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Comments on `The Christian Science Monitor' on the 90th anniversary of its first issue, which was published on November 25, 1908. The goal of enlightenment that the paper was founded on; How the `Monitor' has impacted the history of the 20th century; The path of service that the paper follows; The audience that the `Monitor' seeks to serve; What it offers that other newspapers do not have.

Interviews journalist and author Pete Hamill. His book `News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century'; The responsibility of journalists to separate the truth from lies; What Hamill feels the press corps in Washington, D.C. could do differently; The difference between covering government and covering politics; Why newspaper editors should live in the cities that their papers focus on; How computers and Web sites will impact newspapers.

Reports on the anticipated trend in newspapers expected from August 1995. Reasons for the same; Views of Jay Rosen, director of the Project on Public Life and the Press at New York University and one of the founders of the public journalism movement, on the issue; Discussion on public journalism. INSET: Three papers' project in `Public Journalism,' by A.M..