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Articles in December 2006 issue of Nieman Reports

• Newspapers have met their enemy within: 'the question is not whether the newspaper is dead, but whether it can be rescued from unreasonable demands.'.
  by Sims, Watson
• A Gerald Boyd remembrance.(Gerald M. Boyd)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
  by Engel, Margaret
• John Edward Pearce.(--1958--)(Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Co. )(Obituary)
• Narrative journalism in the era of the Web: 'once the idea of using footnotes took hold, the question became whether we could use them for more than their usual purpose of attribution....'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)
  by Hancock, Lee; Miller, Mark
• Puzzling contradictions of China's internet journalism: a journalist who has worked in China says that 'the internet has strengthened the power of the central government, not undermined it.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)
  by Tuinstra, Fons
• The challenge of community building: Knight Foundation asks whether the community role newspapers play can be replicated by new media and offers to support those who show it can.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)
  by Kebbel, Gary
• The 'P' word in the book business: 'newspapers constantly editorialize about other professionals hiding their misdeeds, but with this they were silent.'.(Taking Words)
  by Engel, Margaret
• Caught in the Web: 'with the Web, we could be witnessing the most important development in expressive media since the advent of writing.'.
  by Palfreman, Jon
• Bill Marimow.(--1983--)(National Public Radio)(Biography)
• Dean Brelis.(--1958--)(Obituary)
• An optimistic plunge into multimedia reporting: 'one columnist took on a controversial local issue and covered it in a way we'd never done before.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)(Colleen Cason )
  by Howry, Joe
• Blogging news in China: 'in China, the internet enjoys relatively greater freedom than other media. even so, three of the articles I posted on my blog vanished without notice.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)(Viewpoint essay)
  by Luqiu, Luwei
• Community building on the web: implications for journalism: the founder of craigslist speaks about online lessons he shares with new media journalists.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)(Viewpoint essay)
  by Newmark, Craig
• Navigating the road to convergence: 'being small and a family-owned company are attributes that have helped us to become a multimedia news organization.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)(Journal-World)
  by Gage, Ralph
• Examining the core of the Nieman experience: the curator explores how the foundation can best cultivate the skills journalists will need in the digital era.(Nieman Foundation)
  by Giles, Bob
• Jim Stewart.(--1981--)(CBS Inc. CBS News)(Biography)
• Corrections.(Correction notice)
• Sights and sounds of a newspaper's editorials: an editorial page editor describes 'a wide-open, creative new world for journalists who want to make use of new media and relate to newspaper readers in new ways.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connectio
  by Albright, Susan
• Gathering voices to share with a worldwide online audience: 'global voices pulls together interesting threads of conversation and reporting from the global cacophony of blogging voices.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)
  by MacKinnon, Rebecca; Zuckerman, Ethan
• Goodbye Gutenberg.
• Media convergence: 'just do it': changing people's way of thinking is key to 'the media revolution' in northern Denmark.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)
  by Haagerup, Ulrik
• The Murrey and Frances Marder Fund.(gives finance to Nieman Foundation )(Brief article)
• Narrative: a writers' guide.(Telling True Stories)(Brief article)(Book review)
  by Ludtke, Melissa
• Dwight Sargent.(--1951--)(passed away )(Obituary)(Brief article)
• Taking the big gulp: 'the web is its own medium with its own characteristics. it is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)
  by Stevens, Jane Ellen
• Journalism and Web 2.0: 'tomorrow's potential readers are using the Web in ways we can hardly imagine, and if we want to remain significant for them, we need to understand how.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
  by Pisani, Francis
• A Nieman classmate remembers M.G.G. Pillai.(Obituary)
  by van Deventer, Hennie
• Tired of waiting to move ahead: with plenty of ideas about how to move journalism into its digital time, a journalist tries to push the industry past its natural inclination to 'voice the "no ways.'".(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)
  by Overholser, Geneva
• Geneive Abdo.(--2002--)(Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Gerald Boyd.(--1981--)(Obituary)
• Teaching journalism students to value what is authentic: 'I thought by sheer will I could be the one teacher who led his students away from plagiarism.'.(Taking Words)(Viewpoint essay)
  by Walth, Brent
• Feeding the Web while reporting the story: at the New York times, multimedia storytelling is becoming more a part of the journalism and less of an afterthought.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)
  by Chase, Neil
• Toward a new journalism with verification: 'this journalism must recognize that the distribution, the organization, and the sources of our work must change.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
• Jon Palfreman.(achievements and awards)(Brief article)
• Newspapers and their quest for the Holy Grail: putting the Web first might be 'the most difficult transformation in our mindset, but we should go ahead and flip our world on its head.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)
  by Riley, Michael
• Anil Padmanabhan's.(--2001--)(Kalpana Chawla: A Life)(Brief article)
• Steve Northup.(--1974--)(Naga Cities of the Mekong: A Guide to the Temples, Legends and History of Laos)(Book review)
• Plagiarism goes by a different name on the web: a journalism class experiences firsthand 'the slippery new terms being used in our slippery times.'.(Taking Words)
  by Muller, Judy
• Confronting the dual challenge of print and electronic news: 'to make best use of both editions, we need to be increasingly disciplined about what goes where.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)
  by Steiger, Paul E.
