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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

Cover: A Dozen (or more) TV Stories T [3]o Sell Your News Manager For Sweeps
By  VINCE PATTON [3]
 

Inside Story: Old-Fashioned Reporting Turns Good Stories to Gold
 by Mike Dunne

Climate Skeptics in Europe?  Mostly Missing in Action [4]
 By PAUL D. THACKER

Columns

President's Report: No Matter The Name, The Only Agenda Is Pure Journalism [5]
By PERRY BEEMAN

Science Survey: Bird Flu: The Coming Pandemic Or Much Less? [6]
 by CHRISTINE HEINRICHS

The Beat: Leaking Gas Tanks and Chemical Pollution Are Common Focus
 By MIKE DUNNE [7]

Reporter's Toolbox: The Case Against Fluoride Mounts [8]
 By BETTE HILEMAN

SEJ News

Platte River At The Crossroads [9]
 By WENDY HESSLER

Hopeful Signs For SEJ's FOI Efforts [10]
 By JOSEPH A. DAVIS

Media on the Move [11]
 By JACKLEEN DE LA HARPE

Pre-Conference Workshops For New And Seasoned Journalists [12]

UVM to Host Vermont-Flavored Hearty Party [13]
 By CHERYL DORSCHNER

Research Roundup: Media Hype's Impacts on Disaster Victims and Endangered Species [14]
 By JAN KNIGHT

Book Shelf

"Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People and the Environment" [15]
By Jacques Leslie
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $15.75
Reviewed By NANCY BAZILCHUK

"The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather and the Destruction of  Civilization" [16]
By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26.00
Reviewed By JIM MOTAVALLI

"The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" [17]
By Candice Millard
Doubleday, $26.00
Reviewed By MARK NEUZIL