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Book reviews | 'The Vanishing Newspaper' and other takes on news and the news business
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The current issue of Nieman Reports (Spring 2005) includes in-depth reviews of recent books by Phil Meyer, Bonnie M. Anderson, Robert McChesney and John Nichols, Dan Gillmor, Seymour Hersh, Geoffrey R. Stone, Seth Mnookin, Mark Bowden, and Sebastiao Salgado.

Book review | 'Bury the Chains,' by Adam Hochschild
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Citizen activism and investigative reporting as powerful tools in England 200 years ago

From The Atlantic | The Texas Clemency Memos
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As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales—now the White House counsel, and widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee—prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review. Never before discussed publicly, the memoranda suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand

Available online | Frontline and The Washington Post present 'Rumsfeld's War'
SHOWCASE| October 302, 2004
An outstanding report that breaks through the wall of secrecy in the Bush administration.

On the Web | Liberal think tank prepares tough questions for journalists to use
SHOWCASE| August 239, 2004
The Center for American Progress has more questions than it knows what to do with.

Tools | Tipsheet points to hot environmental stories
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A tipsheet from the Society of Environmental Journalists exposes government attempts to keep important environmental information secret – and calls attention to great watchdog reporting.

Web Guide | Web sites for journalists
SHOWCASE| July 183, 2004
Here are some outstanding sites that help journalists do better work.

Great Work | Dispatch from the food lines
SHOWCASE| June 180, 2004
How long are the lines at the food pantries in your area? Do you know? Let's say they're really long. How do you cover that? The Columbus Dispatch's approach is a model.

Tiger Force | How The Toledo Blade came to win a Pulitzer for a story that was 37 years old
SHOWCASE| May 129, 2004
Q&A with executive editor Ron Royhab on atrocities in Vietnam that the Army had kept hidden...

Lecture | Reporting From the War Zone: At What Cost?
SHOWCASE| May 122, 2004
Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid won a Pulitzer in 2004 for his stunning coverage of life in Iraq in 2003...


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