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Societyof Professional ournalistsfi'{ew ork Cityea Chapter,l nerI' December.1995Folawardnomineesought ClubelectionseUAnthonyheads lateominations reopen or theDeadlineClub's annualFirst AmendmentAward,which will be presented t the Club'sannualFreedomof Information programin March.The award,now in its l5th year, sgiven to that individual or organizationthat showsstrongand continuingeffortsto preserve nd sEengthenreedomof thepressand the First Amendment n theNewYork menopolitan readuring1995.The deadlineor nominationss Feb.I, 1996.

Nomineesmay ncludeprint or broad-cast ournalists,egislators, rofessionalor ganizations, awyers, udges, lawenforcementfficials,governmenteadersand or businessesndcorporations.heireffortson behalfof freedomof informa-tion musthave had directbenefit o oreffect n ttreNew York City metropolitan

area,ncludingWesrchesterounty.Nominationetters,ncluding henom-inee'sname,address nd elephone um-ber as well as a concise,specific state-mentas o why theperson r organizationis beingnominated, houldbe sent o theClub in careof Kay Lockridge 7 East14rhSr.- Apt,1620,I.{YC 0003-3122).The nominator hould ncludehis/hername, ddressnd elephoneumber.The recipientwill be determined ytheDeadlineClub'sboardof directors.hevious recipientsncludeRobertU.Brown, RobertJ. Freeman,Bob Greene,David Zinman,Norman Schorr,JerryNachman, udgeSol Wachtler,LeonardSussman, urtonBenjamin,Nat Hentoff,Judge Lawrence H. Cooke, FloydAbrams, The American Society ofJournalists AuthorsandAssemblymanStevenSanders.Hall ofFame nductees resentedBy ANGELATEDESCO

It was badnews or journalismbreak-ing at a good time. Fearing a lawsuit,CBS management ad ordered 60Minutes" o kill an interview with a for-mer obacco ompany xecutive. he dis-putewasmadepublic on Nov. 9, a daywhen "60 Minutes" co-editorMikeWallacewas free to speakout about theproblemwith colleagues athered o

honorhim and six other nducteesntotheClub'sHall of Fame.ReginaldStuart,mmediate astpresi-dent of The Societyof ProfessionalJournalists,old the capacitycrowd atSardi's, this sortof squabbles happen-ing everywhere." y becomingmembersof SPJ,Stuartsaid, hey couldcontributeto the organization's fforts on behalfof

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The following slate of officers andExecutive Council members or 1996hasbeen proposed for Deadline Club mem-bershipconsideration:President -Robert Anthony, PCMagazine and Stadium Circle Features.Vice Presiderxts-James Barron, TheNew York Times: Janel l Teubner-Crispyn, WHLI Radio; Vicky PennerKatz, SI-INY Stony Brook.Se re tary-David Woods, MarketingCommunications.AJJistan Secretaries-Ira Fine, New York Power Authority;Clare Regan, Staten sland Advance.Treasurer-Mart in Gi t ten, ConEdison. Assistant Treasurers-GeralynLucas, ABC-TV; Trudy Lieberman,Consumer Reports and ColumbiaJournalism Review.Executive Council-Chaired by imme-diatepastpresidentBill Bell, Daily News.Members include Sam Boyle, TheAssociatedPress:Rob Calem, Free-lanceWri ter ; John Mack Carter , HearstMagazines;Jordan Goodman, MoneyMagazine; Rich Lamb, WCBSNewsradio 88; Kay Lockridge, Free-lance Edi torAVri ter ; Craig Prediger,NBC-TV; Angela Tedesco,NYC SchoolCor 'st ruct ion Author i ty; RichardWagner, Internat ional TrademarkAssociation;and Allan Wolper, Editor &Publisher.The Advisory Committeewill consistof past presidentsBetsy Ashton, Author;

Steve Dunlop, The Story Painters; andTerry Raskyn, GlobeCommunications.The elect ion wi l l be held at theHoliday Party Dec. 20, with ttrenew offi-cers assuming heir posts Jan. l, 1996.The Nominations Committee, headedbyimmediate past presidentBetsy Ashton,included past presidentsSteve Dunlopand Kay Lockridge.

