ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS

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4 April 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: George V. Lauder
Director of Public Affairs
SUBJECT: Address of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
. Action Requested: None. This is background information for your
to the erican Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) on Wednesday,
at the J.W. Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington,
D.C. t the corner of 14th Street N.W. and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Phone: [phone].
2. Arrangements: You are asked to be in the Commerce Room of the
hotel at 11:25 a.m. to meet with the head table guests and, as requested
by the Secret Service, enter the Grand Ballroom as a group. If this is
not possible, you are asked to be in the Grand Ballroom and seated at the
head table at 11:30 a.m. prior to President Reagan's arrival between
11:40 - 11:45 a.m. President Reagan will speak and take questions for a
total of thirty minutes, and then leave. At that point (about 12:15
p.m.), the luncheon service will begin. Robert Clark, ASNE President --~
and Vice President of Harte-Hanks Newspapers, will be on your left and
X i.S~? mtdt on your right. (See opposite for head table list and
complete agenda.)
At approximately 1:15 p.m. the post-luncheon program in which you are
participating will commence. You, Mr. Schmidt and Howard Simons,
curator of the Nieman Foundation and former managing editor for the
Washington Post 1971-1984 (See opposite for biographies), will move to
the lower stage in front of the head table. (This is the same area that
the President will have spoken from earlier.) A standing lectern with
microphone and a table with chairs and microphones will be in place for
the post luncheon program. You and Mr. Simons will be seated at the
table and Mr. Schmidt will introduce you. As you know, the subject of
the post-luncheon program is "National Security and the Press." You will
proceed to the lectern to deliver 15 minutes of formal remarks, return to
the table and then Mr. Simons will do the same. After Mr. Simons is
seated, Mr. Schmidt will moderate a question and answer period. You
and Mr. Simons may have questions to address to each other in the
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SUBJECT: Address of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
initial period. Then the discussion will be opened to questions from the
floor. The ground rules of this convention require that only members of
the Society may ask questions, and they will identify themselves and
their newspapers. The members will go to floor microphones in the
audience and be recognized by Mr. Schmidt. The program will conclude no
later than 2:15 p.m. Your remarks will be taped by the organization for
our records.
Audience: Approximately 1100 ASNE members, spouses, their sponsored
guests and journalism educators make up the audience.
Press: The entire convention will be broadcast by C-SPAN. In
addit of there will be maximum press coverage of the President's
address--about 60 newspaper reporters and a dozen or so television
reporters. Although ASNE is unable to predict how many will stay for the
post-luncheon discussion, they believe that the discussion will be
reported by the major wire services and the national dailies. C-SPAN
plans to cover this portion of the convention live. Photographers will
be allowed to photograph you for the first three minutes of your speech
and again during the first few minutes of the discussion period. You
have signed a release to Audio Transcripts so that they can record and
duplicate your remarks.
Background Information on ASNE: The American Society of Newspaper
Editors is an organization of more than 900 editors of daily newspapers
in the United States and Canada. Editors having immediate charge of
editorial or news policies of daily newspapers are eligible to join.
ASNE was founded in 1922. Its principal purpose has always been to serve
as a medium for exchange of ideas and the professional growth and
development of its members. ASNE is a volunteer organization, and most
of the work of the Society is accomplished by the standing committees, of
which there are currently 14. Seymour Topping, NEW YORK TIMES, chairs
the 1986 Program Committee. Chief Justice Warren Burger will be talking
to the group on Friday. (For further information see attached background
paper and list of speakers 1980 - 1985.)
Recent articles in the newspapers discuss ASNE's concern over lack of
public confidence in the ways that news organizations report the news,
First Amendment issues and coverage of last year's conference. (See
opposite NEXIS runs.)
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CONFIDENTIAL
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SUBJECT: Address of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Back round Information on the Nieman Foundation at Harvard
Universit : According to the NEW YORK TIMES and AP artic es, the Nieman
Foundation (Howard Simons is curator) operates the Nieman Fellowships,
which take 20 practicing journalists to Harvard for an academic year that
is generally rated the most prestigious study opportunity in journalism.
The Nieman Fellowships were established in 1938 in memory of Lucius
Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal.
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CONVE"10N : J. W. Marriott Hotel, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,
Washington, DC 20004. (202-393-2000).
ASNE REGZSTltliTlcN DESK: Ballroom level.
ASHE ST PF EMD11 111E14: Near registration desk on Ballroom level.
SPERXER ASS MLY P0IR19: Speakers for the general sessions will assemble
in the VIP Assembly Room, on the Ballroom level near the ASNE registration desk.
Luncheon speakers should come to the Commerce Room on the Mezzanine level for the
pre-luncheon reception and headtable assembly.
PRESS Rmal1: Press members covering the ASNE convention will find the
Press Room on the Ballroom level.
C-SPAN: State Room, Mezzanine level.
1986 ASRRE DETAILED CaNVFXl'Icii s JIS
(for internal use)
R*ndav. April 7
Longworth, Dirksen
& Justice Rooms
Noon-5 p.m. ASNE Board of Directors luncheon Capitol Ballroom G
meeting
Convention registration
7:00 p.m.
8:00 P.M.
Directors reception
Directors dinner
The Octagon
1799 New York Ave., NW
Tuesday. April 8
Longworth, Dirksen
& Justice Rooms
8:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
9 a.m.-noon
Noon-2:00 p.m.
2-5 p.m.
Breakfast meeting
Clark, Gartner, Seigenthaler,
Sitton, Stinnett
Registration
Board of Directors meeting
Convention workers luncheon
Committee Meetings
Bulletin
Credibility
Ethics
Human Resources
International Communication
Membership
Minorities
Nominations
Press, Bar
Readership & Research
Writing Awards
Floor Committee meeting
Opening Reception
Ballroom level
Capitol Ballroom G
Commerce Room
Capitol Ballroom K
Longworth Room
Rayburn Room
Dirksen Room
Cannon Room
Treasury Room
Capitol Ballroom H & J
Hart Room
Capitol Ballroom C
Capitol Ballroom B
Capitol Ballroom A
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Wednesday. April 9 continued
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ASNE Business Session
Robert P. Clark, ASNE president, presiding
Secretary's report, Katherine Fanning, Christian Science Monitor (2 minutes)
Treasurer's report, Edward R. Cony, Wall Streeet Journal (2 minutes)
Action on proposed by-laws amendment, Michael G. Gartner, Gannett Co.
(5 minutes)
"Persons of suitable qualifications who are directing editors having
immediate charge of editorial or news policies of daily newspapers which,
in the opinion of the directors, shall have attained adequate journalistic
standards are eligible for membership. Membership shall also be open to
directing editors of the Associated Press Canadian Press, and United
Press International.
Committee Reports (10:15 a.m.)
Minorities -- Loren F. Ghiglione, Bristol (Conn.) Press (10 min.)
Education for Journalism - John Seigenthaler, Nashville Tennessean
(5 minutes)
Human Resources -- Susan Miller, Scripps Howard (8 minutes)
Credibility -- David Lawrence Jr., Detroit Free Press (3 minutes)
Address by Robert P. Clark (10:40 a.m.)
"Three Blind Mice of Journalism"
Smithsonian Institution slide Longworth Room
presentation for spouses
AUDIO VISUAL REQUIREMENTS: Carousel slide projector with advance mechanism,
screen & microphone
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Thursday. April 10
7:30-9:00 a.m. Education for Journalism Hart Room
breakfast meeting
7:30-9:00 a.m. Freedom of Information Treasury Room
breakfast meeting
7:30-9:00 a.m. Russian Trippers breakfast Dirksen
7:45-8:45 a.m. Workshops
"A Dozen Good Ways to Improve Credibility - II" Grand Ballroom
(Wednesday morning workshop repeated, with another Salon III
group of editors discussing credibility solutions)
Michael Robinson for Los Angeles Times-Mirror Survey
Luke Feck, Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Wayne Lee, Simi Valley (Calif.) Enterprise Sun & News
Skip Perez, Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger
Elise McMillan, Nashville (Tenn.) Banner
William Ketter, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger
AUDIO VISUAL REQUIREMENTS: Carousel slide projector and screen
"COLOR: High Quality on a Low Budget" Salon IV
(Wednesday morning workshop repeated)
AUDIO VISUAL REQUIREMENTS: Carousel slide projector and screen
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration
9:00 a.m.-Noon General session Capitol Ballroom
Presiding: Jim Hampton, Miami Herald
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
"1986 Political Prospects"
Moderator: Robert Haiman, president, The Poynter Institute for Media
Studies, St. Petersburg, Florida
Speakers: Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.
