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Winter 2006

Goodbye Gutenberg: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, editor; Newspaper Gallery By Various contributors
Sensing the Change: Caught in the Web By Jon Palfreman; A Dinosaur Adapts By Kevin Cullen; Risk-Adverse Newspapers Won't Cross the Digital Divide By Chris Cobler; Capital Crisis in the Profitable Newspaper Industry By Robert G. Picard; Newspapers and Their Quest for the Holy Grail By Michael Riley
Pushing Forward: Tired of Waiting to Move Ahead By Geneva Overholser; Media Convergence: ‘Just Do It’ By Ulrik Haagerup; Navigating the Road to Convergence By Ralph Gage; Meshing Purpose With Product By Philip Meyer
Building Community: Community Building on the Web: Implications for Journalism By Craig Newmark; The Challenge of Community Building By Gary Kebbel; Why Anonymity Exists and Works on Newspapers' Web Sites By Steve Yelvington
Finding Our Footing: Are Journalists the 21st Century's Buggy Whip Makers? By William Dietrich; Vanishing Jobs at Newspapers By William Dietrich; Looking Past the Rush Into Convergence By Edward Wasserman; We Can Adjust to Changing Demands, But Should We? By Joe Zelnik; Evolving Definitions of News By Tom Bettag; Toward a New Journalism With Verification By Bill Kovach; Journalism and Web 2.0 By Francis Pisani
Expanding Our Reach: Gathering Voices to Share With a Worldwide Online Audience By Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman; The Global Voices Manifesto By Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman; Blogging News in China By Luwei (Rose) Luqiu; Puzzling Contradictions of China's Internet Journalism By Fons Tuinstra; Will News Find a Home on YouTube? By Morris Jones
Converging on the Web: Myths and Realities of Convergence By Randy Covington; When Walls Come Tumbling Down By Jim Kennedy; Enterprising Journalism in a Multimedia World By John Solomon; Confronting the Dual Challenge of Print and Electronic News By Paul E. Steiger; Feeding the Web While Reporting the Story By Neil Chase
Exploring New Connections: Taking the Big Gulp By Jane Ellen Stevens; Must-Read Books Suggestions by Jane Ellen Stevens; Sights and Sounds of a Newspaper’s Editorials By Susan Albright; An Optimistic Plunge Into Multimedia Reporting By Joe Howry; Narrative Journalism in the Era of the Web By Lee Hancock and Mark Miller; Finding New People to Tell the Stories By Craig Cox; Letter to the Editor By Liz McLemore; When the Web Feeds the Newspaper By Eric Blom; Inviting Readers Into the Editorial Process By Ellen Foley; The Quickening Pace of Change By Ellen Foley; The Digital Reach of a Newspaper's Code of Ethics By Dean Miller
Taking Words: ‘About This Story’ By Russell Frank; Plagiarism Goes by a Different Name on the Web By Judy Muller; Teaching Journalism Students to Value What Is Authentic By Brent Walth; The 'P' Word in the Book Business By Margaret Engel
Curator's Corner: Examining the Core of the Nieman Experience By Bob Giles
Nieman Notes: Newspapers Have Met Their Enemy Within By Watson Sims; Goodbye to All That—A Memoir By Edward C. Norton

Must-Read Books

Suggestions by Jane Ellen Stevens

To understand the larger media environment in which journalism is practiced—"the new ocean we're swimming in," as Jane Ellen Stevens calls it—she offers four must-read books:

"The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture," by John Battelle.

RELATED ARTICLE
"Taking the Big Gulp"
– Jane Ellen Stevens"We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, for the People," by Dan Gillmor.

"Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution," by Howard Rheingold.

"Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter," by Steven Johnson.

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