St. Louis Journalism Review back issues from October 1999:
Public journalism hits television airwaves.
Oct 01, 1999; ... KMOV (Channel 4) is the latest local medium to jump on the civic journalism bandwagon. On Sunday, Sept. 26, Channel 4, in a collaborative effort with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, launched "Imagine St. Louis," a 30-minute program airing at 10 a.m. each Sunday and dedicated to examining ...
The Sporting News faces uncertain future.
Oct 01, 1999; ... Avenerable St. Louis institution, the Sporting News (TSN), is now on the auction block. Once a beacon for baseball afficionados and other sports lovers across the nation, the Gateway City publication's future has never been so uncertain. Parent company Times Mirror of Los ...
Local radio stations get national honor.(KFUO-FM and KZJZ in St. Louis, MO)
Oct 01, 1999; ... For the first time in the 10-year history of the awards, the National Association of Broadcasters has named two St. Louis radio stations as "Station of the Year" in their respective formats. KFUO-FM and KZJZ received Marconi Awards as the nation's top classical and New Adult ...
The Danforth investigation: a chance for the Post to shine.(probe on the Branch Davidian incident in Waco, TX)
Oct 01, 1999; ... In the summer of 1988, in order to serve a federal warrant, U.S. Circuit Attorney Thomas Dittmeier threw an armed cordon around the Emerson Electric Company in north St. Louis County. The feds sealed off the plant's executive offices and sent the workers home. Their warrant ...
Perception -not intent- is what counts.(racial bias on the issue of car cruising)
Oct 01, 1999; ... Thomas W. Purcell, president of the Laclede's Landing Redevelopment Corporation, ought to be satisfied. His pet peeve, car cruising, made the media. Not only was it the cover story in last month's S JR, but the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published his letter as well as a follow-up article ...
Sale of Sporting News sparks memories.
Oct 01, 1999; ... First it was Tom Mix and his Wranglers, and a secret decoder ring, available by mail from a place called Checkerboard square in a city called St. Louis, in exchange for some Ralston box tops, making cereal palatable to a grade school kid. Then it was the Sporting News, which also came from ...
Online ads stiff competition for newspapers.
Oct 01, 1999; ... Newspapers could lose as much as $5 billion in classified revenues to Internet competitors by the year 2003. The gap in projected revenue for newspaper classified ads if there were no Internet and the actual revenue with the Internet will only. widen with time, reports Forrester ...
Court applies Hazelwood to universities.
Oct 01, 1999; ... A little more than 10 years ago the high school press took it on the chin with the Supreme Court's infamous Hazelwood decision. Now the judicial system has struck a blow against the college press with a Sept. 8 decision. In the 1988 Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier ...
High flying publication looks at aviation.(Midwest Aviation Journal)
Oct 01, 1999; ... Jim Tecu has taken to the air in a sail plane glider, a gyroplane and a Cold War vintage Czech jet fighter. Tecu hobnobs with aerobatic champs and experimental airplane builders. One might guess that Tecu is a stunt pilot or an aerobatic daredevil himself. In fact, Webster ...
Reform or revolution - whatever works.
Oct 01, 1999; ... The general outlines of St. Louis's political culture are easy to describe. On the one hand, it is saddled by an unreformed, fragmented machine-style governmental structure that seems explicitly designed to dissipate political energies. On the other, it has long had a southern-style civic ...