Panelists: R.W. Apple Jr., New York Times national correspondent
Gerald M. Boyd, New York Times White House reporter
James Dickenson, Washington Post political correspondent
Organizer: Seymour Topping
10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
"A Close Look at Halley's Comet: Its Scientific and Human Impact"
Moderator and Organizer: Herman Obermayer, editor & publisher, Northern
Virginia Sun
Speaker: Ray L. Newburn, Jr., U.S. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
AUDIO VISUAL REQUIREMENTS: Carousel slide projector and screen
10:45 - noon
"South Africa: Apartheid & The Future"
Moderator: Joseph E. Lelyveld, London Bureau Chief, New York Times
Speakers: Dr. Ntahto Motlana, president, Soweto Civic Association
Herbert Beukes, South African Ambassador to the United States
James Hoagland, Washington Post correspondent
Organizer: Gene Roberts, executive editor, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Friday. April 11 continued
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration
9 a.m.-noon General session Capitol Ballroom
Presiding: William Hilliard, Portland Oregonian
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
"Merger and Acquisition Frenzy in the News Business: Where Will It All End?"
Moderator: James Batten, Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Speakers: Ben Bagdikian, dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University
of California at Berkeley
John Morton, Wall Street/security analyst, Lynch, Jones & Ryan, NY
Douglas Ginsburg, U.S. Asst. Attorney General/Antitrust Division
John Seigenthaler, publisher, Nashville Tennessean
Organizers: Jim Batten & Seymour Topping
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
"Children in America" - Children's Express interviews
Organizer: Thomas Weber (will introduce moderator)
Panelists: Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.)
Theresa Funiciello, co-director, Social Agenda, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Charles A. Murray, senior research fellow, Manhattan Institute
for Policy Research and author of Losing Ground: American
Social Policy 1.950-1980
Moderator: Jamie Zelermyer, 12 years old
Reporters: Albert Lin, 12 years old
Sarah Young, 13 years old
Matthew Colbert, 10 years old
Kim Wilson, 10 years old
11:00 - noon
"Summitry and the Future of U.S./U.S.S.R. Relations"
Moderator and Organizer: Seymour Topping
Speakers: Georgi Arkadievich Arbatov, director, U.S./Canada
Institute, Moscow
Robie M.H. (Mark) Palmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs
2 p.m. ASNE Board of Directors meeting Rayburn Room
Noon-12:30 p.m. Cash bar Foyer outside
Grand Ballroom
Speakers reception Commerce Room
12:30-2:15 p.m. Luncheon
Head table: committee Chairmen
Special seating: Foreign guests
Speaker: U. S. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole
Introducer: Rolfe Neill, publisher, Charlotte Observer
Arranger: Joseph Stroud, editor, Detroit Free Press
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Monday. April 7
noon
2 p.m.-5 p.m.
APME Executive Committee Meeting
Newspaper Features Council
Board of Directors Meeting
Jim Daubel's suite
APME Dinner (Board, Chairs, etc.)
Old Ebbitt Grill
675 15th Street, NW
APME Board Meeting & Luncheon
National Press Club
Wodnesday. April 9
8 a.m.
ANPA/NAB ABC Breakfast Meeting
Rayburn Room
Thursday. April 10
7:30 a.m.
American Committee
Rayburn Room
International Press Institute
Breakfast Meeting
South African trippers
Cannon Room
3 p.m.
Minorities Task Force
Steering Committee
5-6 p.m.
Reception for Women Members
Upper level/
of ASNE
Garden Terrace
6-7:30 p.m.
Penn State Alumni Reception
6:30 p.m. Cocktails
Russia Trippers Dinner
National Press Club
7:30 p.m. Dinner
Fourth Estate Dining Room
Friday, April 11
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HOWARD SIMONS
Curator of Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University
Howard Simons was appointed curator of Harvard University's Nieman
Foundation for Journalism on 14 June 1984. At that time, Jack Beatt of THE
WASHINGTON POST wrote that the Nieman Foundation would be a "hotbed of
intellectual activity, as well as an incubator of journalistic excellence"
under Howard Simons' leadership. AP reported that Simons describes himself as
a "first Amendment zealot" who "feels newspaper readers prefer hard news to
fluff."
Mr. Simons began his long association with journalism in Washington D.C.
as a reporter (1954-56) and editor (1956-59) with Science Service, a nonprofit
institution dedicated to the public understanding of science. He was a
freelance writer (1959-61) before joining THE WASHINGTON POST in 1961 as a
science reporter. He subsequently held the positions of assistant and deputy
editor before assuming the post of managing editor in 1971.
He is the author of three books. The Media and the Law, written with
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. in 1976, is the outcome of The Was ington Conference
on the Media and the Law (7-9 March 1975) sponsored by THE WASHINGTON POST and
the Ford Foundation. Top journalists, jurists, lawyers and government
appointees, including then-DCI Colby, participated. Simons' List Book was
published in 1977 and Business and Media in 1979.
Simons is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Overseas
Writers, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the White House
Correspondents Association. The awards and honors he has received include:
Nieman fellow at Harvard University (1958-59); Westinghouse awards from the
American Association for the Advancement of Science for science writing (1962
and 1964); and the alumni award from Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism (1974).
Simons received an A.B. from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1951,
and an M.S. from Columbia University in 1952. He served with U.S. Army
Intelligence from 1952 to 1954.
He was born in Albany, N.Y., on 3 June 1929. He is married and has four
children.
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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
RICHARD M. SOMDT, JR.
Partner in the law firm of Cohn and Marks, Washington, D.C., specializing in communica-
tions law.
A.B., J.D., University of Denver.
Employed in broadcasting from 1943 to 1949 in Denver, Colorado.
Lecturer on Communications Law, University of Denver College of Law, 1949 to 1962,
and Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1972-73.
Deputy District Attorney, City and County of Denver, Colorado, 1949-50.
Private practice of law in Denver, Colorado, 1950 through December 1, 1965, with
the exception of one year as Special Counsel to the United States Senate Special
Agriculture investigating subcommittee, 1959-60.
Served as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison, United States Information Agency
and Voice of America, Washington, D.C., December 1965 to October 1968.
President, Denver, Colorado, Bar Association, 1963-64; Member, Board of Governors,
Colorado Bar Association, 1956-57, 1962-65.
'Member, Colorado Supreme Court Nominating commission, 1964-65; Denver Judicial
Nominating Commission 1963-64.
Chairman, Standing Committee on Association Communications, American Bar Association,
1969-74; Member ABA Task Force on Courts and the Public, 1974-76; Chairman ABA
Forum Committee on Communications Law, 1979-81, Member Governing Board, 1981-84.
Co-Chairman ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Representatives of the Media,
1983 to date. Chairman Camax-ications Law Institute, Catholic University Law School,
1983 to date.
Member, Colorado Commission on Higher Education, 1964-65. :Kerber, University of
Denver Board of Trustees, 1964-80 (Honorary Life Trustee since 1980).
General Counsel, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1969 to date.
Washington Counsel, Association of American Publishers, Inc., 1969 to date.
Member of Board of Trustees, Washington Journalism Center (Chairman, 1980-83).
Member, Broadcast Pioneers Library Foundation, Board of Directors.
Recipient, Society of Professional Journalists/SDX First Amendment Award, 1980.
Elected "Fellow", Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), 1981.
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ROBERT PHILLIPS CLARK, VP/News, Harte-Hanks Newspapers, 1983--
Born: December 3, 1921, Randolph, VT
Married: Jeanne Orr Rice, December 14, 1949; 2 children
Education: A.B. Tufts U., 1942; M.A., Univ. of Missouri, 1948
Neiman fellow Harvard U., 1960-61
Memberships: American Society of Newspaper Editors (Dir., VP)
AP Managing Editors Assn. (Past Pres.)
International Press Institute (Dir.)
