3. Daily SPJ Press Notes

SPJ PressNotes for Friday, August 20, 2004

Compiled by Robert Greene
Ward Neff Intern
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Oklahoma

TODAY'S HEADLINES
* Developing: Kidnapped journalist may be freed soon
* Chronicle won't reveal sourcing information
* UK journalist detained in Israel
* Military commission media rules released
* FCC weighing fines for all CBS affiliates over Super Bowl incident
* Reporters who protect sources face perils
* Producer faces life after '60 Minutes'
* ABC denies culpability in circ scandal
* Brokaw upset at remark, exclusion from debates
* Catholic magazine publisher quits Bush campaign
* IFJ calls for international action to protect journalists
* Bryant's lawyers oppose release of tape to media
* Media "bigfeet" out of touch and doing a poor job
* How the media are failing us
* Former Examiner bureau chief dies
* Correction
* This day in history

INTERNATIONAL
Developing: Kidnapped journalist may be freed soon

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reportedly appealed to kidnappers to
free journalist Micah Garen. In addition, there were reports that a
videotape of Garen had appeared on Al-Jazeera. The story was
developing as this issue of PressNotes was distributed. Search Google
News for the latest information.

Source: Google News Search
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=ascii&q=garen&btnG=Search+News

LEGAL
Chronicle won't reveal sourcing information

In the latest apparent assault on reporters' confidentiality, the San
Francisco Chronicle is fighting a U.S. Attorney's office request for
documents and sourcing information related to its coverage of the
explosive federal BALCO steroid investigation. Editor Phil Bronstein
said today the paper has already sent two letters to investigators
denying the requests. The letters "basically say we don't need to
comply with the requests," said Bronstein, who met Wednesday with
Hearst Corp. General Counsel Eve Burton to discuss the issue. "It is
going to be a case where we support fully our reporters' right to
protect confidentiality of sources."

Source: Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000615397

INTERNATIONAL
UK journalist detained in Israel

UK foreign secretary Jack Straw is being urged to take action over a
UK journalist detained in Israel. Ewa Jasiewicz, 26, was prevented
from entering Israel at an airport in Tel Aviv last week and was
placed in a detention centre when she appealed. The Israelis say she
is a political activist whose journalism is biased. The editor of Ms
Jasiewicz's magazine has called on Mr. Straw to protest in the
strongest terms to the Israeli government.

Source: BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3583534.stm

LEGAL
Military commission media rules released

The Department of Defense this week publicly released its ground rules
for media coverage of the military commission proceedings scheduled to
begin on Monday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Among the regulations is a
contract reporters and their bureau chiefs must sign that allows the
U.S. government to embargo information and censor photographs. The
preliminary hearings of four men, captured during the war in
Afghanistan, will run through next week. According to Maj. Michael
Shavers, a public affairs officer at the DOD, approximately 70
journalists and support personnel have been credentialed to attend the
preliminary hearings, where charges will be read and the military
commission process will be explained.

Source: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
http://www.rcfp.org/news/2004/0819guanta.html

LEGAL
FCC weighing fines for all CBS affiliates over Super Bowl incident

If two members of the Federal Communications Commission have their
say, all 219 of CBS's affiliates could have to pay a price for Janet
Jackson's breast flash during the network's Super Bowl coverage in
February. That was one of the major possibilities still being debated
at the agency yesterday -- almost seven months after FCC Chairman
Michael Powell expressed outrage about the prime-time exposure and
vowed a "thorough and swift" investigation.

Source: Doug Halonen, TV Week
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=6144

LEGAL
Reporters who protect sources face perils

Courts are posing a serious threat to agreements between reporters and
their sources who provide valuable information in exchange for
confidentiality, media organizations say. Three times this summer,
judges have held journalists in contempt of court for refusing to name
their anonymous sources. Press advocates fear the rulings are the
start of a dangerous trend.

Source: Associated Press via The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Journalists-in-Court.html

TELEVISION
Producer faces life after '60 Minutes'

Don Hewitt has problems. He does not play golf. He is not itching to
become a professor or a touring lecturer. He is 81 years old, has just
ended a 36-year career as the executive producer of "60 Minutes," and
has no idea what to do with his life. Mr. Hewitt was sitting on his
back porch here one recent afternoon, delivering an exegesis of the
Vietnam War and the Bay of Pigs invasion and watching clouds scud
across Mecox Bay, when he sprang from the couch and headed toward the
stairs. "Up here," he said, "is my dilemma in a nutshell."