?cI,nEg+\Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters dlbcuss the finer points of investigative report-ing at the Hall of Fame iuncheon last month.INSIDE:Spotlight nradionews,Hall of Fame,SPJ onvention,nline


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Page2PRESIDENT'SORNER

Flexibilityprovideskey to futureBy ANGELA TEDESCO

Somenside nformationabout he obmarketn radio:One--{on't makeany betsaboutoin-ing an all-newsstation.Thereare ust 21in the United States oday,comparedo40 a decade go.Two--don't marketyourselfsolely asa producer, eporter,writer or on-air tal-ent; nstead, ell your ability to fill all ofthese lots.Three--don't counton affiliatingwithjust onestation; oday,apro offersdiffer-SAVETHESEDATES

Wednesday, ec.20 - HolidayParty,Player'sClub(16GramercyParkSouttr) p.m.***Monday,Jan.22,1996 Gettogether tJeremy'sAle House 254FrontSt., SouthSneetSeaport),6 p.m. ***Friday,April 12-Sunday, pril 14,'96-SPJ RegionOneConference,New Brunswick,N.J.(HyattRegencyHotel).Co-sponsoredy InvestigativeReoorters Editors.

ent qerviceso different stationsn thesamemarket.This was the messagerom threekeyplayers n the industry who spoke withthe Club in October:FredBennett,vicepresident f operationsndprogramming,ShadowBroadcast ervices, ew Jersey;Rich Larkin, assistant xecutivedirectorand housecounsel o the AmericanFederation f Televisionand RadioAfiists, New York; andBill Yeager, icepresident f news,sportsandweatherorMetroNetworks,Philadelphia.They agreed hat, although adiounemployment as hit bottom,stationsare swimming n a different direction,relying less on staf fersand more on"Metros"and Shadows" o provide hemwith news, raffic, weather, portsandotherspecializedegments.The panelists aid isteners eemunawarehatprogramming n their ocallocal stationss emanatingrom only onesource.For one thing, the stationsdon'ttell them.The lead-in s: now, thenewsfrom 'JackJones,"'not "And now, thenews rom Shadow in ninecities, nclud-ing the Big Apple) or Metro ( in 40cities)."And, becausehe typical islener

DEADLINER/December, 1995

DeadlineClub memberJeanetteJohnson,editor of Family PlanningPerspectives, ccepts he Gl obalMedia Award for best populationjournal from Werner Fornos,presi'dent of the Population Institute,sponsor of the award. The avwaspresentedSept.15at the GreatHall of the People n Be[iing, Chinaduring the International Women'sConference.Deadlins DoingsFormer DeadlineClub presidentBillSchmitt hasbeennamednews editor ofAmerican Metal Market andmovedbackto New York from Washington, hereheworked or the MetalsPublishingGroupof Chil ton Publications,a CapitalCities/ABCcompany.

Another former Club president,Chr is t i Har lan, has been namedWashington orrespondentor theAustin(Texas)American-Statesmanfter com-pletinga Knight Fellowship n Law forJournalists t Yale. Previously, hewasareporter or the Wall StreetJournal nNew York, Dallas and Washingtonandmanagingeditor of the ManhattanIawyer.Marlene Sanderswill anchor woprograms n a new cablechannel,PrimeLife Network, beginningnext spring.Sanderswill continue o leachat theColumbiaUniversityGraduate choolofJournalism,whereshe s directorof pro-gramdevelopment.

DeadJ,j,nerEditor KayLmkridgeReporters JeanetteJohnsonDavid KatzAngelaTedecoNon-commercial,eader-supportedublicationof theDeadlineClub.PresidentBill 8ell.A non-profit rgani-zation, he Club is the New York City chapterof TheSociety f Professionallournalists the oldest, argestorganization erving he field of ournalism. ocalduesare $20 annually.Viewsexpressed ereinarenot nec-essarily hoseof the Deadliner r the DeadlineClub.Editor ia l materia l should be submitted to KayLockridge, East14th St.,Apt. 1620, New Yor k,NY10003-3122.

'ltwasaverygoodyear...'BY BILL BELL

This one wraps it up, and for learningexperiences, can testify that nothing butnothing beats a year at the top of the let-terhead.What I learnedprobably is what everypresident over the years has learned-that the names below his or hers are theones hat really count.Clearly, the Deadline Club, like everyotlrer chapter, s only asstrong as ls com-mittees,and I mean all of them,across lteboard from liaison with campus chaptersto membershipandprograms.Another thing that presidents learn isthat their real usefulnesscomes after theyleave office. That's when their experi-ence pays off. So, I'm going to do whatmy predecessors avedone, which is stayon boardand stay activeln my case, 'm looking most forwardto chafuing the Program Committee. I feelgoodabout this, and I'm going to recruit acouple of colleagues to put together someexciting,relevanl. nd nterestingprogams.All in all, it was a good year.The Hallof Fame nduction was special.A riumph