Residence: San Antonio, Texas
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[lead Table Invitees
Wednesday, April 9 ASNE luncheon
Introducing President Ronald Reagan:
Robert P. Clark, ASNE President
Harte-Hanks Newspapers, San Antonio, Texas
Post-luncheon segment on National Security and the Press:
William Casey, director, CIA
Howard Simons, curator, Nieman Foundation
Richard Schmidt Jr., ASNE legal counsel, Cohn and Marks
Candidates for ASNE Board of Directors Election:
Jo-Ann Huff Albers, Chambersburg (Pa.) Public Opinion
Larry Allison, Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram
John G. Craig Jr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
John 0. Emmerich, Greenwood (Miss.) commonwealth
John R. Finnegan, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press Dispatch
Sig Gissler, Milwaukee Journal
David Hall, Denver Post
Frederick Hartmann, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union and Journal
William Hilliard, Portland Oregonian
David Lawrence Jr., Detroit Free Press
Ted M. Natt, Longview (Wash.) Daily News
George Neavoll, Wichita (Kan.) Eagle-Beacon
Harry M. Rosenfeld, Albany (N.Y.) Times Union and Knickerbocker News
John Seigenthaler, Nashville Tennessean
Seymour Topping, New York Times
Gerald L. Warren, San Diego Union
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AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF
NEWSPAPER EDITORS
P.O. Box 17004
Washington, D.C. 20041
[phone]
ROBERT P. CLARK
HARTE-HANKS NEWSPAPERS
President
MICHAEL G. GARTNER
DES MOINES REGISTER
Vice President
KATHERINE FANNING
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Secretary
EDWARD R. CONY
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Treasurer
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS
1985-86
The American Society of Newspaper Editors is an organization of more than 900 editors of
daily newspapers in the United States and Canada. Directing editors having immediate charge of
editorial or news policies of daily newspapers are eligible to join. ASNE was founded in 1922. Its
principal purpose has always been to serve as a medium for exchange of ideas and the profes-
sional growth and development of its members.
ASNE is governed by a 20-member Board of Directors elected by the general membership
during the annual convention. The ASNE officers, in turn, are elected by the Board.
ASNE is a volunteer-run organization, and most of the work of the Society is accomplished by
the standing committees, of which there are currently 14. A brief description of the highlights of
the 1985-86 committee activities follows:
? Convention Program. Seymour Topping, New York Times, chairs the 1986
Program Committee. Convention attendance is limited to ASNE members, their
sponsored guests and journalism educators. Emphasis is on public issues and
newsroom problems. The 1986 dates are April 8-11 in Washington, D.C.
? Minority Affairs. ASNE has taken the lead in the effort to increase the number of
minority journalists in newspaper newsrooms. ASNE's goal is to achieve repre-
sentation of minorities in newsrooms equal to that in the general population by the
year 2000, or sooner. The Minorities Committee currently has a wide-ranging and
intensive program to heighten industry awareness and increase the flow of talented
minorities into journalism. To speed up progress in this effort, the Society has
added a minority affairs director to its staff. ASNE monitors the employment of
minorities through an annual survey of all U.S. newspapers. The 1985 survey
showed that 5.72% of full-time newsroom employees are minorities. A series of 16
regional conferences for editors and aspiring minority journalists is scheduled for
1985-86. Minorities Committee chairman is Loren F. Ghiglione of the Bristol
(Conn.) Press.
JUDITH G. CLABES JOHN O. EMMERICH LOREN F. GHIGLIONE WILLIAM A. HILLIARD LARRY JINKS JAMES B. KING DAVID LAWRENCE Jr. SUSAN MILLER
COVUgton Kentucky Post Greenwood (Min) Commonwealth Br,stol (Co's i Press Portland Oregonian Kn,gh!-Ridde, Newspapers Seattle Times Detroit Free Press Swops Howa'_ `w'wngapers
ROLFE NEILL BURL OSBORNE ARNOLD ROSENFELD JOHN SEIGENTHALER RICHARD D. SMYSER JAMES D. SQUIRES ROBERT M. STIFF SEYMOUR TOPPING
Charlotte IN C )Observer and News Dauas Morning News Austin Texas) Amettar.Slatesman Nashr.'lle Tennessea Oa. Ridge Tenn) Oak R oge' Chicago Tribune Tallahassee (Fla 1 Democrat Ne. van Times
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? Freedom of Information. For several years the Society's Freedom of Information
Committee has campaigned actively against secrecy in government and to open
channels of official information at federal, local and state levels. Along with
ASNE's legal counsel, members of the Fol Committee frequently testify before
Congress. Many of the activities of the committee are financed by ASNE's First
Amendment Fund, to which members and their newspapers make voluntary
contributions. Charles S. Rowe, Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, chairs the
committee.
? Press, Bar and Public Affairs. This committee, which works closely with the Fol
group, has been effective in opening lines of communication between the press and
the legal and judicial communities. Its purpose is to stimulate understanding and
support of free-press principles among attorneys and judges and to heighten
awareness of editors to concerns of the bar and bench. The committee participates
in a number of training programs for judges, including the National Judicial
College and the annual federal judicial conferences. ASNE organizes program
segments on the free press/fair trial issue at these events. Chairman of the commit-
tee is William B. Ketter, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot Ledger.
? International Communication. ASNE's International Communication Commit-
tee represents American editors in international forums and supports world press
freedom. The committee has organized and funded an American-based training
program for foreign journalists, which is administered by the Edward R. Murrow
Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University. Eleven journalists participated in
the first year's program, in 1984, and similar numbers will be trained in 1985 and
1986. The program lasts six weeks, including a four-week residence at a daily
newspaper. ASNE has raised nearly $ 150,000 to finance the 1985 program. (For
information on the program, write ASNE Project, Edward R. Murrow Center,
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155.) In 1984, the committee organized an
exchange between ASNE editors and representatives of the USSR Union of Jour-
nalists. There have been discussions regarding another exchange in 1986. Interna-
tional Communication Committee chairman is Earl Foell, Christian Science
Monitor.
? Readership and Research. This committee sponsors and manages major research
projects intended to improve newspapers. The current committee is developing a
study of how new readers relate to newspaper content. Also, the committee will
poll ASNE editors to determine their priorities for a research agenda for the next
several years. A review is under way of existing research data to find out what is
known, and not known, about minority readership of newspapers. Larry Jinks,
Knight-Ridder Newspapers, chairs the committee.
? Ethics. The Ethics Committee has published a number of books and surveys
examining the complex ethical decisions that journalists encounter in their work.
The committee is sponsoring a series of seminars for editors and publishers
focusing on newsroom ethical questions, especially as they relate to newspaper
credibility. Another current project is a study of how journalism codes of ethics are
used in courts of law. ASNE's Statement of Principles is a frequently consulted
reference in matters of journalism ethics. The Ethics Committee chairman is John
R. Finnegan, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press & Dispatch.
? Education for Journalism. This ASNE group works closely with journalism
educators to strengthen journalism schools and the accreditation process. Current
priorities are increasing private support of j-schools and enhancing the role of
newspaper professionals on journalism faculties. The committee and Board of
Directors have taken strong positions in support of accrediting principles that
require students to devote three-fourths of their undergraduate training to liberal
arts courses, the remaining quarter to journalism school classes. John Seigenthaler,
Nashville Tennessean, chairs the committee.
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? Human Resources. This committee has produced a popular Newsroom Manage-
ment Handbook, and in 1985-86 is developing seminars focusing on segments of
the handbook. Susan Miller, Scripps Howard, Cincinnati, chairs the committee.
? Credibility. Following the completion of a landmark study of how the public
views the credibility of the news media, the committee is developing practical ideas
that can be implemented by the nation's daily newspapers. David Lawrence Jr.,
Detroit Free Press, is chairman.
? Writing Awards. ASNE makes four awards annually to recognize outstanding
writing in daily newspapers. The 1986 awards will cite high achievement in com-
mentary, editorials, deadline writing and non-deadline writing. A book showcasing
the entries of the Distinguished Writing Awards winners is published each year by
the Poynter Institute. Writing Awards Board chairman is Anthony Day of the Los
Angeles Times.
? The Bulletin. This nine-times-yearly magazine is the nation's oldest journalism
review. It is sent free to ASNE members and is available to non-members by
subscription (details follow). The Bulletin Editorial Board is headed by
Burl Osborne, Dallas Morning News.
? Membership. The Membership Committee recruits and screens member appli-
cants for submission to the Board of Directors. To join the Society, editors must
meet the following criteria prescribed in the ASNE bylaws: "persons of suitable
qualifications who are directing editors having immediate charge of editorial or
news policies of daily newspapers which, in the opinion of the directors, shall have
attained adequate journalistic standards." The ASNE bylaws also provide for a
retired membership category. Annual dues are $325 for active members and $50
for retired members. There is a $250 initiation fee. The Membership Committee is
headed by Larry Allison, Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram.
? Nominations. Nominees for the Board of Directors are selected by the Nomina-
tions Committee, after careful study of members' qualifications, including service
to the Society. Robert M. White II, Mexico (Mo.) Ledger, is chairman.