Source: Patrick Healy, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/nyregion/20profile.html

NEWSPAPERS
ABC denies culpability in circ scandal

The Audit Bureau of Circulations would have you believe that the
"circulation conspiracies" at Newsday, Hoy, the Chicago Sun-Times and
The Dallas Morning News were so complex that there should be no
reasonable expectation of ABC uncovering them. Here are a few quotes
from ABC officials that exemplify their position: "The fact is, an
audit is not designed to catch collusion ... We're reviewing our
process internally but if there is a real concerted effort to cheat,
it can work."

Source: Jay Schiller, Editor and Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000615297

VIEWPOINT/POLITICS
Brokaw upset at remark, exclusion from debates

NBC News' 63-year-old alpha male - already annoyed that nobody from
NBC was picked last Friday to moderate this fall's presidential and
vice presidential debates - is mad as hell and he's not going to take
it anymore. He blew a gasket this week after debate honcho Janet
Brown told The New York Times that star network anchormen are
unsuitable. "For fear that they would overshadow the events," The
Times explained.

Source: Lloyd Grove, The New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/224034p-192433c.html

POLITICS
Catholic magazine publisher quits Bush campaign

Deal W. Hudson, publisher of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis
and a close ally of the Bush White House, has resigned as an adviser
to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign because of allegations that he
sexually harassed a Fordham University student a decade ago. Hudson,
54, had been a key player in the Republican Party's effort to attract
Roman Catholic voters. Because of his connections to the White House
and his friendship with senior presidential adviser Karl Rove, he was
widely regarded as a Catholic power broker in Washington.

Source: Alan Cooperman, The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17087-2004Aug19.html

INTERNATIONAL
IFJ calls for international action to protect journalists

The International Federation of Journalists today called for new
international action to protect media staff as militant groups in
Nepal and Iraq issued threats to kill journalists. The IFJ statement
came as Iraqi militants threatened to kill French journalist Micah
Garen, who has American citizenship and who was kidnapped while
working for a US film-maker in Iraq. The satellite channel Al Jazeera
television showed footage of him kneeling in front of five masked men
holding rifles. Last weekend British journalist James Brandon was
subject to the same ordeal but later released after an appeal to the
militants by radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Source: International Federation of Journalists
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=2645&Language=EN

LEGAL
Bryant's lawyers oppose release of tape to media

Kobe Bryant's attorneys say in a new court filing that statements he
made to investigators after he was accused of rape last summer
shouldn't be released to the media because it is not yet certain they
will be used in his trial. In a filing made public Thursday, the Los
Angeles Lakers star's lawyers opposed a news media request to release
Bryant's statements and testimony about those statements.

Source: The Associated Press via ESPN.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1863132

VIEWPOINT
Media "bigfeet" out of touch and doing a poor job

Although we're not yet through the national conventions, 2004 is
emerging as a snakebitten election for America's media "Bigfeet" — our
news organizations and TV's non-stop talking heads. They've been wrong
so much of the time already.

Source: Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/187147_joel20.html

VIEWPOINT/INTERNATIONAL
How the media are failing us

The decline of the inquiring and specialist reporter for the news
pages and programs, and the rise of the "look-at-me" shock jock and
columnist is the most significant recent change in Australian
journalism - and it is a much greater problem for the audience than
bias, which can usually be discerned and discarded.

Source: Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/politics/18protests.html

OBITUARY
Former Examiner bureau chief dies

Don West, an award-winning reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and
the author of books about the Patricia Hearst kidnapping and two Santa
Cruz serial murderers, has died. Mr. West died Friday of kidney
failure in a Eureka hospital. He was 76.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/19/BAGUL8A8071.DTL

CORRECTION
Daily Kos blogger misidentified

The author and publisher of the Daily Kos blog was misidentified in
Thursday's PressNotes. Markos Moulitsas publishes the Daily Kos. The
editor regrets the error.

HISTORY
This day in history

1998: Retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East
Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against
al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a
chemical plant in Sudan.
1968: the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded
Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of
Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1953: The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

PressNotes is edited by Matthew Cecil, Assistant Professor in the
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Oklahoma. Cecil can be reached at: matt.cecil@gmail.com

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SPJ PressNotes for Thursday, August 19, 2004

Compiled by Robert Greene
Ward Neff Intern
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Oklahoma

TODAY'S HEADLINES
* Militants threaten to kill journalist
* Reporters ruled in contempt in Lee case
* Judge's ruling may chill newsgathering
* Do reporters have a right to protect confidential sources?
* Chicago mayor and newspaper stoke animosity
* Papers print Bush campaign letter template
* Journalists of color are the future of the news media
* Washington Post editor reiterates pre-war fumbles
* Blogger questions ethics of journalists' poltical donations
* Media to be restricted at terror hearings
* Muckraking journalist can seek asylum
* Bryant judge loosens media gag order
* This day in history

INTERNATIONAL
Militants threaten to kill journalist

Armed militants have threatened to kill a Western journalist who was
kidnapped in Iraq if U.S. forces do not withdraw from the city of
Najaf within 48 hours. In a videotape aired on the Arabic language
network Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, journalist Micah Garen is sitting on
the floor, while a militant kneels behind him reading a statement and
four others stand brandishing assault rifles and rocket-propelled
grenades. All five of the militants are masked.