organized y BetsyAshton.The annualAwardsDinner was a record-setter,hanksto co-chairsra Fi ne andSteveBlinn.David Woods cameup with the BrownBag unch dea,and t now is a model orothers.We've got the Lunch with alrgend off and unning.And so on.Two members eserve xtra hanks.Marty Gitten s owed big time for hisyearsof keepinga sharpeyeand sharppencilon the inancial ecords, nd everyissueof the Deadliners a reminder hatKay Lockridge, editor/reporter/etc.,sindispensible.Out-of-.town ssignments,angingfrom OklahomaCity to YitzhakRabin'sassassination,obbedme of a chance oshare coupleof big events.But,anotherlessonhere, hingswork fine without apresident'sersonal lessing.Anyway, he incoming eam or '96looks ike a winner,and Bob Anthonycancounton a lot of help.All he has odo is look to thenames elow his on theletterhead.hat'swhat did.Thanks, verybody, nd et's make t agreatnewyear.

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DEADLINERlDecember,995 PageClubadds eveno Hallof Fame:

Above:lmmediate past presidenb BetsyAshton and Reggie Stuart,Deadline Club and SPJ respec-tively, enjoy a moment togetherbefore the Hall of Fame lun-cheon, which Ashton chaired.Near Left:Michael Kay accepts forMel Allen.Far Left;Barbara Walters listens attentive.Iy as John Mack Carter makes apoint, while Art Athens surueysthe crowded dining room.Phobsby Bo ZaundersLay out design by Phil Desiere

HallofFame elebratesfth anniversary(Cont. rom p. I, col.2)professionals nd collegestudentsntownsandcitiesacrosshe country.BetsyAshton, mmediate astpresi-dentandchairpersonf t}teevent,ed thetributes o the honorees:Mel Allen, ArtAthens,John Mack Carter , MurrayKempton, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger,BarbaraWaltersandWallace.

Allen, recuperatingrom sugery, sentword from the University of AlabamaMedical Center hat he expected o beback in New York soon and that hewould treasure he award.Accepting forhim wasMichaelKay WABC Radio'scurrentannounceror the Yankees,whosaid "Mel Al len wil l a lwaysbe the'Voiceof theYankees.'Art Athens,recentlyretired chief cor-respondent nd newsdirectorat WCBSNewsradio 8,recalled hathis nterestnjournalismwas obviouswhen he was a

child-at baseballgames, oung Artwatched he pressbox, not the field."Reportinggivesus the opportunity otoucha lot of livesandmaybesavesomelives, hesaid.JohnMack Carter,presidentof HearstMagazineEnterprises nd a pastpresidentof the Club, saidhe wasproud to be thefirstHearstoumalistnamedo theHall ofFame.His wife, childrenandgrandchil-drenwerepresentwittt his "Hearst fami-ly" to applaud is achievement.Columnist Murray Kempton andretiredNew York TimespublisherArthurOchsSulzberger entbestwishesan dgrati tude through representatives.Accepting or Kemptonwas Les Payne,Newsday'sassistantmanaging ditor fornationaland foreignnews.He praisedKempton as "a gteat street eporter" andlikenedhim to "Secretariat itched-upo aplow." He reminded he audienceofKempton's redo: It's next o impossible

to judgea public figure objectivelyonceyoubegin o call him by his hnt rulme."WarrenHoge,assistantmanaging ditorof The New York Times, saidTheTimescontinued o uphold"Punch"Sulzberger'sstandards nd pledgednot to substituteenterfainmentalues or newsvalues.Wallace cautioned hat corporationsare using the deviceof attorney/clientprivilegemoreandmore requentlyo tryto keep mportant ncriminating docu-mentsrompublicscrutiny.The final recipient was BarbaraWalters,ABC News correspondent ndco-anchor f'20/20," who said she elt"blessed"with the opportunity o be awihess to history.The honoreeseceivedbronzemedal-lions designed y Tiffany & Co. anddonatedby its chairman,William R.Chaney.The luncheon rogramwasdesignedby Clare Regan,Staten slandAdvance.


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995 -Page4Redi/o,ryews, rintrepresented

Above:Mike Wallace provokesIaughter from BefsyAshton while acceptinginduction into theHall of Fame.Left:Warren Hoge acceptson behalf of ArthurOchs Sulzberger.

Right:LesPayne calledMurray Kempton "one hell of a writer'as he accepted ondre Pulitzer Prizewinner's behalf.


