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Presents suggestions to aspiring motion picture actors and actresses on handling interviews with the press and reporters. Being accompanied by a stunning model; George Clooney's promotion of the film "Ocean's Eleven"; Charming persona no reporter can resist; Style secrets of actress Tea Leoni; Parlaying talents into other show business arenas.

Editorial. Comments on the issues around the consolidation of power by Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao. Former party leader Jiang Zemin's ceding of effective command of the armed forces to Hu; Arrest of Chinese journalist Zhao Yan out of suspicion that he had helped a “New York Times” reporter get an advance report that Jiang was about to retire; Hu's tightening of media controls.

Reports the statement by U.S. President George W. Bush that there were questions about the authenticity of documents featured in a CBS News report suggesting that he received preferential treatment in the Texas National Guard. Bush's personal inspection of the documents; Confidence at the White House that the documents would be proved false; People involved in the reporting process.

The article reports on a meeting between a group of veteran journalists and Rod J. Rosenstein, deputy attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice, to review the government's policies on obtaining information from reporters. According to Rosenstein, the polices bar certain circumstances reporters would be told in advance of any plan to get their records. The department obtained private records from Fox News and The Associated Press journalists.

The author reflects on the diversity of reporters and staffs that should be in a news organization in the U.S. It mentions that only 2 in the 20-plus news reporters who covered the 2016 presidential campaign for The New York Times are African Americans and none were Latinos. It adds that the periodical Metro has only three Latino among its 42 reporters. It also discusses the need for news agencies to make their staffs less homogenous.

The article discusses the confirmation that reporters from Bloomberg News, a division of media company Bloomberg LP, had used the company's data terminals to monitor subscribers' activities and extract their private information. According to Bloomberg, reporters' abilities to access such information was discontinued after a complaint from bank Goldman Sachs. It notes that the information-gathering technique was used mostly in regard to financial news and may decrease Bloomberg's credibility.

The article reports that news organizations have grown increasingly skeptical of science journals such as "Science," "The Lancet," and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" (JAMA). The author reviews the case of South Korean genetic researcher Dr. Hwang Wook Suk, whose finding were found to be fabricated after being published in "Science." Comments from "Washington Post" science report Rob Stein are included.

Reports that Judith Miller, an investigative reporter for "The New York Times," was sent to jail after a U.S. federal judge declared that she was defying the law by refusing to divulge the name of a confidential source. How a last-minute deal between Matthew Cooper of "Time" magazine and a confidential source spared Cooper jail time; Miller's comments to Judge Thomas F. Hogan; Issue of a free press; Hogan's role in holding the two reporters in civil contempt for refusing to cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert operative of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Indication by Hogan that he would lift the contempt sanction against Cooper after he testified before a grand jury; How Miller joins a line of journalists who have accepted jail time rather than betray their sources' confidences; Views of Bill Keller, executive editor of "The Times"; Cooper's decision to drop his refusal to testify; Observation that Miller conducted interviews but never wrote an article about the CIA operative Valerie Plame; Statement from Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Publisher of "The Times." INSET: Journalists Who Served Time.

Focuses on the Chinese publication "Caijing," a business journal published twice monthly and reports on government and corporate corruption. Comments from the journal's editor, Hu Shuli, regarding never crossing the line that will prompt the government to close down the publication; Reasons why the Chinese government is granting greater latitude and press freedoms to business news outlets and media; Comments from Western observers regarding the journal, suggesting it is the best at what it does in China yet has toned down its investigations into government practices; Exposé's published in "Caijing" that received widespread attention China.

Offers a look at ethnic daily newspapers in New York City. Report that the ethnic newspapers keep immigrants in touch with their homelands while educating them on how to survive in the United States; Survey conducted by the Independent Press Association-New York that concluded that reporters for the ethnic press felt that government agencies routinely failed to provide them with information in a timely manner; Importance of the ethnic papers as a tool for civic education.

The author discusses a crisis in the Western news media which creates myths and dispels them on a pretense of giving the public with truth, relating his experience of working in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a freelance journalist, in which two successive wars killed over five million people.

The article offers the author's views regarding the possible reasons why the amount of attention paid by Americans to the Internal Revenue Service and Benghazi situations is well below the average for news stories, citing credibility, complexity, and zealotry.

The article reports that the "People's Daily Online" misinterpreted a spoof in the satirical newspaper "The Onion," reporting that the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un is the 2012 sexiest man alive. According to an editor at "People's Daily Online," the news organization already understand that the story they picked up was satire. It adds that the "People's Daily Online" decided to delete the story and the slide show with 55 photos.