Source: CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.reporter/

LEGAL
Reporters ruled in contempt in Lee case

A federal judge in Washington held five journalists in contempt of
court yesterday for refusing to disclose the names of confidential
sources who might have given them information about Dr. Wen Ho Lee,
the scientist at Los Alamos nuclear laboratory who had once been
suspected of espionage. The judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson of Federal
District Court in Washington, ordered that each journalist, including
two from The New York Times, be fined $500 a day. But Judge Jackson
immediately suspended the imposition of those penalties pending the
reporters' appeals. The journalists are Jeff Gerth and James Risen of
The Times; Robert Drogin of The Los Angeles Times; H. Josef Hebert of
The Associated Press; and Pierre Thomas, formerly of CNN and now ABC
News.

Source: Jacques Steinberg and Michael Janofsky, New York Times
http://nytimes.com/2004/08/19/national/19lee.html

LEGAL
Judge's ruling may chill newsgathering

A judge's decision to punish five reporters for refusing to identify
their sources for stories about nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee threatens
to chill vital newsgathering at a time of increased government
secrecy, advocates say.

Source: Hope Yen, The Associated Press via The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14884-2004Aug19.html

LEGAL
Do reporters have a right to protect confidential sources?

For those who might have assumed that the issue had long since been
settled in favor of the press, these cases [CIA and Wen Ho Lee cases]
demonstrate otherwise. In fact, the matter of whether journalists can
protect their confidential sources is one of the great unknowns in
media law. For the most part, the answer is no: reporters have the
same requirement to testify before a grand jury and divulge what they
know about a crime that's under investigation as any other citizen
does. Yet because relying on anonymous sources is sometimes a
necessary part of journalism, the courts — and many state legislatures
— have carved out certain limited protections for the news media. No
reporter, though, enjoys absolute, blanket protection.

Source: Dan Kennedy, Boston Phoenix
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04066370.asp

NEWSPAPERS
Chicago mayor and newspaper stoke animosity

It all started when a chunk of concrete fell from the top of Wrigley
Field, nearly hitting a child. When city officials looked into the
matter, they discovered that Tribune Co.- which owns the field and
publishes the city's largest newspaper - didn't have proper permits
when it made previous repairs to the 90-year-old ballpark. The
corporate misstep led Mayor Richard M. Daley, a longtime critic of
local media, to take swipes at the Chicago Tribune. He also chided
Tribune Co. and the baseball team it owns, the Chicago Cubs.

Source: P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tribune19aug19,1,2518289.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

POLITICS/BLOGOSPHERE
Papers print Bush campaign letter template

Left-leaning blogger Markos Moulitsas Zuniga discovered that dozens of
newspapers have been duped into printing a Bush campaign
letter-to-the-editor template. Bush supporters copied the template,
available on the GW04 Web site, word-for-word and sent it to their
local newspapers. Zuniga did a Google news search for an entire
paragraph of the letter-to-the-editor template and found it had run,
exactly as written by the Bush campaign, in 60 U.S. newspapers. Called
"astroturfing," this technique of deliberately seeding public
relations messages to create the false impression of a grass roots
reaction, is commonly used by Republicans and Democrats alike.

Source: The Daily Kos
http://dailykos.com/story/2004/8/17/17029/2550

DIVERSITY
Journalists of color are the future of the news media

How Long Must We Wait?: The Fight for Racial and Ethnic Equality in
the American News Media" is a 21-page booklet full of nuggets about
the history of race and the news media, produced by two figures in the
National Association of Hispanic Journalists, immediate past president
Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres, deputy director for policy and
programs. Released during the Unity convention, it is an argument for
more activism by journalists of color. "After all, demographic trends
all indicate that people of color are the future of the United States.
In the same way, journalists of color are the future of the news
media," it says.

Source: Richard Prince, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/040818_prince/

NEWSPAPERS
Washington Post editor reiterates pre-war fumbles

Appearing on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on Wednesday night,
Leonard Downie, Jr., executive editor of the Washington Post, again
admitted that he'd made mistakes in directing the newspaper's coverage
in the run-up to the Iraq war, but he continued to describe that
failure mainly in terms of not putting more skeptical stories on the
front page. At a couple of points, however, he spoke in broader terms
than he had in the article exploring the paper's prewar coverage,
written by Post reporter Howard Kurtz, published on August 12.