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Page 5 EADLINER/December, 1995Deadlinerseport nSPJ onventionWriterwinsSDXaward Delegatesebateethicso standstillST. PAUL, MINN.-Brooklyn-basedwriter EdwardBall, who until recentlywasbest*nown for his columnon archi-tecttue, ookreviewsand articleson cul-ture for The Village Voice and assortedglossymagazines,eceiveda covetedSigmaDelta Chi award n Octoberat theSPJnational onventionor the irst storyhe everdid for radio: a 35-minutedocu-mentaryentitled"The OtherHistory,"which aired on NationalPublic RadioMarch26,1994.The documentaryrewoutof a familyreunionBall attendedn Charleston, .C., n June,1993.The writergrewup inCharlestons oneof many descendantsof a rice planterwho settled n SouthCarolinan 1698.The planter,Elias Ball, owned100slaves. amiliarwith the history of hisprosperous ncestorand the family sto-ries retold at well-att endedeunions,EdwardBall setout to recover he miss-ing historyof theAfrican-Americans hohadserved n the amily plantation.The radio documentary as tlte resultof monthsof trackingdown and nter-viewing the descendantsf thoseslaves.Ball recordedheir amily stories.NPR received an avalancheofresponsesnd sold hundreds f audiotapesof the program,which later wasplayedon the BBC. Ball said he is

expandinghe storyfor a book to be pub-lishedby Farrar,Sftaus,Giroux.-Betsy Ashton

BYBILL BELLST. PAUL, MINN.-Garrison Keillorauctionedoff his red sox, to benefit heLegal DefenseFund, and GeneRobertsauctioned ff a one-on-oneunch withhim in The Times' executive iningroom.And, therewas a swell first nightpartyat the Gatlin Brothersnightclub,ntheMall of America.But, thosewere tJtesideshows t the76thannual onvention f The SocietyofProfessional ournalistsn October.Thereal stuff went on hour after hour n thesuitesand hallways of the Raddison,nworkshops, eminars nd addressesypros,polsandpressolk galore.Oveniding every other ssueon thebusinessront was heethicscode.It alsowas the most emotionalandcontroversialssueon an agenda hatincluded16 other tems, all of themapproved y acclamation.Ah, but thatproposedewethics ode.This s an ssue o sensitivehatsomedelegates ublicly objected o the freefountainpen, from Philip Morris, thatwas ncludedn theirpress itsBy the time the issuecamebeforedelegates,ftermanyhoursof committeeconsideration,heproposed ew codehad26 amendments. ne amendmentwas acompleteewriteof thecurrent ode.The argumentswere ong and oud.Delegates pent15 minuteson the cor-rectness f the word "might" in oneclause.It remainedmight.")The impetus or a new code s thefeeling hat the existingone s not up-to-dateenough or the new complexcom-munications rder,andthat t excludesrange of journalismthat reaches romfree-lancerso onlineservices.An extremelysensit ive ssuewasenforcement. awyers anddoctorsareobligedby their ethicscodes o reportunethicaland illegal practicesandprac-tioners.Not so ournalists.Journalistswho wantedan enforce-ment clause ost. First, The SPJboardvotednot to consider nforcementat thistime." Then,enforcementorces ost n avoton the loor.In the end,nothinghappened. nableto resolve he many differences n lan-guageand tone,delegates otedto tablethe ssue or oneyear, o give everybodya chanceo cooloff and egroup.Nobody voted to mail thosepensbackto PhilipMorris.

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Robefts: apers eedo getseriousBYBETSYASHTON

ST.PAUL, MINN.--GeneRoberts,man-agingedilorof The New York Times,wasnamedhonoraryeducation hairmanat the1995nationalconvention f The Societyof hofessionalJournalists fterdeliveringa keynoteaddress ismissing he notionthatcomputers ill kill newspapers."A more ikely prognosis s suicide,"Roberts aid."We threaten ur existence ith mind-less ushes owardthe latest ournalistictrendand fad," he added. We imperilourfutureby notpayingenough ttentionto our past,where here s ampleevi-denceof how shallow,mindlessormulacan oosen urhold onreaders."We strangleour newsroomswithmeager udgetshatdrainaway hevital-itv we need o attact and hold readers.We undermineour ability to respond othe nfinite unpredictability f news'"We are in dangerof self-strangula-

tion," Roberts ontinued. Year afteryear, newspapers re concentratedntofewerand ewerorganizations...lessndlessconcemed bout he low of informa-tion to the public and more and moreoccupiedwith the flow of profits to thecenfialcorporation."He saidhe considered imself fortu-nate to be associatedwith a newspaperthat is going the otherway. The Times,Roberts aid,will have aterdeadlines,newsroomenovation ndmore eportersworkingnights.Roberts redictedhat hosenewspapersthatultimatelywill survivewill be those,like TheTimes, hatrely lesson briefnewsitems,charts, olor,graphicsandcorporatestyleandmore on giving readersheclari-ty, depthandperspectivehey need ounderstandhemajor eventsof their time,thecenral issues f their communities ndthe overwhelminglood of daa from com-putersandother nstantmedia


