A Note From the President

• Writing awards push us to do better each day, by Robert H. Giles

Journalism Values Online

• Moving beyond "Code first, ask questions later: While Web publishing offers tantalizing possibilities, your reputation is paramount; retain it by tackling hard ethical questions now, before they're so sticky, by Fred Mann

 

 

• Online journalism ethics: A new frontier: Questions greatly outnumber the answers in exploring the ethical issues and values of the new media, by Joann Byrd

 

 

• What is the Journalism Values Institute?

Copy editing conference

• Solutions brought to "copy desk problem": Copy editors come together, discuss "blown-up" desks, the need for strong leadership in newsrooms, the quest for quality and possibilities for a copy editor organization, by Charles Higginson

 

 

• Pagination without alienation

 

 

• Online opportunites

 

 

• What's next?

 

 

• Tradition in transition

Journalism educators in the newsroom

• Institute for Journalism Excellence participants

 

 

• Host an educator

 

 

• Reconnecting j-schools with newspapers: Newsroom experience brought back the rush of reporting, but advertising and circulation taught me a lot about the business, by Nancy Day

 

 

• I was the oldest intern, by Philip Patterson

 

 

• Some fascinating changes, by Tina Lesher

 

 

• She worked like mad, but Atex mocked her, by Pam Coffman

 

 

• A positive experience that opened my eyes, by Dorothy Bowles

Diversity

• J-schools share ideas on recruiting, retaining minority journalists, by Susan Denley and James Clark

Connecting with readers through phones

• Connecting with readers
• I connect with San Jose readers in column, not daily listing of number, by Jerry Ceppos

Improving Newspapers

• Exploring more than one right answer: Combining "new journalism" with "old values" can be controversial, but finding multiple paths to the same goal is nothing new for newspaper editors, by Phil Currie

An American Editor

• Agent of change moves to St. Louis
• Newspaper: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Cole C. Campbell
• The Post-Dispatch platform

The write stuff

• Keep the reader with interesting perspective, by Brian Cooper

Good writing

• Tell the story through a character's eyes: Points of view that differ from the standard, detached newspaper story make readers stay with a story just as the story will stay with them, by Kevin McGrath

What would you do

• A staffer has found his own Internet sights: Pornography example demonstrates the importance of newsroom policies on staff online usage; harassment issues exist for many sites, by Kathy Silverberg

 

 

• Here's the problem

On journalism

• I was a civic journalist before it was cool: By investing my newspaper's efforts on improving Bethlehem, Pa., the city improved, by John Strohmeyer

ASNE on the move

• Since you asked..., by Lee Stinnett
• ASNE convention to start, end earlier
• ASNE, press association unite on DMV information law
• Deaths
• ASNE for Cuba bureau
• New member
• ASNE people
• Calendar

Letters to the Editor

• Newly free journalists can learn from Woo's message of humanity, by George J. Lockwood