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Winter 1999 - Spring 2000

Journalism: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1947: Freedom for What? Excerpt from the Hutchins Report; 1947: Press Reaction to Hutchins Report By Walter Lippmann, et. al.; 1947: A Free and Responsible Press By Louis M. Lyons; 1950: The Captive Press By Douglass Cater; 1951: How Best Prepare for Newspaper Work? By Edward A. Walsh; 1954: Handouts to the Country Editor By Evan Hill; 1959: The Pursuit of Journalism By Thomas Griffith; 1959: Birthday Address To the National Press Club By Walter Lippmann; 1960: Newspapermen and Lawyers By Anthony Lewis; 1960: The Catholic Issue By Archibald MacLeish; 1961: Are We the Best Informed Nation? By James W. Markham; 1963: For That Hole in the Forms By Edwin A. Lahey; 1960: Asking Rude Questions By Harry S. Ashmore; 1964: Calvin Coolidge and the Press By Louis M. Lyons; 1966: Custodians of the City By Harry S. Ashmore; 1978: Uphill All the Way By Alden Whitman; 1979: Covering the Women’s Movement By Peggy A. Simpson; 1971: The Xerox and the Pentagon By Herbert Kupferberg; 1979: Yes Virginia, There Is an Agnes By Jerome Aumente; 1983: Press Performance: Enough Is Too Little By Eugene C. Patterson; 1986: The Us-First Syndrome By Sam Zagoria; 1986: Standards and Principles By Ted Koppel; 1989: Has Money Corrupted Washington Journalism? By James S. Doyle; 1990: The Impact of Public Opinion Polls By Bill Kovach; 1991: Investigators’ Checklist By Ann Marie Lipinski; 1991: Operation Washington Shield By Murrey Marder; 1992: Popular Music By Anthony DeCurtis; 1994: The Old and Future Labor Beat By Murray Seeger; 1996: Feasting on the Seed Corn By Alex S. Jones; 1996: A Grueling Standard to Live By By Carole Kneeland; 1996: Needed: Long-Haul Commitment By Melanie Sill; 1998: This Is Watchdog Journalism By Murrey Marder; 1998: Making Sense Out of a Tragedy By John Schwartz; 1999: Using Education Data to Build a Story’s Foundation By Carol Napolitano
First Amendment: The Bill of Rights; 1980: The New Reality By Anthony Lewis; 1990: A Supreme Court Decision Fosters Litigation By Eugene Roberts; 1991: The Bill of Rights in Pictures By Nieman Photographers
Objectivity: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1950: Backdoor Editorializing By John L. Hulteng; April 1952: The Cult of Incredibility By David Manning White; 1955: The Seven Deadly Virtues By Wallace Carroll; 1970: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thou Shouldst Be Living at This Hour By Wallace Carroll; 1968: The Newsman—Society’s Lonesome End By Wes Gallagher; 1971: A Case for the Professional By Wes Gallagher; 1970: The Quest for Objectivity By Eric Sevareid; 1971: White Newsmen and Black Critics By Lawrence Schneider; 1994: Expert Journalism By Lou Ureneck; 1999: The Role of Reporters’ Judgment Watchdog Conference
Sources: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1958: Attribution of News By Alfred Friendly; 1981: Weighing Sources—Anonymous and Otherwise By Clark R. Mollenhoff; 1984: Confidential Sources: Testing the Readers’ Confidence By Gene Foreman; 1986: CIA Rarely Tells the Press What it Wants to Know By Howard Simons; 1999: Reporters’ Relationships With Sources Watchdog Conference; 1999: When Reporters are Shut Out By Sources Watchdog Conference
Race: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1948: The Southern Revolt By Hodding Carter; 1948: The South and the South’s Problem By Harry S. Ashmore; 1956: A Negro Reporter at the Till Trial By Simeon Booker; 1962: The Reporter in the Deep South By John Herbers; 1962: Prince Edward’s ‘Massive Resistance’ By John Alfred Hamilton; 1968: A Newspaper’s Role Between the Riots By Philip E. Meyer; 1978: Covering the Real Politics By J. Anthony Lukas; 1979: Nonwhite America: The ‘Unseen Environment’ By Robert C. Maynard; 1992: We Weren’t Listening By Harold Jackson; 1998: Roy DeCarava Retrospective By Lester Sloan
Electronic Media: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1949: The Newspaperman Meets Television By Lowell M. Limpus; 1951: How Can Newspapers Meet Competition of Radio and Television? By John S. Hayes; 1952: Al Capp Views the Networks By Al Capp; 1959: The Square Eye vs. the Written Word By Malcolm Muggeridge; 1966: LBJ Should Hold Formal Press Conferences By Richard L. Strout; 1981: A Conversation With Fred Friendly; 1985: Media Power and the Dangers of Mass Information By Michael J. O’Neill; 1994: A New Agenda for Journalism By Katherine Fulton
Photography: Introduction; 1952: Does Press Freedom Include Photography? By Joseph Costa; 1974: Words on Pictures By Steve Northup; 1982: Fragile Moments By Bill Welch; 1998: Photo Essay By Michele McDonald; 1999: Using the Camera to Peer Inside By Beatriz Terrazas
International News: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke, Editor; 1961: Congo: Reporter’s Nightmare By Henry Tanner; 1964: Why Diplomats Clam Up By John Kenneth Galbraith; 1972: Reflections on Vietnam, the Press And America By Peter Arnett; 1982: Endangered Species By David Lamb; 1983: China Reporting Revisited … By James C. Thomson, Jr.; 1983: … The Crucial 1940's By Walter Sullivan; 1983: Freedom of the Press By M.G.G. Pillai; 1988: In Memoriam: Percy Qoboza By Dennis Pather; 1992: China and the Foreign Press By Sarah Lubman; 1992: The Kept Mexican Press By Raymundo Riva Palacio; 1993: Scouts Without Compasses By Sylvia Poggioli; 1997: What Happens When the Cameras Leave? By Ann K. Cooper; 1997: One David, Two Goliaths By Bryan Rich; 1998: Questioning If Guilt Without Punishment Will Lead to Reconciliation By Mathatha Tsedu; 1999: In Yugoslavia, the Consequences of Not Reporting the Truth By Chris Hedges; 1999: Reporting Stories in Russia That No One Will Publish By Yevgenia Albats
Curator's Corner: The Roots of Our Responsibility By Bill Kovach

The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights, as this parchment copy is now known, is on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives. Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.

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