ASNE Foundation
The Society created a nonprofit foundation in 1979 to help fund worthy projects generated by
ASNE committees and the ASNE Board. During 1984, the Foundation disbursed more than
$285,000 for such projects. William H. Hornby, Denver Post, is ASNEF president.
Headquarters and staff
ASNE headquarters in Reston, Va., handles the administrative work of the Society and is an
information clearinghouse on a wide variety of questions and problems relating to newspapers.
The staff is headed by Lee Stinnett, executive director. ASNE minority affairs director is Carl E.
Morris, and Elise S. Burroughs is publications director. Christine Schmitt is secretary/financial
and Nancy Andiorio is secretary/administration. Richard M. Schmidt Jr. of the Washington law
firm of Cohn and Marks is ASNE legal counsel. The ASNE mailing address is P. O. Box 17004,
Washington, DC 20041. Telephone [phone].
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Abel, Elie - Stanford University 1981
Abrams, Floyd - lawyer 198
Anderson, Dave - NY Times 1981
Anderson, John - candidate 19.30
Anderson, Walter - Parade 1981
Andrus, Cecil - Interior Secretary 19:33
Are?9ood, Richard - writing aw. win. 1985
Armour, Norton - law'eer 1980
Arnold, Robert C. - nuclear station 1981
Aubespin, Mervin - NABJ 1985
Top1
The UNESCO Resolution - P
News and the Law - P
Athletes vs. The Press - P
Politics - S
Workshop on Sunday Magazines - P
Western Resources - S
Writing Workshop - S
The Law - P
Three Mile Island - P
Minorities !4orkhoP
Baker, James 1981
Barabba, Vincent - Bureau of Census 19:30
Barone, Michael D. - researcher 1980
Beatty, Warren 1983
Becklund, Laurie - LA Times 1982
Ber?aland, Bob - Agriculture Sec. 1980
Bessie, Simon Michael - Harper & Row 1980
Bethea, Elvin - Houston Oiler 1981
Blackburn, Ben - Rocky Mtn. News 1983
Block, Ed - AT:;T 1981
Bloom, Lary - Miami Herald 1981
Boccardi, Louis 0. - AP 19:$
Bogart, Leo 198:3
Bok, Sissela - -author 19:32
Bond, Julian 1985
Bonner, Ra?'mond - NY Ti.ae?s 19822
Sor, Jonathan - writing award winner 1985
Bradlee, Sen 1981
Brown, Joye - Chicago Tribune 198.E
Brown, L.arr'd - coach 19:33
Brzezinski, Dr. Zbi'niew 1980
Buchw?ald, Art 1981
curid,e, McGeorge 1982
Bur?~oon, Michael S Judee 1982
Bu_h, George - candidate 1980
1951
Butler, Dr. Robert 984
Byrd, Joann 9 ,113.
Caddell, Patrick - researcher 19:30
C.aldicott, Or. Helen 19:37
Cannon, Lou - White House corres. 19:35
C?antril, Albert - researcher 1981
Caplan, Dr. Arthur - bioethicist 19.5
Carter, President Jimn'i 1980
Chimerine, Lawrence - econowist 1911'5
The Deputy Presidents - S
Here Come the '80s - P
Here Come the '80s
Luncheon Speaker
Reporting from El Salvador - P
Foreign Affairs - S
The Law - P
Athletes vs. The Press - P
The Day's News - P
The New Technology - P
Workshop on Sunday Magazines - P
Luncheon Speaker
Where are we headed with Public - P
Editorial Ethics Under Fire - P
Black Experience in America - S
Reporting from El Salvador - P
Writing Workshop - S
Work-shop on Ombudsmanship - P
Journalism Education - P
Business of Sports - F'
Foreign Affairs - Banquet Speaker
Ban?auet ?pe?a ker
Nuclear Arms Race - S
Who' ?-? Real l'd Rulnin?? the Paper' - S
Politics - S
Luncheon ''ne.aker
C-:ntur'a of Old Age - S.
Re_e.ar':n as Professionals - P
Here Come the "C"Os - P
Nuclear Arms - P
Re.a?a.an' - Second Term
Po1lin?r9 - P
Medical super Stories
Luncheon '>>?aker - S
F1=Cal Polii'a a Economic Growth -
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Art.. to Pr??s . Re a?e.an
l3e'oer, Ge')r?3i? Anne - oluiani_t
Gilder, George
Giles, Robert
Gilinzki, Victor - NRC Commissioner
Ginn, John
Glenn, John
Gollin, Albert
Goodman, Ellen - Boston Globe
Grace, J. Peter
Gray, Richard - Dean
Green, Bill - Washington Post
Green, Bill - Duke University
Greenman, John
1930 Here Come the 'cos - P
19:32 President h the Press - 3
1985 Reagan'_ Second Term -
19,35 SishoN?s on the Firing Line - P
1981 Panel on Economic.. - P
19133 Ethics Workshop - P
192:3 Management Workshop - P
1934 Content Workshop - S
1981 Three Mile Island - P
1953 Research/Headed in Ethics - P
1931 Is There Life After Reagan - P
19:33 Research/Headed with the Public - P
1981 Sex, Sexism and the Sexes - P
1934 Luncheon Speaker - 3
198:3 Research/Headed as Professionals-P
1983 Journalize Education - P
1981 Workshop on Ombudsmanship - P
1924 i#inans Affair - P
19:35 Minorities Workshop
Haig, Alexander - Sec. of State
Haiman, Robert
Halvorsen, Dave
Harris, T. George
Hart, Senator Gary
Hart, Peter
Hartley, Robert
Hartman, Barrie
Hassri,.k, Peter
Hawee, David
Ha'+es, Larry
Herman, Mark - Denver Broncos
Hills, Tina
Hopcr?aft, David
Hornby, Sill
Howar, Barbara - .author
Howell, 0?bor'.ah
JaC.oby, Al - San Diego Union
Janen i=h, F' u1
Jarrett, Will
J-efferies, Robin
Jenkins, Loren - Washington Post
,Johnson, Ken - Dallas Tiines Herald
Kahn, Alfred - Pre'. Advisor
Kaiser, Robert - Wa_hin-aton PI),-.t
Karin, Peter - Wail Street Journal
K 11-j, Tiie - Denver Fort
Kelly, Tc'n - Palm Beach Post
K:~ini', Pete etttative Jack - N.Y.
Kennedy, Senator Edward
K?nned'i, iiioos'he3d and Louisa -
1981 Luncheon 3ieaker - S
1921 Workshop on Ombudsmanship - P
1983 Editing Workshop - P
1984 Era of Carnal News - S
19,31 Is There Life After Reagan - P
1981 Polling - P
1'9:33 Research/Headed in Ethics - P
192: Research/Headed in Ethics - P
1913:3 Rocky Mountain West - P
191135 Minorities Workshop
1925 Schools Workshop
198:3 Business of Sports - P
1981 The UNESCO Resolution - P
198:3 Research/Headed as Professionals-P
19,33 Bill Hornb'i'_ West - S
1980 The "Washington Novel" - P
1965 Bishops on the Firing Line - P
1923 Representative Democracy - S
1934 Political Candidate - S
1981 Workshop on Ombud_manship - P
19:113 Editing Workshop - P
19 Research/Headed with the Public - rr
19x5 Graphics Work_i?iop
1922 Reportlr3 from El Salvador - P
1'981 Workshop on Sunday M?ag.azine?s - P
19130 Inflation - S
1965 Soviet/Aaerican Relations - P
19.:,: Nat'l New. Player- - P
19:3 3 The 0ay' Y News - P
1'?33 Libel Workshop - P
1`?' 2 R?a.3.9noa11cs - P
1930 Politic. - S
1A. The Pr,3s- .and Us - :3
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Noa.;le1, Luis 0. - UPt 19;315
Nolan, Martin - Boston Globe 19,'4
Norton, Eleanor Holmes - Urban Init. 1981
- Georgetown Univ. law professor 19$5
Olson, James E. - Bell Sy-stem 1982
Ortner, Robert - economist 1983
Osborne, Burl 19:33
Oukrop, Carol - Kansas State Univ. 1983
Packer, Billy - CBS Sports 1983
Pearlstine, Norman 1984
Peters, Charles - Washington Monthly 1984
Petersen, Donald E. - Pres. UAW 1982
Pew, Too - As. West Magazine 19,33
Pfister, Larry - Time/Video Info. 1982
Phelps, Robert 1983
Popkin, Samuel - Univ. of Calif. 1982
Powell, Jim 19:33
Powell, Jody 1981
Power, Sarah Goddard
19:34
1981
Quinn, John 1983
Quinn, Sally - Washington Post 19:31
Ramey, Dr. Estelle 1984
Raniere, Ken 1955
Ranney, Austin - Am. Enter. Inst. 1982
Reagan, Ronald - candidate 19;30
Redford, Robert 1983
Reuben, Don - lawyer 19014
Riding, Alan - NY Times 1983
Rivlin, Alice - Congre?s. Budget Off. 19:32
Roberts, Eugene 1984
Roue,'ts, Glenn 1983
Robert:, Paul Craig 1985
Rockford, Marge - KOATV 1983
Rc'h.atyn, Felix 192
19,34
Rollins-, Ed - Reagan Camp. Dir. 1984
Rooney, Andy 19:33
Rosenfeld, Arnold 1980
19:32
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Rowe, Charles 190:3.
