Issue 3: May/June

May/June 2002

Table of Contents

Special Report: Weighing The Risks

  • Foreign Coverage: The New Math
    Michael Parks considers the implications of the death of Daniel Pearl and a world full of new danger zones.
  • 'I Think I'm Shot'
    The bullet went through one shoulder and out the other; Anthony Shadid, of The Boston Globe, on his very close call.
  • Staying Alive
    One reporter's survival memo, by Stephen Franklin

Special Report: A Closer Look at The Pulitzers

  • The Gap
    Must the rich get richer? Brent Cunningham explores the growing prize-count divergence between the top papers and the rest.
  • Let's Go Public
    Why should insiders be the only ones to know who's a Pulitzer finalist? By Geneva Overholser
  • Prize Fights
    The Seattle Times vs. The Wall Street Journal, and other pre-vote challenges to potential winners. By Cassandra Tate
  • Q&A: Seymour Topping
    An exit interview with the man who ran the Pulitzers for nine years.
  • The Lists
    Who won the Pulitzers, the National Magazine Awards and the duPont/Columbia awards.

Media Monopoly

  • Behind the Mergers
    Neil Hickey interviews...Neil Hickey...on the rulings and forces that are setting up massive media consolidation.
  • News/Entertainment
    Lawrence K. Grossman finds some lines that Ted Koppel might have borrowed when Letterman loomed.
  • Goodnight, Nightly
    Why the unthinkable -- the end of network evening news -- may soon be all too real. By Jeff Gralnick

Other Articles

Currents

  • In Review
    Mea Maxima Culpa
  • Reporting
    When the Jury is Jailbait
  • Access
    Press Pass? I'll Pass.
  • Investigations
    The Scary Circus
  • Short Takes
    Postcard From OPEC
    The press scrum in Vienna. By Bruce Stanley
  • Opinions, Left
    Christopher Hitchens's two-front war. By John Giuffo
  • Opinions, Right
    Jonah Goldberg's feisty National Review Online. By Joshua Lipton

Voices

  • Ted Gup
    Secrets and Lies
  • Amanda Bennett
    A Projects Proposal
  • Wanda S. Lloyd
    Homegrown Diversity
  • Russ Baker
    Pushing Patriotism
  • Jeff Crilley
    Essay: True Confessions

Books

  • Robert Caro: A Working Profile
    After 2,600 pages, still looking fro LBJ. By Scott Sherman
  • Whose Book Is It Anyway?
    The elusive line between researcher and writer. By Ana Marie Cox
  • Somebody's Gotta Tell It
    By Jack Newfield. Reviewed by Dennis Duggan
  • Book Reports
    By James Boylan

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