Cinematic Treats.(DROP CAP)(movie genres)(Brief article)
While Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood triumphed with their string
of Spaghetti Westerns, filmmakers have ignored the potential of other
genres of pasta cinema:
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Gnocchi . . .
Correction.(Correction notice)
In "Kind of Confidential" (June/July), AJR said that the
San Francisco Chronicle reporters who covered the BALCO case had been
criticized for printing statements by the attorney--who later said . . .
The view from the woods: and getting a new perspective.(ABOVE THE
FOLD)(newspaper advertising)
Here's the news from a remote corner of Warrick County,
Indiana. After a solid month without rain, three straight days of summer
showers sent the local corn crop shooting up as if on steroids. . . .
Politics 2.008: how will the Internet influence the presidential
election?(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
In April, Barack Obama was creaming the competition in the MySpace
popularity contest. Then his campaign decided to wrest the site from the
volunteer who had run it for the past two-and-a-half . . .
A fading taboo: paper by paper, advertising is making its way
onto the nation's front pages and section fronts.
Sometimes they snake across the bottom of the page as relatively
unobtrusive six-column strips. Sometimes they catch the eye more
forcefully as right-corner boxes. And sometimes they scream . . .
Washington Post.(DROP CAP)(Tom Shales' opinion)(Brief
article)
"[W]atching [Paris] Hilton for an hour was in its way more
edifying and encouraging than enduring more hateful rants from publicity
hound Ann Coulter on MSNBC's 'Hardball With Chris
Matthews' the . . .
A fond farewell to a great one: AJR's managing editor joins
USA Today.(FULL COURT PRESS)(American Journalism Review's Rachel
Smo
It's hard for me to imagine AJR without Rachel Smolkin.
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For the past five years, Rachel has had at least one major feature
article in all but one issue of the magazine. . . .
Digesting "The Daily Show".(LETTERS)(Letter to the
editor)
Rachel Smolkin's piece on Jon Stewart ("What the
Mainstream Media Can Learn from Jon Stewart," June/July) should be
required reading in every American newsroom. Little wonder that our
readers and . . .
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. . .
Rolling the dice: media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal
news online will bolster their newspapers' futures. But early
It seemed like a good idea at the time. With blogging flourishing
and citizen journalism just budding, Mark Potts and Susan DeFife thought
they had a winning formula for a new kind of journalistic . . .
Locked in limbo: an Associated Press contract photographer has
been incarcerated in Iraq by the U.S.--but not charged--since Apr
Fifteen months after arresting Bilal Hussein, a contract
photographer for the Associated Press, the U.S. military still
hasn't filed charges against him or made public its evidence.
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Local focus.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
I felt somewhat disgruntled after reading two pieces in the
April/May 2007 issue of AJR--"Facing the Future" by John
Morton and "Really Local" by Donna Shaw.
Lately, it appears coverage of . . .
A private affair: Sam Zell's winning bid is the most
promising resolution for the beleaguered Tribune Co.(THE NEWSPAPER
BUSINESS
After months of uncertainty, the Tribune Co. drama seems headed to
the best possible outcome for the company, its employees and especially
its journalism--going private.
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The upside of anger: David Halberstam, the distinguished author
known, among other things, for his groundbreaking reporting on t
David Halberstam filled a room. An auditorium. A dining room. He
stood 6'3" with broad shoulders and a craggy face. But it
would have been the same if he had slumped at 5'6" with a
double-chin. He . . .
Kind of confidential: with federal judges rejecting
reporters' promises to keep silent about conversations with
confidential sou
In late March, Jim Taricani met for the first time with an
anonymous source, who showed the investigative reporter some documents.
The papers were critical to a story he was covering. The two . . .
Shifting Sands.(THE BEAT)(Interview)
Ken Sands is switching Washingtons, trading the wilds of the Inland
Northwest for the wilds of the Beltway. The online publisher for
Spokane, Washington's Spokesman-Review is moving to . . .
Selling out page one.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Your illuminating look at "A Fading Taboo" (June/July)
reminded me of the question I fielded years ago from a longtime
advertiser: "What would you charge to place my ad on your front
page?"
. . .
Playing on TV's turf: newspapers are ramping up their online
video offerings. Will that endanger local TV news?(BROADCAST
VIEWS)
Listen up, local television stations. Remember the monopoly you
used to have on video? It's long gone. More than 1,000 U.S.
newspapers now have video online, and some of it isn't bad.
"The . . .
The sleuth: Pete Shellem of Harrisburg's Patriot-News has
freed four people from jail through dogged, old-fashioned
reporting.
Patty Carbone.
Steven Crawford.
Barry Laughman.
David Gladden.
Combined, they had spent 66 years in jail. All were destined to die
in a prison system that ignored their pleas of . . .
What the mainstream media can learn from Jon Stewart: no, not to
be funny and snarky, but to be bold and to do a better job of c
When Hub Brown's students first told him they loved "The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and sometimes even relied on it for
news, he was, as any responsible journalism professor would be,
appalled.
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