Ro,izter, Vermont 19:34
Ruhe, Douglas 1983
Ryan, Patricia - People il-a-ziazine
Nuclear Arms Race -
Soviet/Ameri-:an Relatlonz -
Luncheon Speaker
UPI Looks Ahead - S
Humor in Newspapers - P
Is There Life After Re.a San - P
Black Experience in America -
Telecommunications - S
Economy - S
Editing Workshop - P
Ethicz Workshop - P
Business of Sports - P
Winans Affair - S
The Other Side of the Story - P
Big Labor/Big Business - S,
Rocky Mountain West - P
Newspapers S Electronic Info - P
Research/Headed in Ethic - P
issues of 84 Presid. Campaign - .
News in the News Business - P
What's Wrong with the Wash. Pres
Corps - P
The Other Side of the Stor'a -
The UNESCO Resolution - P
Luncheon Speaker
Sex, Sexism and the Sexes - P
Sex 8 Long Life - S
Graahics Work.-hop
Issues of 84 Presid. Campaign - S
Politics - S
Public Figures -
Newspapers and the Law - P
Latin America - P
Rea9?an~!A1C_? - P
Writin?3 Workshop - P
R?.e.;r,_h/He-aid ed with Public - P
Fiscal Polic'd S Economic Growth - S
The Day' z News - P
Big Cities Under Sie?3e - P
Economic Polic'~ - P
The Politics of 1984 - S
can 9Uet 3p'. a ker
Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - P
Reporting from El Salvador P
News in the News Business - P
The Goal of Equal Oeterren':e -
Workshop - P
Writing Workshop - P
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Whitten, Le - author 1980
Wie?ahart, James - NY 0.3i1'i News 1981
Wilhoit, Prof. G. Cleveland 198
Wi1ke, Curtis - Boston Globe 1984
Will, George - columnist 1985
Williams, Phillip L. - Time.: Mirror 1912
Wirth, Rep. Timothy - Colo. 1982
Wirthlin, Richard 1981
Woodhull, Nance 19;8;
Woolle'i, John 1981
Luncheon Speaker
Represent at iVe Dem,)crac' - S
The "Washington Novel" - P
The W.ahington Pre?s; Cores - P
Re_.earch/Heeded as Prof e_. ionyl_ -P
The Other Side of the Storv - P
Bishops on the Firing Line - P
Newspapers Future as a Business - S
Telecommunications -
Polling - P
Editing Workshop - P
The New Technolog'i - P
Yamashita, Dr. Elizabeth 19813
Young, Mayor Coleman - Detroit 19'2
Ziegler, Ron 1981
Journalism Education - P
Big Cities Under Siege - P
What's Wrong with the Wash. Press
Corps. - P
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December 5, 1985, Thursday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section A; Page 21, Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 831 words
HEADLINE: MORISON RECEIVES 2-YEAR JAIL TERM
BYLINE: By BEN A. FRANKLIN, Special to the New York Times
DATELINE: BALTIMORE, Dec. 4
BODY:
... Jane's Defense Weekly, a British naval journal, copies of classified
satellite photographs of the Russian vessel in drydock, under construction,
which were then widely published elsewhere.
Although the Government's decision to prosecute Mr. Morison under the
espionage laws has been described by some constitutional authorities, and in
many newspaper editorials, as a threat to freedom of the press, there was only
scattered reaction from news organizations today.
Spokesmen for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press and the Radio and Television News Directors Association said that their
organizations had not yet decided whether to join the American Civil Liberties
Union, who provided Mr. Morison's lawyers, in pressing the appeal.
In a statement, Terry McGuire, vice president and general counsel of the
publishers association, said his organization was considering "whether the
long-term effects of the Morison ...
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SECTION: Section D; Page 12, Column 4; National Desk
LENGTH: 852 words
HEADLINE: A REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: CREDIBILITY IS KEY WORRY AS A.P. EDITORS MEET
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BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES, Special to the New York Times
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1
BODY:
... looked like a threatening outsider.
For instance, libel juries are now overwhelmingly likely to bring in verdicts
against news organizations.
''It gets back to this credibility thing,'' said Frank McCulloch, managing
editor of The San Francisco Examiner, in a libel workshop. ''If the theory that
a jury reflects what the public thinks of us is valid, that is the heart of the
problem.''
Both the Associated Press Managing Editors and the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, another major association, are increasingly likely to be
headed by editors who are also publishers or are corporate executives of chains.
For instance, the A.P. group's new president is James F. Daubel, president,
publisher and editor of The News-Messenger in Fremont, Ohio.
The business side of newspapering is increasingly on the minds of the
editors, according to Michael R. Fancher, managing editor of The Seattle Times,
who organized a presentation on ...
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October 30, 1985, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section A; Page 13, Column 1; National Desk
LENGTH: 770 words
HEADLINE: POLLS COMPARE JOURNALISTS' AND PUBLIC VIEWS
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES, Special to the New York Times
DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29
BODY:
... Discussed
A possible lack of public confidence in the way news organizations report and
present the news has been a leading concern of news executives in recent years,
with the issue of press credibility frequently appearing on the programs of
press conventions of all kinds.
The poll results grew out of an earlier study by the same organization of
public attitudes toward the press. It was presented last spring to the
American Society of Newspaper Editors. In that survey, 1,600 people were
polled by telephone and 1,002 returned follow-up questionnaires. The polling was
carried out over six weeks in December and January.
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The Associated Press Managing Editors, with financial assistance from several
communications companies and The Associated Press itself, commissioned a
matching poll of newspaper journalists that would compare public and press
attitudes. In this survey 1,333 journalists from 51 daily newspapers, ...
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October 18, 1985, Friday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section A; Page 18, Column 4; National Desk
LENGTH: 454 words
HEADLINE: A.C.L.U. VOWS TO FIGHT MORISON CONVICTION
BYLINE: By BEN A. FRANKLIN, Special to the-New York Times
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, Oct. 17
BODY:
... all public debate an national security matters. By threatening
indictments under the statutes under which Mr. Morison was convicted, the
Government will be able to determine what information can be published.''
Mr. Halperin said he was "amazed'' at the lack of reaction to the Morison
trial ''in the press or from organizations representing the press."
Several other groups with interests in First Amendment issues, including the
American Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, did not join the civil liberties group in protesting the
Morison case. But spokesmen for both groups said today that they might seek to
enter in an appeal by Mr. Morison.
Terry McGuire, vice president and general counsel of the publishers'
association, said the organization had ''kept an eye on'' the Morison trial, but
added: ''We more frequently intervene when these matters reach the appellate
court. We have ...
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September 22, 1985, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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LENGTH: 166 words
HEADLINE: Alfred Kirchhofer, 93, Editor At The Buffalo Evening News
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... years old.
Mr. Kirchhofer, a native of Buffalo, joined the afternoon newspaper as a
church reporter in 1914. After serving as the newspaper's first Washington
correspondent, he was appointed managing editor in 1927. He became executive
editor in 1956 and retired in 1966.
Mr. Kirchhofer was known for his strict injunctions against gruesome
descriptions and his admonitions about good taste. He was a force within the
American Society of Newspaper Editors in the 1930's and 40's and later was
president of the American Council on Education for Journalism, an accrediting
group for journalism schools.
He was assistant director of Herbert Hoover's successful Presidential
campaign in 1928 and the publicity director of the unsuccessful 1936 campaign of
Alfred M. Landon.
He is survived by a son, Robert, of Buffalo.
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August 11, 1985, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: Outlook; L1
LENGTH: 2056 words
HEADLINE: The Latest Brand of Libel Suit Is Won or Lost on The Courthouse Steps
BYLINE: By Eleanor Randolph; Eleanor Randolph covers the media for The Post.
KEYWORD: LIBEL
BODY:
.., it at the jury level and winning it on appeal.
