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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

Introduction

A photographers’ poker game at the Halsman Studio, New York, in the early 1950’s. Gjon Mili is sitting in the white chair. Clockwise from him: Dmitri Kessel, Robert Capa, Pepi Martis, Philippe Halsman, and Cornell Capa. Photo © Yvonne Halsman, used courtesy of the Halsman Archives.

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