American Journalism Review

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Articles in June 2006 issue of American Journalism Review

• Return of the sob sisters.
  by Shapiro, Stephanie
• A call to arms.(DROP CAP)
• Rocketboom! Episodes of a fast-growing, low-budget online newscast emanating from a cramped Manhattan apartment are viewed more than 300,000 times. Do Rocketboom and similar videoblogs pose a threat to the future of television news?
  by Farhi, Paul
• Surrounded by Singleton: scooping up the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times gives dean Singleton a mammoth cluster of newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area and poses a significant challenge to the San Francisco Chronicle.(William Dean Sin
  by Layton, Charles
• Celebrating the news: a new and expanded Newseum, set to open next year in a prime D.C. location, will honor the First Amendment and what's right about journalism.(DROP CAP)
  by Meyers, Jessica
• Style wars in cyberspace: copy editors take to the blogosphere.
  by Davenport, Coral
• By the numbers: television has always relied on ratings to know what people are watching. Now newspapers can get statistics showing which stories on their Web sites attract the most attention. Will those numbers heighten the tabloidization of America's ne
  by Shiver, Jube, Jr.
• Getting over ourselves: the media landscape has changed irrevocably. Let's accept it, and fight to preserve what truly matters.(FULL COURT PRESS)
  by Rieder, Rem
• Remaking the front page: as they struggle to stem the circulation decline, newspapers are taking new approaches to what they put on page one.
  by Shaw, Donna
• Cancel my reservation.(Letter to the editor)
  by Combs, Jason; Robbins, Jim; Severance, Susan
• The tragedy of public ownership: newspapers have paid a steep price for going public.(THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS)
  by Morton, John
• Adapt or die: as newspaper companies confront a challenging future, they are increasingly viewing their trademark print product as the engine driving a diverse "portfolio" that embraces other "platforms" such as Web sites and niche pub
  by Smolkin, Rachel
• Have a little faith: at last, the mainstream media get religion.
  by Kunkel, Thomas
• Disappearing act: the Bush administration is going to great lengths to hide information that once had been public.(FIRST AMENDMENT WATCH)(George W. Bush)
  by Kirtley, Jane
• Rearranging the deck chairs.(Cliche Corner)(Brief article)
• A memoir--and a career manual.(Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life)(Book review)
  by Stepp, Carl Sessions
• The long and the long of it.(basketball players)(Brief article)
• Breaking the mold: Katie Couric's shift to solo network news anchor represents a milestone for women--and an opportunity to attract new viewers.
  by Potter, Deborah
• "This is why I do this in the first place".(Stan Tiner, Sun Herald)(Interview)
  by Smolkin, Rachel
• A false rivalry: they may not realize it, but print and online journalists have a common cause.(THE ONLINE FRONTIER)
  by Palser, Barb
• Still noisy.(Take 2)
• Fighting like tigers: a conference explores how to protect sources in a hostile legal and political climate.
• Ride 'em, fishy!(Take 2)