But there are some who see this as a natural turn by the legal profession to
fresh corporate territory: After the chemical companies and the automobile
companies, we now have the media companies.
"All I ever do is once in a while I sue the hell out of one of those giant
corporations that own a lot of your papers," Gerry Spence told the American
Society of Newspaper Editors last year. "I never sued one of you fellows."
Spence, often called "The $100 Million Country Lawyer" who won cases for the
estate of Karen Silkwood and beat Penthouse in libel suit by the former Miss
Wyoming, said that the public is often afraid of those who are powerful in this
society. And he said they fear the power of the press.
"What do we do with things we are afraid of? What do you do with a snake? You
step on its head," Spence ...
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August 5, 1985, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: Metro; C3
LENGTH: 613 words
HEADLINE: Newsroom Equality
BYLINE: DOROTHY GILLIAM
KEYWORD: GILIAM
BODY:
... both within and outside the profession."
Noting that minority women, in particular, desire careers in management, the
study found that they are the least likely of all groups to be given managerial
responsibilities.
"The press helped to push civil rights onto the nation's agenda," Cose said,
"but newsroom equality has been embarrassingly slow in coming."
The journalism profession, which writes about the hopes and frustrations of
others, has fallen far short of its own goals. The American Society of
Newspaper Editors (ASNE) predicted in 1978 that the percentage of minorities
in the nation's newsrooms would be equivalent to their percentage of the
population by the year 2000, and subsequently many top executives declared that
they were going to do something about it -- and did.
But according to ASNE figures, minorities constitute less than 6 percent of
the journalists employed in newsrooms; fewer than 40 percent of the nation's
newspapers employ any black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American journalists ...
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July 21, 1985, Sunday, final Edition
SECTION: Outlook; Editorial; For The Record; G6
LENGTH: 289 words
KEYWORD: FTR
BODY:
From an address by Michael O'Neill, former president of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, printed in the Nieman Reports, Summer 1985:
How are our perceptions and our thinking processes being affected? In a
number of ways:
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First, television alters the prisms through which we see the world. The most
distant events are swept inside our personal horizon . . . from the Super Bowl
here to great human disasters in India and Ethiopia.
We no longer have to manufacture our own images out of aging words and older
pictures. Real-time ...
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July 10, 1985, Wednesday, Final Edition
SECTION: First Section; Editorial; Ombudsman; A18
LENGTH: 710 words
HEADLINE: When Ombudsmen Get Together
BYLINE: Sam Zagoria
KEYWORD: OMBUDS
BODY:
Annual meetings of the Organization of News Ombudsmen provide members with a
change of scene and a chance to swap stories about difficult complaints from
readers and tough responses from editors and reporters. This year the meeting in
Minneapolis had a special lift -- a recent American Society of Newspaper
Editors report found that readers of papers with ombudsmen had extra
confidence in the paper's news content.
At one session, the head of the ASNE credibility committee, Publisher David
Lawrence Jr. of the Detroit Free Press, drew applause as he described himself as
a "newspaperman in the midst of changing his mind about the place ombudsmen
might have in good newspapering.? Earlier he had taken the view that every
employee was a ?reader's representative," ...
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June 23, 1985, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: First Section; A20
LENGTH: 1272 words
HEADLINE: Coverage of Hijacking Raises Question of Who's Exploiting Whom
BYLINE: By Eleanor Randolph, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: MEDIA
BODY:
... for the first tree," Jennings said.
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"On the other hand, there is no obligation on the part of any of these people
to invite us into their homes.'
Jennings said that psychologists have told his staff that in some cases
"there is actually a cathartic effect" in giving such an interview. He said that
when the Marine compound was bombed in 1983, "people telephoned me and said, 'My
son was killed, and why haven't you called me?' "
Louisa Kennedy told the American Society of Newspaper Editors a few
months after her husband returned in 1981 from more than a year as a hostage in
Iran that her anger was not aimed at the media.
"It was, in the final analysis, a great comfort to all of us that we were
able to talk with the media, to act with it, to generally pursue what was
terribly important to us: keeping the consciousness high in this country for the
return of the hostages under the proper terms," she ...
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LENGTH: 643 words
HEADLINE: BAN ON COMPUTER DATA DISCLOSURE IS DRAWING FIRE
BYLINE: By DAVID BURNHAM, Special to the New York Times
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, May 24
BODY:
A new computer crime law has drawn objections from a variety of people,
including representatives of the Government, a civil liberties group and
newspaper editors.
Witnesses for the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the American
Civil Liberties Union testified Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Crime that a provision of the computer crime law would allow the
prosecution of Government ''whistle-blowers" who disclosed unclassified
information.
A senior Justice Department official criticized another section of the law on
the ground that it placed too many restrictions on the Government's authority to
investigate computer crime.
The most controversial ...
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LENGTH: 660 words
HEADLINE: JOBS ARE FOCUS AS HISPANIC JOURNALISTS MEET
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
DATELINE: TUCSON, Ariz., April 27
BODY:
... conference are Hispanic journalists who already have jobs but want better
ones.
Many of the Hispanic journalists regard the presence of major news
organizations here as a welcome signal, but statistics are less encouraging.
On newspaper staffs, the proportion of Hispanic people and members of other
minority groups, including blacks, American Indians and Orientals, showed a
slight decline in 1984, according to a survey by the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
Organizers of the conference knew of no figures on minorities in broadcast
news, but the editors' survey estimated minority representation in newspaper
newsrooms at 5.72 percent, a drop from 5.76 in in 1983 after several years of
growth.
Such statistics prompt an angry response from some leaders among the Hispanic
journalists, who are especially scornful of news organizations that say they
cannot find ...
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HEADLINE: The New, Improved 'Star Wars'
BYLINE: Philip Geyelin
KEYWORD: GEYEL
BODY:
Making the most of a captive audience at the annual meeting of the American
Society of Newspapers Editors, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger asked the
people who decide what's news to help clear up "misconceptions" about President
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (a k a "Star Wars").
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Very well, let's begin with basics. The latest high technology is the name of
the Pentagon game. The strategists, the field commanders, the procurement
officers all play it, all the time, with willing collaborators: scientists whose
zest for research and ...
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HEADLINE: Editors Elect Officers
BYLINE: UPI
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 17
BODY:
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors have elected Robert
P. Clark president for 1985-86. He is vice president for news for Harte- Hanks
Newspapers in San Antonio, Tex. Three other officers were also elected at the
editors' meeting in Washington last week: Michael 6. Gartner, editorial chairman
of The Des Moines Register, vice president; Katherine Fanning, editor of The
Christian Science Monitor, secretary, and Edward R. ...
ORGANIZATION: AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS
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HEADLINE: Reagan in His Defense;
At the Dinner for Algeria's President, Talk of the Trip Controversy
BYLINE: By Donnie Radcliffe and Elizabeth Kastor, Washington Post Staff Writers
KEYWORD: DINER
BODY:
... Selwa Roosevelt, chief of protocol, and Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr.
Cheryl Ladd Russell, actress, and Brian Russell
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Pam Shriver, tennis pro
George Shultz, secretary of state, and Helena Shultz
Richard M. Smith, editor in chief, Newsweek, and Dr. Soon Young Yoon
W. Scott Smith Jr., chairman, National Association of Wholesale Distributors,
and Kathleen Smith
Richard D. Smyser, president, American Society of Newspaper Editors and
editor, The Oak Ridger, and Mary Smyser
Marianna Tcherkassky, ballerina, and Terry Orr, American Ballet Theatre
ballet master
Arlene Violet, attorney general of Rhode Island
Rep. G. William Whitehurst (R-Va.) and Janie Whitehurst
Thomas L. Williams Jr. and Marguerite Williams
Thomas S. Winter, publisher, Human Events, and Dawne Winter
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HEADLINE: ONCE HARD-BITTEN EDITORS PONDER NEW CORPORATE ROLE
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 13
BODY:
In honor of this year's meeting of the nation's newspaper editors here, the
staff at the convention's hotel simulated a newsroom in the lobby with a row of
battered typewriters and ashtrays overflowing with cigarette butts, and
projected a movie version of "The front Page" on a small screen nearby.
The effect was nostalgic, fond and somewhat bittersweet for the American
Society of Newspaper Editors, whose members include editors of most of the
nation's dailies.
Just as typewriters have given way to video display terminals in American
newsrooms, the job of being a newspaper editor has changed so dramatically in
the last decade that the society is no longer sure precisely what a newspaper
editor is or should be.
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What is happening to that role?'' Richard D. Smyser, the society's
president, who is editor of The Oak Ridger in Tennessee, asked in his ...
