American Journalism Review

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Articles in August 2004 issue of American Journalism Review

• Indecent oversight: unless the rules for news organizations are clearly defined, the FCC's crackdown on profanity could lead to censorship.(Broadcast Views)
  by Potter, Deborah
• Missed signals: why did it take so long for the news media to break the story of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib?(Cover Story)
  by Ricchiardi, Sherry
• The death of ethics?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
• The Web's campaign contributions: news sites may have offered fewer original stories during the primaries, but they're now flush with multimedia extras and interactivity.(The Online Frontier)
  by Palser, Barb
• Who's taking care of business? Editors have a hard time finding qualified applicants for business desk jobs.(Drop Cap)
  by Sine, Richard
• And furthermore....(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Rowse, Arthur E.
• Trademark law pays its respects: the names of deceased presidents are protected from being used as trademarks, sometimes long after death.(Special Advertising Section)(Advertisement)
  by Carl, Fred, III
• Campaign lifesaver.(Drop Cap)
  by Hull, Dana
• Hyping the numbers: the Chicago Sun-Times and some Tribune Co. properties acknowledge reporting inflated circulation totals.(The Newspaper Business)
  by Morton, John
• Low marks: the public takes a jaundiced view of the nation's news media, a First Amendment Center/AJR poll finds. More than 60 percent believes making up stories is a widespread problem, and just 39 percent thinks news organizations try to report without
  by McMasters, Paul
• Going it alone: accolades now come to Knight Ridder for its prescient reports expressing skepticism about claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.(Drop Cap)
  by Ritea, Steve
• Clarification.(Correction Notice)
• Risky business: the dangers in Iraq have led Western journalists to alter their appearances, rely more heavily on Iraqi staffers and, simply, to not venture too far from the hotel.(Letter from Baghdad)
  by Freeman, Colin
• After the Hurricane: what's up with the reporter who took down Jayson Blair?(The Beat)
  by Anders, Gigi
• Me, myself and I: an anthology shows that crime writing is best when it's not so self-indulgent.(Books)(Book Review)
  by Stepp, Carl Sessions
• Watergate revisited: thirty years after President Nixon's resignation, there's little agreement over just how important a role journalism played in bringing him down. But there's no doubt the episode had a significant impact on the profession.
  by Feldstein, Mark
• Toothless watchdogs: the news media, WMD and Abu Ghraib.(Full Court Press)
  by Rieder, Rem
• Q & A.(Drop Cap)(Interview)
• Follow the money: the campaign finance beat is important--and challenging. The tangled web of rules that govern fundraising and spending can be hard to penetrate, and doesn't necessarily make for sparkling copy. How are the news media doing this time arou
  by Smolkin, Rachel
• The fine print.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Bilbrey, Greg
• Corrections.(Correction Notice)
• The story behind the story: how a 30-year secret involving one of Oregon's most powerful figures finally came to light. How a feisty alt-weekly made it happen. And how the state's dominant newspaper stumbled along the way.
  by Rosen, Jill
• I second that.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
• What works? Burlington, North Carolina's Times-News and Colorado's Greeley Tribune have similar circulations and hometown demographics. Yet while the staff in Burlington's newsroom is practically all white, Greeley's is diverse. What does Greeley do that
  by Robertson, Lori
• More Crossfire.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
• Security check: the long list of what you won't learn from the Transportation Security Administration.(First Amendment Watch)
  by Kirtley, Jane
• Lagging behind: fewer than 10.5 percent of the reporters and editors in daily newspaper Washington bureaus are minorities, a new UNITY/University of Maryland survey finds. That's a lower percentage than the much-maligned newspaper industry figure. Minorit
  by Callahan, Christopher
• Fade-out: Ronald Reagan's death brought out the best and the worst of the American news media.(Above the Fold)
  by Kunkel, Thomas