Source: Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000614686

ETHICS/BLOGOSPHERE
Blogger questions ethics of journalists' poltical donations

It was a delayed reaction, but a reaction nonetheless. After
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz splashed the front page news
in January that 100-plus journalists and media execs made political
contributions -- counter to ethics policies, in some cases -- no
journalists or watchdog groups followed his lead to dig deeper.
Instead, the person to follow through with a vengeance was an unlikely
media watchdog: novice blogger and longtime AIDS activist Michael
Petrelis, who says he never even read Kurtz's piece until much later.

Source: Mark Glaser, Online Journalism Review
http://ojr.org/ojr/ethics/1092784935.php

ACCESS
Media to be restricted at terror hearings

Media covering preliminary hearings for terror suspects next week at
Guantanamo Bay will face tight restrictions, including rules that may
delay or prevent the release of information the U.S. military says is
classified or protected. In an explanation of the ground rules
Wednesday, the U.S. military said the limits are meant to ensure
security of both participants and sensitive information.

Source: Paisley Dodds, Associated Press via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040818/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_media_1

LEGAL
Muckraking journalist can seek asylum

A foreign journalist who exposed local corruption, then fled for her
life, can be considered a political refugee eligible for asylum in the
United States, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The ruling
by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco extends a
previous ruling -- which provided refuge for a foreign government
whistle-blower -- to a reporter who faced retaliation for an article
that criticized government leaders.

Source: Bob Egelko, The San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/08/19/MNG428AD9U1.DTL

LEGAL
Bryant judge loosens media gag order

The trial judge in the Kobe Bryant rape case on Wednesday slightly
relaxed a media gag order on attorneys, but ordered them to continue
to keep quiet so they won't prejudice the jury pool. In relaxing the
ban he issued Aug. 4, District Judge Terry Ruckriegle said he had been
worried about statements made by the alleged victim's attorneys, L.
Lin Wood and John Clune, which "had greatly escalated in frequency and
acrimony in recent weeks."

Source: Peggy Lowe, Rocky Mountain News
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3120899,00.html

HISTORY
This day in history

2003: A suicide truck bomb struck U.N. headquarters in Baghdad,
killing 22, including the top U.N. envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
1960: A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers of espionage.
1934: A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive
power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

PressNotes is edited by Matthew Cecil, Assistant Professor in the
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Oklahoma. Cecil can be reached at: matt.cecil@gmail.com

SPJ PressNotes for Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Compiled by Robert Greene
Ward Neff Intern
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Oklahoma

TODAY'S HEADLINES
* Media attorneys worried about Wen Ho Lee hearing
* Times receives two more subpoenas
* Newspaper ads gained 4 percent in Q2
* Inquiry Into F.B.I. Questioning Is Sought
* Setbacks on press protections are seen
* First-half ad spending up 6.4 percent
* Newsweek's Whitaker says ads shouldn't look like editorial
* Cronkite praises newspapers, buries broadcast news
* Life magazine photojournalist Mydans dies
* Buddy Davis, UF professor and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, dead at 80
* This day in history

LEGAL
Media Attorneys Worried About Wen Ho Lee Hearing

Media attorneys are not hopeful about Wednesday morning's scheduled
hearing in the Wen Ho Lee case, in which up to six reporters are
expected to be held in contempt of court for failing to testify about
confidential sources. "We are worried," said George Freeman, assistant
general counsel for The New York Times. "The judge's prior ruling
isn't the most optimistic." The judge "is not going to change his mind
and he is going to hold them in contempt," predicted Lucy Dalglish,
executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press, which follows such cases. "I don't see any way they won't be
held in contempt."

Source: Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000613547

LEGAL
Times receives two more subpoenas

The New York Times has received two more subpoenas from prosecutors
investigating who leaked the identity of former CIA officer Valerie
Plame to the press, E&P has learned. The subpoenas, one for reporter
Judith Miller and one for the Times, seek documents and other records
related to the paper's reporting on Plame. Miller received a previous
subpoena on Aug. 11 compelling her to testify before a federal grand
jury investigating the case. The two latest subpoenas arrived over the
weekend.

