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August/September 2004 issue
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Missed Signals
Why did it take so long for the news media to break the story of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib?
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By Sherry Ricchiardi
Lagging Behind
Fewer than 10.5 percent of the reporters and editors in daily newspaper Washington bureaus are minorities, a new Unity/University of Maryland survey finds. That’s a lower percentage than the much-maligned newspaper industry figure. Minority staffers give the D.C. press corps low marks for its coverage of race-related issues—and most hope to be out of the nation’s capital in five years.
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By Christopher Callahan
What Works?
Burlington, North Carolina’s Times-News and Colorado’s Greeley Tribune have similar circulations and hometown demographics. Yet while the staff in Burlington’s newsroom is practically all white, Greeley’s is diverse. What does Greeley do that Burlington
doesn’t?
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By Lori Robertson
The Story Behind the Story
How a 30-year secret involving one of Oregon’s most powerful figures finally came to light. How a feisty alt-weekly made it happen. And how the state’s dominant newspaper stumbled along the way.
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By Jill Rosen
Follow the Money
The campaign finance beat is important—and challenging. The tangled web of rules that govern fundraising and spending can be hard to penetrate, and doesn’t necessarily make for sparkling copy. How are the news media doing this time around?
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By Rachel Smolkin
Watergate Revisited
Thirty years after President Nixon’s resignation, there’s little agreement over just how important a role journalism played in bringing him down. But there’s no doubt the episode had a significant impact on the profession.
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By Mark Feldstein
Low Marks
The public takes a jaundiced view of the nation’s news media, a First Amendment Center/AJR poll finds. More than 60 percent believes making up stories is a widespread problem, and just 39 percent thinks news organizations try to report without bias.
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By Paul McMasters
Letter from Baghdad: Risky Business
The dangers in Iraq have led Western journalists to alter their appearances, rely more heavily on Iraqi staffers and, simply, to not venture too far from the hotel.
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By Colin Freeman
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