In the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street eviction from Zuccotti Park, a mayoral aide e-mailed reporters. The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists ''supposedly'' wearing police press badges who ''allegedly encountered problems on the streets of New York.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MOSCOW -- An opposition protest in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi was violently broken up by riot police officers late Wednesday, scattering about a thousand demonstrators who had occupied a viewing stand where President Mikheil Saakashvili was scheduled to preside over a military parade on Thursday. As the crowds were dispersing in clouds of tear gas, a car in a three-car motorcade fleeing the violence ran down and killed a policeman, according to news agencies. The news agencies reported that the car was carrying Georgia's most prominent opposition leader, Nino Burdzhanadze, or her bodyguards. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On some days, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg can be quite charming and courteous with the press, congratulating reporters who have gotten married or given birth. Monday was not one of those days. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

COURTING THE PRESS In Many Tongues [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Shepard Fairey, the artist whose ''Hope'' poster of Barack Obama became an iconic emblem of the presidential campaign, has admitted that he lied about which photograph from The Associated Press he used as his source, and that he then covered up evidence to substantiate his lie. Mr. Fairey's admission, which he made public on Friday, threw his legal battle with the news agency into disarray. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A furious Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has upbraided The Associated Press for its decision to go against the wishes of a young Marine's family and publish a photograph of him after he was killed in Afghanistan. In a scathing letter to Tom Curley, president and chief executive of The A.P., Mr. Gates said that the news agency's decision was ''appalling'' and that the issue was one not of constitutionality but of ''judgment and common decency.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Michigan State's starters took questions from the news media, the dominant topic was the proximity of their campus to the Final Four. Reporters wondered if the almost-hometown Spartans could lift Detroit's sagging spirits or if it would be a distraction to the team. ''We have the whole city behind our back,'' Kalin Lucas said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A photograph showing four Iranian missiles heading skyward in unison was ''apparently digitally altered'' by Iranian state media, the news agency Agence France-Presse said Thursday. One of the missiles appears to be merely a copied image. But by the time that fact was reported, the photo had appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on many major news Web sites, including nytimes.com, BBC News, MSNBC and Yahoo! News. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that the newspaper "The New York Times" has sought a stay on an appeals court decision to review phone records of its two reporters. The paper asked the Supreme Court to bar a federal prosecutor from reviewing the records. The records would reveal to the government many of the reporters' confidential sources, contended its lawyers. The Chicago attorney wanted to investigate into how the reporters knew the government's plans to take actions against Islamic charities in 2001.

The article reports that reporter Bob Woodruff of ABC News is going to return to his work. It was announced by ABC News that Woodruff is going to tell as to what happened to him. While covering the war in Iraq, he got injured by a roadside bomb in January. The report which is to be broadcast will include interviews with people who saved his life.

Comments on mass media and the political culture in the U.S. Reference to fake news reporter Jeff Gannon; Gannon's role asking questions at news conferences with President George W. Bush; Perception of Gannon by the White House; Gannon's exchanges with Bush and administration officials, Background on Gannon, whose real name is James D. Guckert; Observation that Gannon did not work for a news organization; View that Gannon and others have been paid by either the administration or its political allies; Issue of propaganda; Public relations strategy of the Bush administration; Inability of real journalists to penetrate the White House.

Comments on the Bowl Championship Series and how college football teams are chosen to participate in the play. How Auburn, an undefeated team for the season was not included to play for the national championship; Reaction from The Associated Press which told the B.C .S. to stop using the A.P. news media poll in producing the team rankings; Praise for A.P.'s actions which may help reform a broken system; How the team selection process works; Call for change.

Relates the author's experience attempting to report on U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's election campaign for "The New York Times." The lack of seats for reporters on Air Force Two; Author's efforts to attend Cheney's campaign events every day; Images of Cheney.

Discusses the evolution of news coverage and delivery. Effects of the combination of new sources of news on newsmakers, media and the public; Impact of the increasing need for speed in news delivery on television networks and newspaper companies; Rise of saturation in media coverage.

Offers thoughts on political reporters and the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Attitudes of the reporters; Opportunities for reporters to meet their public; Comments of reporters, including Howard Fineman, chief political reporter for "Newsweek"; Aspects of convention reporting; How frustration is a part of the media experience; Rituals and drama during the conventions.

Offers a look at the media center that will be created for the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. Report that Barneys of New York is offering free shoeshines and shaves for men in the press corps; Services offered by concierges to the media representatives including clean clothing, computer repairs and replacement camera parts; Possibility that the news media will present positive news coverage.

