events, but cultural bias does and has alienated many journalists from their audience, by David Awbrey
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