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The Billionaire Mayor And Business News
When even public radio has business programs but no labor show, it's easy to understand how financial news mogul Michael Bloomberg was elected mayor of New York, writes Norman Solomon. From FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)

Trouble For Journalists Everywhere
In Ukraine, President Kuchma criminalizes the media. A military clampdown on an independent television station in Georgia sparks riots. And in Sudan, censorship has been the ongoing yield of the country's 18-year civil war. Keep up with international press freedom issues. From Index on Censorship

Principles Of The Press
Why doesn't the public trust the media? Tom Rosenstiel, in an interview with Steven Price, talks about where journalism has gone wrong and what to do, including a Viewers' Bill of Rights. From Media Watch

Grassroots PR In The Forest
As they fight to save old-growth forests, Australian tree-huggers are learning how to work the press. From The Paper

Reporters In Romania
An interview with businessman-journalist Marius Stoianovici at a time of transition, confusion, censorship and activism for the Romanian press. From Central Europe Review

New York's Endangered Ethnic Press
More September 11 fallout: the loss of perhaps a quarter of New York City's 210 ethnic publications, most of which are independently owned. Abby Scher talks about efforts to help. From Independent Press Association

Canada's Race To Represent
Two companies are vying to become Vancouver's first multicultural and multilingual broadcaster — a long-overdue move in Canada's second-most ethnically diverse city, says Karen Kawawada. From Thunderbird Journalism Review

E-Government: Dot Gone?
With FirstGov, we were going to be able to do it all - pay taxes, monitor legislation, question officials. But money and security issues cast the huge portal's future in doubt. Rebecca Fairley Raney reports. From Online Journalism Review

TV's "Gay Sensibility"
Stephen Tropiano asks why some TV shows are so popular with gay men, why they're mostly about women- and just exactly what it is that makes them gay. From PopMatters Media, Inc.

Zombies Of The Dot-Com Dead
In an article full of hypertext links, Alex Burns looks at the new Internet Archive and asks what a cybermuseum of "undead media" can tell us about the future. From The Disinformation Company


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