Source: Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000613371

NEWSPAPERS
Newspaper ads gained 4 percent in Q2

Second-quarter newspaper advertising amounted to $11.5 billion, 4.1
percent ahead of the year-earlier period, the Newspaper Association of
America, a Vienna, Va., trade group, estimated. "Although economic
growth slowed somewhat in the spring, total advertising in newspapers
grew a little faster than it had during the first three months of the
year," NAA vice president Jim Conaghan said in a statement. "Taken
together, first and second quarter advertising expenditures have given
the industry some positive momentum that we hope will carry through
the remainder of 2004."

Source: Jon Friedman, CBS.Marketwatch.com
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BBA7A962A%2DF962%2D4F99%2D89EA%2DEB5CCDD70422%7D&siteid=mktw

FIRST AMENDMENT
Inquiry Into FBI Questioning Is Sought

Several Democratic lawmakers called on Tuesday for a Justice
Department investigation into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
questioning of would-be demonstrators about possible violence at the
political conventions, saying the questioning may have violated the
First Amendment. In a letter to the department's inspector general
seeking an investigation, the three lawmakers said the F.B.I.
inquiries appeared to represent "systematic political harassment and
intimidation of legitimate antiwar protesters."

Source: Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/politics/18protests.html

FIRST AMENDMENT
Setbacks on press protections are seen

A ruling last week ordering a reporter for Time magazine to jail for
contempt and a subpoena later issued to a reporter for The New York
Times in the same case are the latest examples in what legal experts
characterize as an ominous trend for journalists: the weakening of
fundamental protections for the gathering and publishing of news that
had been generally viewed as settled since the Watergate era.

Source: Jacques Steinberg, New York Times
http://nytimes.com/2004/08/18/national/18press.html

ADVERTISING
First-half ad spending up 6.4 percent

Paid political messages, combined with an increase in spending among
traditional marketers such as Procter & Gamble, DaimlerChrysler and
Nissan, helped boost advertising by 6.4 percent for the first half of
the year, according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus, which is owned by Adweek
Magazines parent VNU. Ad spending was up across all 10 reported
media, led by local magazines (up 12.7 percent), followed by cable TV
(12.5), national newspapers (10), network TV (7.5), national magazines
(6), network radio (5.5), spot TV (3.3), spot radio (3), and local
newspapers (2).

Source: Katy Bachman, Adweek
http://www.adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000613644

MAGAZINES
Newsweek's Whitaker says ads shouldn't look like editorial

People who read magazines might want to try getting a read on Mark
Whitaker. As president of the American Society of Magazine Editors,
the 46-year-old editor of Washington Post's Co.'s Newsweek magazine
could well stand at the center of a burgeoning debate over how much
control magazine publishers ought to cede to aggressive advertisers.
These days, marketers routinely ask for ad layouts that look just like
the magazine they sponsor, or executions that use popular magazine
symbols or icons. ASME is set to conduct an extensive review of its
rules that aim to separate editorial content from advertising. Given
the new techniques advertisers are allowed to use elsewhere - product
placement, for example - Mr. Whitaker and his group have a heady task
ahead of them.

Source: Brian Steinberg, The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB109277872423194035-IRjfYNglaR3o5ynbHyHaq2Em4,00.html

NEWSPAPERS
Cronkite praises newspapers, buries broadcast news

Walter Cronkite is universally regarded as one of the premier TV
anchormen of our time, but in his heart he's a print guy. "I always
have felt myself more a newspaperman than a broadcaster," says the CBS
News legend, now 87, who began his career at a newspaper in Austin
before moving on to the old United Press wire service.

Source: Peter Johnson, USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2004-08-17-media-mix_x.htm

OBITUARY
Life magazine photojournalist Mydans dies

Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at
Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97. Peter Costiglio, a
spokesman for Time Inc., confirmed on Tuesday that the Larchmont,
N.Y., resident, famed for his war pictures of U.S. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur and stark images of migrant workers in the U.S. Depression,
had died.

Source: Reuters via Yahoo News
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=4&u=/nm/20040817/en_nm/people_photographer_dc

OBITUARY
Buddy Davis, top UF professor and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, dead at 80

Horance Gibbs ``Buddy'' Davis Jr., a former University of Florida
journalism professor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial
writing, died Sunday of a heart attack. He was 80. Davis retired in
1985 as a distinguished service professor emeritus after 31 years of
teaching at the UF College of Journalism and Communications. For many
of those years, he was also an opinion writer for The Gainesville Sun
and the New York Times Newspaper Group. He was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in 1971 for distinguished editorial writing.