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Page6 DEADT.NER/December,995InternetdrawsTimeanto yberspaceBy STEVEDI.JNLOP

"There'sno book on how to do thisstuff,"JaniceCastro ays. We're helpingto write that bookhere.""Here" is conferenceoom 24728 inthe Time Life Building, a standard pacewith frostedglass, ecessedighting andfwo dozenupholstered wivel chairs clus-teredarounda long butcherblock table. tis where he editor of Timemeetweekly o

do battle over tle contentsof ttreweeklymagazine-and whereJaniceCasFoandasmall groupof cyber-newspeoplereembarkingon oneof the mostsignificantexperimentsn journalismsinceEdwardR. Murrow's See tNow" onCBS.CasEos senioreditor of Time OnlineServices nd editorof "Time Daily," anadvertiser-supportedaily online maga-zine- an ambitiouseffort by a raditionalpublisher o tap a growing,but as yet

unmeasureable,udiencen cyberspace.Castro, Timeveteran,metwith DeadlineClub members n Octoberaspart of theClub'sBrown BagLunchseries.Print media havebeenaroundpracti-cally since Gutenberg,and eachyearacrop of freshyoungfaces ries to breakinto the established ay of doing things.But, at "Time Daily," it's the old dogswho have o leamthenewtricks: they areshapingan embryonicmedium whoserulesaren'tyet carvedn stone.TimeOnLine tracests beginnings nly to May oflastyear."It wasa big cultural changeor us,"Casnosays f "TimeDaily," which s dis-tributed ia the ntemet.But,surprisingly,the biggestadjustrnentappears o havebeennot so much o new technology utin getting weekly journalists to thinkround-the lock,all-newsadio erms.Castro ook Club membersdown thehall to a20-by-20workroomwith a half-dozenApplecomputers,he nervecenterof Time'sonline operation.Shecalls hiskind of publ ishinga "powerful newmedium" n its own right. "It's not thesameasprint or TV or radio, but is haselements f all threemedia."CasEos optimistic about he futureofthenew medium,noting hatusers f onlineservices remore nformation-oriented.more ocused ndmoredemandinghan hetraditionalmagazine udience. he specialnatureof onlinepublishing"profoundly

changes our relationshipwith your read-ers," CasEomaintains.t also bodeswellfor the futue of the written word in anincreasingly ost-literateociety.(Editor's note: "TimeDaily" can beacces edat http potlfinder. coml imel

Radionewsretrenches(Cont. from p.2, col.2)stays tuned to one station, s/heis nonethe wiser that "Jack Jones" is heard as"Joe Smith" at anotherpoint on the diat."Stations have different demograph-ics, and there's nothing wrong with that,"Yeagermaintained. Bennettpointed outthat news prepared by professionals ispreferableto disk jockeys doing 'rip andread' and not doing a very goodjob ofit."We customize our segments o fit theformat of each station, andwe sound ikepart of the show," he added.Yeager and Bennett said their servicesenable stations to upgrade the quality oftheir programming and to introduce orincrease he number of their news seg-ments. Larkin commented that, althoughMetro and Shadow pay lower salaries [otheir staff members than individual sta-tions did in the past, the salaries he ser-vices offer are fair."The bottom line in the new joumal-ism is to do more with fewer people,"Larkin said, "and it's a lough workload."To the question, "Where is the FCC andwhat happened to the obligation to pro-

vide public serviceprogramming?"Larkin replied, In thatrespect,he FCCis dead.Today, he FCC grants icensesto makemoneyand looksat EEO tc besure hat the workforcematcheshe eth-nicity of the listening area.There's essdiversityof opinionand esscommunityreporting.There'sno requirement,ndnoone scomplaining."Will televisionnewsgo the way ofradio news?This is a possibility hatnoonedenied.But, evenas televisionandradio news changes,herewill be newaudiences nd new obs. For example,Yeagersaid, elephone ompanies ro-duce"programs"allowing subscribersodial up the latestnews rom a cellularphone.Computernetworksoffer onlinenewsservices, ndan estimated 0,000people earned he verdict n the O. J.Simpsonrail via the nternet, eadded.The conclusion rom Larkin was:"Changen the ong run is for the best."Bennettsummedup: "Peoplewho adaptwill survive."Theprogramwasorganized ndmod-erated y JanellTeubner-Crispyn,ewsdirectorof WHLI Radio,Long sland.

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