Recently added articles from American Journalism Review:
Three icons depart: despite their obvious differences, Cronkite, Novak and Hewitt had something in common.(ABOVE THE FOLD)(Walter Cronkite, Robert D. Novak and Don Hewitt)(In memoriam)
Aug 01, 2009; ... This summer saw the passing of three remarkable, and diverse, American news icons--Walter Cronkite, Robert D. Novak and Don Hewitt. The three were hardly alike in their approaches to the disciplines of journalism. Yet they had historic similarities. "Uncle Walter," the CBS News ...
Hanging tough.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2009 ... Beth Macy's "Hunkering Down" (June/July) is a beautiful piece on journalism. I thought she did a fantastic job of bringing together the past, present and future of the industry. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My husband is a journalist and was laid off in December 2008 from a ...
Small papers.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2009 ... AJR columnist John Morton missed the mark by referring to the small daily newspaper market as less vulnerable to failure than the metro dailies (The Newspaper Business, June/July). Take a look at CNHI and GateHouse Media for proof that small dailies are becoming extinct at an alarming ...
Silenced voices.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2009; ... The problem really hit me when I read the pull quote in "The MBA Option" sidebar of Robert Hodierne's "Is There Life After Newspapers?" (February/March). The quote states: "MBA programs target journalists because they add a diverse professional element to the classroom and they have skills ...
Go local.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2009; ... I have been occasionally reading your magazine for a decade. The last year's issues have been so depressing that if journalism was my only career, I'd be on three antidepressants and a fifth of whiskey a day. Fortunately, journalism is my third job. I own, or am part of, two other ...