Comments on coverage of business scandals by the U.S. media. Reference to the cases of chief executive officers Kenneth L. Lay and Martha Stewart; Influence of the national scandal Watergate on the nation's psyche; Suggestion that the media have been re-enacting the same story ever since; Views of experts, including Suzanne R. Garment, author of ?Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics?; Background on Watergate; How similar characters appear in each scandal; Corporate crime update. INSET: Within the Ritual of a Scandal.

Features investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh. Subjects of reporting; Awards and criticisms received; Articles wrote.

Reports that Martin Bashir, the British television journalist whose exclusive 2003 interview with Michael Jackson attracted some of the biggest television audiences of the season in both the U.S. and Great Britain, is close to a deal to move to the ABC News department. Details surrounding the negotiations; Details on the success of the reports done by the journalist.

Features pool reporting in the White House. Pool reporting experiences; Ways of writing and circulating pool reports.

Comments on how the U.S. press has fallen into cultural disfavor. How episodes of television show "Law and Order" were based on The New York Times' Jayson Blair scandal; "Shattered Glass," a film about The New Republic's Stephen Glass; Comments of Billy Ray, the film's writer-director; Author's view that the larger culture in which Blair and Glass thrived has done more longterm damage to the press; Thoughts on the atmosphere that pervades high-end journalism; The media and celebrities; Significance of Steven Soderbergh's series "K Street":" Mention of foreign correspondent Walter Durranty.

Discusses the implications of all-consuming news stories in American culture. Experience of the author being caught up in a news drama involving 'The New York Times'; Discussion of elements that are central to these stories; Coverage of the 'New York Times' scandal; Role of the Internet; Destructive side of such a news story.

Discusses New York State Governor George E. Pataki and a fund-raising letter that he wrote to supporters. Comments in the letter about liberals; Confusion over who Pataki was referring to; Possibility that Pataki's comments were geared toward the press in relation to his budget plan.

Reports that the Associated Press could not verify the existence of the sources of dismissed reporter Christopher Newton on an article related to criminal justice statistics, as of October 22, 2002.

Focuses on the response of a community newspaper in Sheldon, Iowa to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. Pieces written by reporter Russ Mitchell for 'The N'West Iowa Review,' a weekly paper; Comments of editor Jeff Grant; How the paper strove to find a local angle on the terrible events.

Focuses on the Associated Press daybook, a daily schedule of major events occurring in New York City which is compiled for members of the media. What Tom McElroy, who compiles the daybook, usually includes in it; Events which were listed in the daybook for Thursday, January 4, 2001; How some people try to fabricate events in order to get in the daybook.

Deals with the crackdown on reformers in Iran which resulted to the detention of two reporters in August 2000. Order issued by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of the country, concerning a bill on press reform; Stance of reformist members of the Parliament on press reform; Statement issued by Hamid Reza Jalaipur, publisher of five of the banned newspapers.

Reports that Associated Press (AP) has released detailed evidence to rebut critics of its news reports that said United States soldiers killed hundreds of South Korean civilians in July 1950. Implications of the AP news reports on South Korea-United States relations; Testimonies from Korean War veterans.

Reports on the attacks against Associated Press' Pulitzer Prize winning report documenting the massacre in 1950 of hundreds of South Korean civilians by American troops at No Gun Ri. Comments from Robert Port, initial editor on the project; Remarks from Jon Wolman, the executive editor of the news service, about the scrutiny of the No Gun Ri account; Information on witnesses' accounts of an apparent military atrocity.

Discusses the top 100 works of United States journalism for the century compiled by 36 judges under the aegis of New York University's journalism department as of February 1999. Mention of the stories of journalist John Hersey, Rachel Carson, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Edward R. Murrow and Ida Tarbell.

Narrates an experience as a reporter covering a murder case. Words used in his narration; His reminder when reporting a crime; Importance of protecting the rights of crime suspects.

Deals with the move of the Cuban Government for permitting the Associated Press to station a permanent correspondent in Havana, Cuba. News companies that sought permit to operate in Havana; News organizations that has difficulty in getting temporary visas to get a coverage in Havana.

Opinion. Comments on the threat to freedom of the press in Moscow. Reference to the case of the reporter Dmitri Kholodov's murder; Suspected reasons for the same and other similar cases; Status of the press in Russia; Assessment of the crimes against press reporters in Russia.

Editorial. Focuses on the changes which occurred at the 1998 White House Correspondents Dinner in the United States. Description of the atmosphere at past dinners; Identification of the changes in the atmosphere at the dinner.