Source: The Associated Press via Sun-Sentinel.com
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-817obuddydavis,0,1719289.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

HISTORY
This day in history

1991: Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.
1963: On Aug. 18, 1963, James Meredith became the first African
American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1914: President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality,
aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

PressNotes is edited by Matthew Cecil, Assistant Professor in the
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Oklahoma. Cecil can be reached at: matt.cecil@gmail.com

SPJ PressNotes for Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Compiled by Robert Greene
Ward Neff Intern
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Oklahoma

TODAY'S HEADLINES
* New York must balance freedom, security
* NY Mayor warns protesters they could lose "privileges"
* Reuters photographer shot in Najaf
* Kidnapped journalist was "aware of the dangers"
* Belo refunds $23 million to advertisers
* New Martha mag hits newstands with makeover
* Knight Ridder profiles last two weeks of 12 Marines
* Web sites provide new approach to election coverage
* Familiar media places still trump cyberspace
* Homeland Security skirting environmental disclosure rules
* Coates interim press critic at Village Voice
* Walter Cronkite lays down his pen
* Wired News changes rules of "internet"
* This day in history

FIRST AMENDMENT
New York must balance freedom, security

New York has a proudly oppositional DNA -- Democrats outnumber
Republicans 5 to 1 -- so protests come as no surprise. But at a time
of terrorism alerts and deep liberal unhappiness with President Bush,
the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 convention will test the government's ability to
secure the safety of delegates while allowing hundreds of thousands of
Americans to raise a constitutionally protected voice of dissent,
civil libertarians and city officials say.

Source: Michael Powell and Michelle Garcia, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6404-2004Aug16.html

FIRST AMENDMENT
NY Mayor warns protesters they could lose "privileges"

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg told a group of volunteers who plan to toil
at the Republican National Convention yesterday that he expected most
protesters who come to the event later this month would "be
reasonable," but he warned that "if we start to abuse our privileges,
then we lose them." Coincidentally, his remarks followed a protest by
a small group of police officers who were told to move away from the
doorway of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan or risk
arrest. The group was there awaiting the mayor's arrival to address
and thank the volunteers.

Source: Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/nyregion/17speech.html

INTERNATIONAL
Reuters photographer shot in Najaf

An Iraqi photographer working for Reuters new agency was shot in the
leg during fighting in the holy city of Najaf, journalists in the
agency's Baghdad bureau said. The photographer, who was not
identified, was shot by fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr as he was taking pictures with a U.S. forces in the
city, the journalists said on condition of anonymity.

Source: Associated Press via The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-Photographer-Wounded.html

INTERNATIONAL
Kidnapped journalist was "aware of the dangers"

Mr. Garen's father, Alan Garen, e-mailed a brief statement on behalf
of the family to The New York Times on Monday from New Haven, where he
is a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale
University. The statement said his son "went to Iraq fully aware of
the dangers, but determined to alert the world to the tragic loss of
an irreplaceable archaeological heritage."

Source: John F. Burns, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/international/middleeast/17journalist.html

NEWSPAPERS
Belo refunds $23 million to advertisers

Belo announced on Aug. 5 that its average circulation for the six
months ended in September 2003 was overstated by 5 percent on Sundays
and 1.5 percent for the rest of the week. In addition to the $23
million in cash payments, which the company plans to record as a
charge in the third quarter, Belo said yesterday that it planned to
spend an additional $3 million on its continuing investigation into
the matter and $4 million on newsprint costs related to credits being
offered to advertisers for future advertisements.

Source: Jacques Steinberg, New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/business/media/17paper.html

MAGAZINES
New Martha mag hits newstands with makeover

'Martha Stewart Living' redesign hits newsstands with less Martha,
more of tried-and-true formula. Some three months after Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) announced it would redesign its
flagship magazine in the wake of Martha Stewart's felony conviction
and steep advertising losses, the revamped cover hit newsstands over
the weekend. The new look leaves little doubt that the beleaguered
company, which continues to hemorrhage money, is still hedging its
bets.

Source: Krysten Crawford, CNN/Money
http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/16/news/midcaps/martha_magazine/

ONLINE MEDIA
Knight Ridder profiles last two weeks of 12 Marines

Knight Ridder's launch today of a powerful online multimedia package
chronicling the last two weeks of 12 U.S. Marines appears seamless,
but the project did not come easy for the newspaper chain's famed war
correspondent Joseph L.Galloway. "This was the hardest thing I've ever
written or edited," he admits. "I sat in a busy newsroom with tears
streaming down my face."

Source: Charles Geraci, Editor and Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000612911

ONLINE MEDIA
Web sites provide new approaches to election coverage

While most newspapers are utilizing their Web sites to supplement
coverage of the presidential race, the Los Angeles Times and The New
York Times have taken the frenzy over electoral votes and undecided
states to the next level with some unusual interactive options.