• Evolving definitions of news: 'journalists may have thought it was necessary to set the old school aside to accommodate the new realities, but with the new realities there is no new ethic.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
  by Bettag, Tom
• Bill Schiller.(Toronto Star)(Brief article)
• Capital crisis in the profitable newspaper industry: solving this 'will call upon levels of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship infrequently found in newspapers in recent years.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)
  by Picard, Robert G.
• Chris Hedges.(--1999--)(honored by Lannan Foundation)(Brief article)
• Larry L. King.(--1970--)(a theater stage named after him)(Brief article)
• The digital reach of a newspaper's code of ethics 'it offers readers ideas and phrases to use in their criticism of our journalism, which has a way of sorting serious critics from simple haters.'.(Exploring New Connections)
  by Miller, Dean
• Enterprising journalism in a multimedia world: with video, audio and interactive data, the associated press makes its investigative reporting accessible, useful to other news outlets, and compelling to its consumers.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the
  by Solomon, John
• We can adjust to changing demands, but should we? 'People can adapt to anything if the order comes from the person who signs the paychecks.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
  by Zelnik, Joe
• Alma Guillermoprieto.(achievements and awards)(Brief article)
• Risk-adverse newspapers won't cross the digital divide: 'newspapers lacked the external vision necessary to see the vast range of opportunities created by the Internet.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)
  by Cobler, Chris
• Debbie Seward.(--1997--)(joins Radio Free Europe )(Brief article)
• Jerome Aumente.(--1968--)(journalist)
• Inviting readers into the editorial process: in online polling about story selection, editors at the Wisconsin State Journal learn that 'the readers who vote consistently do choose weighty stories.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)(Editoria
  by Foley, Ellen
• When walls come tumbling down: the associated press is making 'radical adjustments' to its news reports and business strategies in response to the Web.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)(Company overview)
  by Kennedy, Jim
• Looking past the rush into convergence: as technology drives big newsroom changes, what will happen to journalism?(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
  by Wasserman, Edward
• Meshing purpose with product: heeding the warning against forcing 'existing quality standards into new technology,' a journalist is cautiously optimistic about the digital future.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Pushing Forward)
  by Meyer, Philip
• A dinosaur adapts: 'unencumbered by the need to squeeze words into a finite space, the internet proved better for me, as the writer, and I'd argue for readers, too, than newsprint.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Sensing the Change)(World Cup (Soccer) on internet)
  by Cullen, Kevin
• George de Lama.(--1992--)(editor of Chicago Tribune Co.)(Brief article)
• W. Hodding Carter, III.(--1966--)(honored by Committee to Protect Journalists)(Brief article)
• When the Web feeds the newspaper: the letter 'i' in iHerald stands for 'interactivity, the individual and the internet.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)
  by Blom, Eric
• Myths and realities of convergence: '... news organizations will be best served if they focus on stories--not delivery platforms.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Converging on the Web)
  by Covington, Randy
• Are journalists the 21st century's buggy whip makers? Newspapers might vanish, too, if they continue to 'dream of past dominance while taking their product and trying to fit it into their competitor's terrain.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Finding Our Footing)
  by Dietrich, William
• Goodbye to all that--a memoir: 'my introduction to daily journalism began with a murder. My introduction to Niemanry also began with a murder.'.
  by Norton, Edward C.
• Tim Giago.(--1991--)(Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools)(Brief article)(Book review)
• Smith Hempstone.(--1965--)(Obituary)
• Finding new people to tell the stories: '... progress in democratizing journalism doesn't necessarily translate into more or better news coverage--at least not yet.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Exploring New Connections)
  by Cox, Craig
• Will news find a home on YouTube? With little original news reporting surfacing on this web site, 'perhaps an important lesson learned is that tools don't make a tradesman.'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Expanding Our Reach)
  by Jones, Morris
• Why anonymity exists and works on newspapers' Web sites: 'if we require real names in print, shouldn't we do the same thing online?'.(Goodbye Gutenberg / Building Community)
  by Yelvington, Steve