Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Vol. 53 No. 1 Spring 1999
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Voices and Experiences Of Young Journalists


Table of Contents
4 Voices and Experiences Of Young Journalists
5Stitching a Community Together With a Newspaper Staffed by Young Journalists By Brandon Tubbs
8Restoring a Sense of What It Means to Be a Journalist By Robin Jones
10When Mediocrity Beckons By William Brent Cunningham
12Falling in Love With Words and How Journalists Use Them By Kathryn S. Wenner
14Teaching Journalism by Adhering to Unchanging Standards By Nancy Day
17Using the Realities of the Newsroom to Train Journalists By Helen Ubinas
20On-Line Journalism: Frustrations Along the Road to the Future By Stephen Borelli
23Riding the Digital Wave Into Journalism: Is It the Best Wave for Students to Catch? By Stephen D. Isaacs
25Are Minorities Getting a Fair Shot At Journalism Jobs? The Answer is "No": Now What Can be Done? By Carolyn Toll Oppenheim

29Journalist's Trade

30Using Education Data to Build a Story's Foundation By Carol Napolitano
33A Newspaper's Report Cards Offer Revealing Insights Into How Well Schools are Doing By Neill A. Borowski and Connie Langland
35Using Education Data Effectively By Sarah Cohen
37The Price of Hope: Investigating Disparities Among Rich and Poor Schools By Ted Mellnik and Debbie Cenziper
40The Learning Gap: Highlighting Teachers' Competency By Linda J. Johnson
43A Dual-Track Approach to Tackling the Topic of Reading: Reporting the Story and Pitching in to Fix the Problem By David Lauter
46By Being There, a Reporter Captures a Rare View of Middle School By Jolayne Houtz
48International Journalism

49Hong Kong's Press: While Debate Rages About Media Ethics, Self-Censorship Quietly Thrives By Peter Stein
51When Numbers Talk, Journalists Help People Listen By Brant Houston
52International Journalists Use Internet Technology to Breach Borders By Maud S. Beelman
54If Birds Were Reporters, What Would Their Eyes Reveal? By Christopher Simpson
59Books

60Unraveling the Mystery of Vanishing Foreign News By Deborah Amos
62Foreign Correspondents Transform Their Coverage Into Books By Murray Seeger
65What Difference Would It Make If Reporters Knew a War Crime When They Saw One? By Roy Gutman
66Can Business Reporting Become a Positive New Force in Foreign News Coverage? By Orville Schell
67 The Culture of Secrecy: Can It Be Cracked Open? By Athan G. Theoharis
69Race Intrudes on a Newspaperman's Career By Joseph Williams
70A Desire to Tell People What They Ought to Know By Ray Scherer
72Golf Offers a Window on Our Changing World By Tom Witosky
3Curator's Corner
Nieman Notes
74The Nieman Network Works in Wondrous Ways By Chris Bowman
75Class Notes
79End Note: A Photographer Unites Generations With His Camera By Steven Rubin
The cover photograph is of a fourth-grade student from Lee County in South Carolina. Photo by Diedra Laird, The Charlotte Observer.


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