Source: Joe Strupp, Editor and Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000613155

ONLINE MEDIA
Familiar media places still trump cyberspace

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has good news for newspaper
editors, TV stations and bartenders: Cybernauts who bank, buy tickets
and search for news online are still more connected to the
brick-and-mortar world than to their keyboards. News media managers
can sleep a little better, knowing that 71 percent of people who get
news online and offline will get it offline most often, from places
like newspapers, radio and TV, according to the project's latest
study.

Source: The Associated Press via The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/technology/9417930.htm

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Homeland Security skirting environmental disclosure rules

About a dozen journalist organizations complained Monday that a
proposed Homeland Security Department policy would impede the public
release of information on environmental hazards. In comments filed
with the department, the groups said the agency is ditching some
routine environmental oversight in the name of security. "It must not
be assumed that a choice needs to be made between the environment and
security," the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government wrote in
response to the agency's directive.

Source: Elizabeth Wolfe, Associated Press via Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/9417607.htm?1c

DIVERSITY
Coates interim press critic at Village Voice

While more journalists of color are becoming public editors, or
ombudsmen who critique their own newspaper, it remains rare to have a
press critic of color in the mainstream media. But last week, amid the
upheaval at the Village Voice, Ta-Nehisi Coates became one.

Source: Richard Prince, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/040816_prince/

PEOPLE
Walter Cronkite lays down his pen

Lamenting the lack of depth in television news, the man considered the
most trusted person on TV, Walter Cronkite, ends his current job this
coming Wednesday right back where he started, as a newspaperman. In
his final column in a year-long stint writing for the King Features
Syndicate, Cronkite, 87, calls his decades as the nightly news anchor
for broadcast network CBS "rewarding," but "not entirely satisfactory"
due to time limitations that prevented deep reporting of any one
story.

Source: Bob Tourtellotte, Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=5989815

ONLINE MEDIA
Wired News changes rules of "internet"

Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the
"I" in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes
net. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to
capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was. Still, the
decision wasn't made lightly. Style changes are rarely capricious,
since change plays havoc with the editor's sacred cow, consistency.
But in the case of internet, web and net, a change in our house style
was necessary to put into perspective what the internet is: another
medium for delivering and receiving information.

Source: Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64596,00.html

HISTORY
This day in history

1987: Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle,
died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, having
apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical
cord.
1948: Former State Department official Alger Hiss faced his chief
accuser, Whittaker Chambers, during a closed-door meeting of the House
Un-American Activities Committee in New York. Hiss repeated his denial
that he'd ever been a Communist agent.
1863: Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston,
S.C., harbor during the Civil War.

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

PressNotes is edited by Matthew Cecil, Assistant Professor in the
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Oklahoma. Cecil can be reached at: matt.cecil@gmail.com

SPJ PressNotes for Monday, August 16, 2004

Compiled by Robert Greene
Ward Neff Intern
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication
The University of Oklahoma

TODAY'S HEADLINES
* American journalist kidnapped in Iraq
* FBI questioning political demonstrators
* Chilling implications in Matt Cooper case
* Military won't investigate Iraqi abuse report
* Freed British journalist recounts ordeal
* Philippines works to stop attacks on journalists
* Post "inside story" on Iraq coverage falls short
* LA Times Editorial: News should flow in Iraq
* Paper at hurricane's center still manages to publish
* Amidst storm, Florida papers ride out story
* Nebraska newspaper prints edition backwards
* Longtime Detroit sportswriter Joe Falls dead at 76
* This day in history

INTERNATIONAL
American journalist kidnapped in Iraq

An American journalist was kidnapped Saturday in the southern Iraqi
city of Nasiriyah while he was reporting on archaeological sites in
the area, the city's deputy governor Adnan al-Sharifi told AFP. "The
journalist Micah Garen was walking in the market in the town centre
when he was kidnapped by unknown men," Sharifi said Monday. Garen is
the founder and head of Four Corners Media, a company specialising in
film, photo and written documentaries with offices in New York and
Colorado, according to its website.

Source: AFP via Yahoo News
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1511&ncid=1511&e=4&u=/afp/20040816/wl_afp/iraq_us_hostage_040816083754

FIRST AMENDMENT
FBI questioning political demonstrators

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political
demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing
them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be
violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention
in New York.

