Shining the Hindsight Headlights on Ourselves Having been away, I come late to the subject of The New York Times’ remarkable… June 3, 2004 Geneva Overholser
A Free Press (For The Demographically Desirable) As historian David Kennedy responded to remarks by David Remnick at Stanford recently, he cited… May 21, 2004 Geneva Overholser
Good News, Bad News, and Apathy The newest crop of "Research You Can Use" from the Association for Education in Journalism… May 20, 2004 Geneva Overholser
The Finest Reporter of Our Time Behind a nondescript door, in one of those faceless modern buildings so common to downtown… May 13, 2004 Geneva Overholser
“Private” Scolding? Not On 1A More insider-secrets wordplay on the anonymous source front. In Thursday's lead Washington Post article, we're… May 6, 2004 Geneva Overholser
“Reporter’s Privilege?” How about Reporters’ Responsibility? We journalists tend to accept as an article of faith that we should protect our… April 29, 2004 Geneva Overholser
The Ethics of Underinvestment Even as USA Today publisher Craig Moon was tersely announcing Karen Jurgensen's "retirement," evidence was… April 21, 2004 Geneva Overholser
“… According to One Gutless Critic” Surely one of the worst (and most frequent) abuses of the blind quote is its… April 15, 2004 Geneva Overholser
Creative Uses of Anonymity Just as Robert Novak used anonymity to turn the honorable tradition of whistle-blowing on its… April 6, 2004 Geneva Overholser
Profit Pressures Over Time A slightly different version of this article originally appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Newspaper Research Journal,… April 6, 2004 Geneva Overholser
More Anonymous Watch The abuse and overuse of anonymity is at its worst in the big East Coast… March 31, 2004 Geneva Overholser
Quote Abusers Anonymous With both The Washington Post and The New York Times having proclaimed new and tougher policies about… March 25, 2004 Geneva Overholser
Making Money, Not Waves In his National Journal piece about an Oliphant cartoon that many Boston Globe readers found offensive,… March 18, 2004 Geneva Overholser
NY Post Readers Upset Over Suicide Photo The real lesson of the New York Post's decision to exploit a young woman's tragedy by… March 11, 2004 Geneva Overholser
So THAT’S Why He Didn’t Want to Be Named! So, I'm reading a story in The New York Times about presidential politics, and I… March 4, 2004 Geneva Overholser