Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. I. A RESPONSIBLE PRESS
5. A Free and Responsible Press 53
6. The Press under Pressure 61
7. The Full Dimensions of the News 67
8. Take a Forthright Stand 71
9. Free Press and Fair Trial 76
10. Editorial Writing Made Easy 81
11. Attribution of News 91
12. Vested Interests of the Reporter 97
13. “No Other Allegiance” 106
14. Responsibility of the Reporter and Editor 116
15. II. ROLE OF THE PRESS
16. There Is No Substitute for a Good Newspaper 123
17. The Story Behind Little Rock 132
18. The Dynamics of Journalism 140
19. The Built-in Bias of the Press 153
20. Fewer Papers Means Better Papers 160
21. Can a Yellow Rag Change Its Color? 164
22. The Newspaperman 174
23. Why Should News Come in 5-Minute Packages? 186
24. TV News: Reporting or Performing? 191
25. III. NEWSMEN AT WORK
26. For That Hole in the Forms 203
27. Louis Stark's Own Story 208
28. Yankee on Broadway An Interview with Brooks Atkinson 213
29. The Reporter in the Deep South 221
30. Whaddya Mean, Local? 228
31. News at the Legislature 232
32. The Thalidomide Story 236
33. Crusading in a Small Town 241
34. Newspapermen and Lawyers 248
35. All the Same Face 255
36. How Best Prepare for Newspaper Work? 262
37. IV. THE WRITING
38. A Reader Unburdens 272
39. The Shape of the Story 280
40. The Business of Writing 292
41. V. FOREIGN AFFAIRS
42. Reporting in the Far East 303
43. Interpreting the Soviets 313
44. Congo: Reporter's Nightmare 317
45. Snaring the Dragon from Afar 323
46. The Grass Roots Foreign Correspondent 328
47. Our Foreign News 331
48. VI. GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS
49. Managing the News 338
50. Symposium: Reporting from Washington 343
51. The Press Lives by Disclosures 351
52. The Newsmen's War in Vietnam 356
53. Censors and Their Tactics 366
54. Why Diplomats Clam Up 375
55. VII. BOOKS AND MEN
56. The Enigma of W. J. Cash 380
57. Harold Ross: The Impresario 388
58. О. К. Bovard 396
59. Letter to a Young Journalist from His Father 404
60. Tom Stokes: What He Was Like 407
61. A Habit That Was Handed Down 410
62. APPENDIX. INDEX
63. I. LIST OF NIEMAN FELLOWS THROUGH 1964–65 421
64. II. LIST OF ASSOCIATE NIEMAN FELLOWS THROUGH 1964–65 432
65. INDEX 435