Source: Eric Lichtblau, New York Times
http://nytimes.com/2004/08/16/politics/campaign/16fbi.html?hp

LEGAL
Chilling implications in Matt Cooper case

Should Matt Cooper go to jail? No one who knows the amiable Time
correspondent, who doubles as an amateur stand-up comedian, would
think so. Yet he faces imprisonment -- not for lying, cheating or
committing journalistic fraud, but for refusing to testify about
confidential sources. Cooper didn't "out" Valerie Plame as a CIA
operative - that was columnist Robert Novak, who refuses to say
whether he has been subpoenaed by a special prosecutor investigating
which senior Bush administration officials leaked the information.
Cooper wrote a follow-up piece questioning whether the administration
had "declared war" on Plame's husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson.
But a federal judge has held Cooper in contempt of court, and he faces
an unspecified period behind bars if Time's appeal fails.

Source: Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4038-2004Aug15.html

INTERNATIONAL
Military won't investigate Iraqi abuse report

The U.S. Army says it does not plan to investigate further an incident
of Iraqi prisoner abuse that occurred on June 29, despite the story
reported by the Oregonian in Portland two weekends ago that gained
national attention. In last Friday's Oregonian, Mike Francis, the
reporter who broke the original story, revealed that a U.S. military
public affairs officer in Iraq wrote via email Thursday, "We see no
reason for a further investigation." Col. Jill E. Morgenthaler, a
public affairs officer with the multinational force office, added,
"The battalion commander did a thorough inquiry."

Source: Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000612406

INTERNATIONAL
Freed British journalist recounts ordeal

The British freelance journalist kidnapped in Iraq last week yesterday
described how he managed to escape only to be recaptured when his
abductors stormed a government building where he had sought shelter.
James Brandon, 23, who was abducted from his hotel room in Basra on
Thursday, untied ropes from around his feet before putting a knife to
the throat of a woman who was guarding the door of the room where he
was being held and threatening to kill her unless she helped him.

Source: Jamie Wilson, The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1283856,00.html

INTERNATIONAL
Philippines works to stop attacks on journalists

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo ordered the police and justice
department to work with the media to solve and stop a spate of attacks
on journalists that has claimed six lives this year. Arroyo said in a
statement that "the violence committed against media practitioners has
reached a point of serious concern," after the latest attack, the
shooting of a radio broadcaster in the southern Philippines on Friday.
She praised House Speaker Jose de Venecia for offering two million
pesos (35,900 dollars) to anyone who can give information that would
uncover the identities of those behind the recent killings of
journalists.

Source: AFP via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040816/wl_asia_afp/philippines_crime_media_040816040442

COVERAGE
Post "inside story" on Iraq coverage falls short

Like The New York Times with its famous editors' note in May, The
Washington Post deserves credit for admitting serious mistakes in its
pre-war coverage of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. As with The
Times, however, it is a day late and a holler short.

Source: Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000612630

VIEWPOINT
LA Times Editorial: News should flow in Iraq

When Iraq's interim prime minister padlocked the Baghdad bureau of Al
Jazeera last week in the service of building a democratic Iraq, U.S.
State Department spokesmen nodded their heads. "We would note," one
said, "that the insurgency and others have made it a habit of using
the media to advance their agenda."
Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-jazeera15aug15,1,7937085.story

NEWSPAPERS
Paper at hurricane's center still manages to publish

It took a lot of extra effort, but the Charlotte Herald Sun, near the
epicenter of Hurricane Charley's weekend attack on Florida, made it to
the streets on Saturday. One staffer likened their experience to "Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride," a theme park ride across the state at Disney World.

Source: Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000612561

NEWSPAPERS
Amidst storm, Florida papers ride out story

Nearly every newspaper in Hurricane Charley's path across Florida
managed to publish regular, or even special, editions on Saturday,
though some were delayed. Many featured dramatic photos of the storm.
Newspaper web sites, meanwhile, provided vital emergency information
and incredible photos by local residents.

Source: Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000612549

NEWSPAPERS
Nebraska newspaper prints edition backwards

Custer County Chief publisher Deb McCaslin admits her newspaper, at
least for a week, was leftist. But not in the way most media critics
would presume. The weekly Chief was printed backward last week so the
front page opened to the left instead of the right, as do most
periodicals. McCaslin said the newspaper matched the edition to
International Left-handers Day. "Sometimes, you have to have fun," she
said.

Source: The Associated Press via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040816/ap_on_fe_st/leftist_newspaper_1

OBITUARY
Longtime Detroit sportswriter Joe Falls dead at 76

Joe Falls, the Hall of Fame Detroit News sports columnist who during
his 58-year career found a "story in all of us," has died at the age
of 76.

Source: Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/2004/obituaries/0408/12/sports-240916.htm

HISTORY
This day in history

2003: A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a
rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died
in the accident.
1977: Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.
1812: Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

PressNotes is edited by Matthew Cecil, Assistant Professor in the
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University
of Oklahoma. Cecil can be reached at: matt.cecil@gmail.com

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