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HEADLINE: WASHINGTON;
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED?
BYLINE: By James Reston
BODY:
WASHINGTON Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors were in
Washington this week for their periodic look at the Administration and the
cherry blossoms, but the editors didn't look very cheery. And no wonder!
For openers, they arrived just when a couple of judges on the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia tilt The Washington Post with an 88-page
lecture on the proper practice of journalism, and fined it a couple of million
dollars for violating the ...
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HEADLINE: PUBLIC VIEWS NEWSPAPERS WITH MIXTURE OF FAITH AND MISTRUST, POLL FINDS
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 12
BODY:
People in the United States view newspapers with a contradictory mixture of
faith and distrust, according to a study of newspaper credibility made public
today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
For instance, although the study found that newspapers had high credibility
with only 32 percent of the people polled, 84 percent said they had some or
great repect for newspapers and 76 percent said they thought the "press helps
keep public officials honest."
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The study '' had both good news and bad news, '' said Katherine Fanning, editor
of The Christian Science Monitor, treasurer of the society, which includes
editors from most of the nation's ...
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HEADLINE: Americans Question Credibility of Media, Study Says;
Newspapers Should Try to Regain Franchise as a 'People's Advocate,' Editors Told
BYLINE: By James R. Dickenson, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: MEDIA
BODY:
... don't worry about hurting people."
Nearly two-thirds of the respondents agreed that "the press often takes
advantage of victims of circumstance who are ordinary people" -- particularly by
invading the privacy of victims of tragedy or disaster.
The report urged newspapers to "enhance their role as a populist institution'
so that people see it as " 'my paper' instead of 'that paper' " and to regain
their franchise as a "people's advocate."
The poll was commissioned by the American Society of Newspaper Editors
(ASNE), which wound up its annual convention here yesterday. A national sample
of about 1,600 people was polled by telephone last December and January; about
1,000 of them later completed a questionnaire and a second telephone interview.
David Lawrence Jr., publisher of the Detroit Free Press and chairman of the
ASNE credibility committee, told the editors that "some good journalists would
argue that all this talk about credibility does our craft ...
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-HEADLINE: News Speak
BYLINE: By Elizabeth Kastor, Washington Post. Staff Writer
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Newspaper editors found out yesterday that a whole lot of people don't
particularly trust their work. Few of them were surprised.
"I think it verifies a lot of what many of us have expected for a long time,?
said John Johnson, publisher and editor of the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times,.at
the American Society of Newspaper Editors dinner last night.
Earlier in the day, ASNE had released a report that found three-quarters of
American adults have reservations about the credibility of newspapers and
television news. The report said 20 percent of the respondents felt reporters
are arrogant and that 51 percent believed the news media give more coverage to
stories that support their own opinions than those that do not.
"One of the interesting things they found -- they want us to be a little ...
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HEADLINE: WEINBERGER BACKS ANTIMISSILE PLAN
BYLINE: By BILL KELLER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON. April 11
BODY:
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger charged today that the Soviet
Union ''may be preparing'' to violate existing treaties by deploying a
nationwide defense against nuclear missiles.
His remarks, in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
were part of an effort by the Administration to draw attention to Soviet work on
antimissile defenses and to win support for the President's research program for
antimissile weapons. Mr. Weinberger said the program was essential as a hedge
against such Soviet action.
The Defense Secretary said Soviet development of moveable missiles to
intercept enemy missiles and investments in laser research present ''the ominous
possiblity of a deliberate, ...
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HEADLINE: U. S. EDITORS DESCRIBED AS REMISS ON REPORTING THE PLIGHT OF BLACKS
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 11
BODY:
... academic and a journalist, all black, today told the nation's newspaper
editors that they were not reporting vital aspects of the black experience in
the United States, especially what were described as damaging changes in civil
rights policies by the Reagan Administration.
''For the first time in 25 years, there is an Administration hostile to
aspirations of racial equality, '' Julian Bond, a Georgia State Senator, told the
members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, whose members
represent most of the nation's daily papers. They are here for their annual
convention.
''It's a radical, radical, radical, radical shift, and it's a frightening
story,'' Mr. Bond said, adding that the ''public has no ideal' that it had
happened. -
Mr. Bond's denunciation of the press coverage on the issue was vigorously
seconded by Eleanor Holmes Norton, a professor of law at Georgetown University,
and Wallace Terry, ...
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HEADLINE: Weinberger Defends 'Star Wars' Research;
'Prudent Hedge' Against Soviet Buildup
BYLINE: By Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: WEIN
BODY:
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger yesterday called the president's "Star
Wars" research program "necessary as a prudent hedge" against the 'ominous
possibility of a deliberate, rapid, unilateral Soviet deployment of strategic
defenses."
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Speaking to an American Society of Newspaper Editors luncheon, the
defense secretary put new emphasis on the prospect that the Soviet Union might
develop a space-based defense ahead of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative and
"undermine the essential East-West military balance."
Weinberger appeared to return to arguments made by earlier administrations
that ballistic missile defense research money was needed as a hedge against the
Soviets developing a ground-based nationwide ...
GRAPHIC: Picture, Defense Secretary Weinberger tells the American Society of
Newspaper Editors that the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative is a
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HEADLINE: Minority Coverage Faulted;
Complexity Ignored, Panelists Tell Editors
BYLINE: By Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
Twenty years ago, the American press did a commendable job of covering the
civil rights movement, but newspapers now are doing a "poor" job of explaining
today's complex civil rights issues, a group of editors was told yesterday at
the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
"With race issues so much more complex, the public needs education," said
Eleanor Holmes Norton, law professor at Georgetown University. "The print press
has the capacity to look at the complexity of these issues . and carry the
public a long way to erasing these issues by the end of the 20th century."
Norton, along with Julian Bond, a Georgia state senator and host of the
public affairs television show "America's ...
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HEADLINE: CUOMO SEES POLITICAL NEWS AS OVER SIMPLIFIED
BYLINE: By MAURICE CARROLL
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 10
BODY:
News coverage of politics and the Washington political world is overly
dependent upon labels, Governor Cuomo of New York said here today.
''To be honest, it's a little disorienting to come here as Governor and find
that we're back in the land of capsule truths, where perceptions rule over
realities,'' Mr. Cuomo told the convention of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
Mr. Cuomo offered the familiar lament that complex political and governmental
realities were oversimplified into 28 seconds on television, and he blended that
lament with a description of the way the budget battle between Congress and the
White House was being reported.
' 'The showdown between the good guys and the bad guys,'' he said. "The war
of the poses.''
Reporting the 'Scenario'
On the issue of how newspapers were reporting the Federal budget battle, the
Governor said:
'You know the story, or what the ...
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HEADLINE: NITZE DISMISSES SOVIET FREEZE
BYLINE: By BILL KELLER
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 10
BODY:
... missiles in Europe, without freezing missiles aimed at Japan or China
from Asia.
''This is something we could not possibly live with,'' Mr. Nitze said. To
react to Mr. Gorbachev's action by halting American missile deployments, he
said, would be ''an asinine way to negotiate."
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The arms adviser, who was the American negotiator in talks on medium-range
missiles from 1981 until 1983, spoke at a meeting of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors here.
Soviet Freeze Until November
On Sunday the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said the Soviet Union
would impose ''a moratorium on the deployment of its intermediate-range missiles
and suspend the implementation of other reply measures in Europe'' until
November.
After that, he said, Soviet action will depend on whether the United States
agreed to halt its deployments of new Pershing II and ground-launched cruise
missiles ...
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HEADLINE: Cuomo Links 1988 Election To Reagan Policy on Deficit;
Tax Hike Deemed Inescapable for GOP
BYLINE: By James R. Dickenson, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: CUOMO
BODY:
... next time around.
"If the president is wrong and the deficit is a problem, the Democrats will
have a win -- with the AFL-CIO, without the AFL-CIO, with a man, with a woman,
with a black, without a black -- if the Democrats have a good idea that sounds
like it's going to work and a candidate who is a leader, they'll win," he said.
In a speech and question-and-answer session before the American Society of
Newspaper Editors at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Cuomo, a leading possible
candidate for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, offered a deadpan
description of himself as "a governor who aspires to nothing more."
As laughter spread through the audience, Cuomo quipped: 91 see there are no
cynics in this room."
He predicted that Reagan eventually will be unable to escape the need for
raising taxes to reduce the deficit.
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HEADLINE: Editors, Lawyers Say Libel Award Against Post May Alter Journalism
BYLINE: By Eleanor Randolph, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: POST
BODY:
... impact could be enormous. What this two-judge decision has done is
undercut the effect of the Bose decision which stated in the strongest possible
terms the painstaking task that judges have.
This says the job isn't that painstaking, isn't that searching, that they
don't have to assess the credibility of the evidence," Sanford added.
Sanford said that he and other lawyers believe that reading "stands the Bose
decision on its head."
For reporters and editors, many of whom are meeting in Washington this week
for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the most troubling part of
the decision was the appeals court panel's opinion that The Post is a newspaper
"which seeks, among other things, hard-hitting investigative stories" which
should be considered by juries in libel cases.
In the opinion, Mackinnon wrote that "Robert Woodward, [The Post's] assistant
managing editor at all times relevant to this case, testified that he regularly
conducted staff meetings at which he "describe[d] the kind of stories [he] was
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HEADLINE: President Clarifies Position on Summit
BYLINE: By David Hoffman, Washington Post Staff Writer; Staff writer Walter
Pircus contributed to this report.
DATELINE: SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 10, 1985
KEYWORD: PRES
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BODY:
... going to talk about these other things at Geneva , let's have a meeting
just to get acquainted.' That builds up people's hopes, and some previous
presidents have done that and found that the letdown was very terrible."
Meanwhile today, Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, special adviser on arms control,
was critical of Gorbachev's announced moratorium on further deployments of
intermediate-range missiles.
Appearing on a panel at the American Society of Newspaper Editors
convention, Nitze said the Soviet leader's proposal "walks back" from his
country's final negotiating position taken in Geneva in 1983. At that time,
Nitze said, Moscow was willing to have only 120 SS20 missiles in Europe while
freezing the number of those missiles in the Far East, which then stood at 110.
Under Sunday's plan, he said, the Soviets would have 414 SS20s overall and
$no constraints" on the ...
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HEADLINE: Arts Smarts at ASNE;
Panel Gives Cultural Coverage Bad Marks
BYLINE: By Lloyd Grove, Washington Post Staff Writer
BODY:
How do newspapers cover the arts? Very badly indeed was the consensus of a
panel discussion yesterday at the American Society of Newspaper Editors
convention.
In a program billed as The Critics vs. the Criticized" at the Sheraton
Washington Hotel, cultural writers Judith Martin and Hilton Kramer blamed
uninformed editors. Humorist Calvin Trillin got in a few plugs for his next
book. And soprano Beverly Sills, general director of the New York City Opera,
chewed up the scenery with a recitative against incompetent critics.
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HEADLINE: EDITORS VOICE DISMAY AT LIBEL RULING
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, April 9
BODY:
Newspaper editors expressed dismay today that a Federal appeals court had
reinstated a libel verdict against The Washington Post in an action brought by a
now retired president of the Mobil Oil Corporation.
The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia was particularly troubling to many of the nation's editors, gathered
here for the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
because in recent years they have come to view the nation's appeals courts as
bastions defending news organizations from the large libel judgments that have
become almost commonplace in lower courts.
''It's become an epidemic,'' said Gene Roberts, executive editor of The
Philadelphia Inquirer, adding that about 21 libel suits brought by public
officials against Philadelphia news organizations are currently before the
courts.
... stories" or "sophisticated muckraking'' as a relevant factor in
considering whether a newspaper's employees had acted in reckless disregard of
the truth.
''It's a sad day,'' said Edward R. Cony, vice president of Dow Jones &
Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
''I'm shocked by that language,'' said Richard D. Smyser, editor of The Oak
Ridger in Oak Ridge, Tenn., who is president of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, which includes editors of most of the nation's dailies.
''It astounds me that this would be the basis of a ruling.''
In a statement issued by Mobil, the plaintiff, William P. Tavoulareas, said
he had ''felt from the beginning that the Post either knew the story was false
or published it with reckless disregard for whether it was true or false." Mr.
Tavoulareas added that he thought the appeals court decision would ''make for a
more responsible press.''
Though ...
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HEADLINE: Cuomo's Record at Midterm Nicks Presidential-Timber Image
BYLINE: By Margot Hornblower, Washington Post Staff Writer
DATELINE: NEW YORK, April 9, 1985
KEYWORD: CUOMO
BODY:
... way that [Colorado Sen. Gary] Hart, [New Jersey Sen. Bill] Bradley and
others couldn't begin to think about. The president doesn't necessarily have to
be a great administrator.'
While saying he is not thinking presidential politics, Cuomo has cultivated
his national image, from his speech at the University of Notre Dame on religion
and politics to his recent trip to Washington for the National Governors`
Conference. He is to speak Wednesday at an American Society of Newspaper
Editors lunch at the Washington Sheraton.
Democratic presidential nominee Walter F. Mondale's supporters were horrified
when Cuomo, a month before the November election, gave an extensive interview to
The New York Times on whether and how he might run for president in 1988.
Cuomo said his image among Albany legislators may suffer from the
'familiarity-breeds-contempt' phenomenon. "I will never be the greatest governor
the ...
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CORRECTION:
An article last week inadvertently put the value of the 1984 commercial catch
of striped bass in New York at $1.2 billion instead of $1.2 million.
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HEADLINE: Princes of Print;
Laughs & Lore at the Editors Convention
BYLINE: By Elizabeth Kastor, Washington Past Staff Writer
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People come in two varieties. There are the ones who go to every symposium,
meeting, conference and round-table discussion at a convention. And there are
the ones who don't.
"I simply skip most of the program," said John Block, editor of the Toledo
Blade's Sunday magazine, at last night's welcoming reception for the American
Society of Newspaper Editors' annual convention. 'I know the organizers
don't like that, but most of the meetings are like being in a prison or a boring
drunk-driving rehabilitation session."
Block was, he said, 'in a waggish mood." (Conventions do that to some
people.) Waggishly, he proceeded to suggest that ASNE members once again be
Invited to a special White House reception as they used to be If they would
change their name to something a little more ...
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April 9, 1985, Tuesday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; Personalities; C3
LENGTH: 284 words
HEADLINE: End Notes
BYLINE: By Chuck Conconi, Washington Post Staff Writer
KEYWORD: PERSON
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... write 'Wired," his book about Belushi . . .
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was sued yesterday for libel and invasion of
privacy by Louise Beatrice Hoogstraten, the younger sister of slain Playboy
centerfold Dorothy Stratten. The $5 million lawsuit contends that Hefner
emotionally damaged Hoogstraten, 16, with his claim earlier this month that she
was "seduced' by director Peter Bogdanovich when she was 13 . . .
Newspaper editors, gathering from across the nation for the American
Society of Newspaper Editors conference here today through Friday, checked
in at the Sheraton Washington Hotel registration desk to what looked like a
newspaper office from another era. There were 1940s telephones and typewriters
at the front desk and members of the registration staff were wearing green
visors. The concierge's desk was transformed into a newsstand complete with
out-of-town newspapers and a newsboy hawking papers. During the working
conferences the editors will hear ...
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a 1985 The New York Times, March 24, 1985
March 24, 1985, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section 3; Page 1, Column 2; Financial Desk
LENGTH: 3498 words
HEADLINE: AND NOW, THE MEDIA MEGA-MERGER
BYLINE: By ALEX S. JONES
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... dedicated to overseeing the content of CBS news reports. Only last week
it was announced that Ted Turner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.,
had met with Mr. Helms's group to seek ways to cooperate on a formal bid for
CBS.
''I find it reason for concern and wariness,'' said Richard D. Smyser, editor
of the Oak Ridger, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and president of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors. ''We are a business and would be nothing else, but given
our constitutional role and guarantee, we are a special business. The emphasis
now seems overweighted on the media as a commodity. ''
Though antitrust laws could be used at some point to prevent mergers, Mr.
Morton argues that much more consolidation would be required in the
communications industry before it became as concentrated as steel or
automobiles.
Analysts also argue that, while the number of newspapers and ...
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March 4, 1985, Monday, Final Edition
SECTION: Style; 86
LENGTH: 640 words
HEADLINE: Journalism Awards
BYLINE: From News Services
KEYWORD: AWARDS
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Both the George Polk Awards, given by Long Island University, and the
American Society of Newspaper Editors announced the winners Saturday of
their awards for journalism.
ASNE named four winners of its 1985 Distinguished Writing Awards. They are
Richard Aregood of the Philadelphia Daily News, for editorial writing; Jonathan
Bor of the Syracuse Post-Standard, for deadline writing; Murray Kempton of
Newsday, Long Island, N.Y., for commentary, and Greta Tilley of the Greensboro
(N.C.) News and Record, for nondeadiine writing.
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