Argentina's historic Herald.
A MILESTONE IN journalism history was observed in Argentina last fall when the country's noted English-language newspaper, the Buenos Aires Herald, celebrated its 130th anniversary. The daily newspaper is not only a keen observer of the remnants of British culture that were prevalent in the 1870s, when the country...

25 years ago in Discover: the first issue.
Even 25 years later, the inaugural issue of Discover is fun to read. Implantable heart defibrillators and in-dash computer systems aren't exactly cutting-edge technologies anymore, but it's thought provoking to peruse stories about them and consider how far technology has come. Other articles in the October 1980 issue don't...

'Weak' ties matter to our patients.
Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and the Southeast Asian tsunami are disasters that are likely to have immense consequences--for all of us--if we do not have a plan for the recovery efforts. We cannot plan properly if we fail to understand environmental displacement in its ecological and sociological...

Wild ride.
After engaging in a weekend-long crime spree, a 17-year-old Reno, Nevada, resident got himself shot. The culmination of the unidentified youth's spree happened about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 24, when the young man attempted to steal a newspaper delivery vehicle from Jonathon Hafalla. When Hafalla left...

Thunderbolts from the sewer: the notorious Tvind organization may not be a typical bingo. But, as Pranav Budhathoki reports, its wealth, bizarre history and grim persistence reveal how far--and how easily--things can go badly astray.
Windswept Winestead Hall, eight miles east of Hull in northern England. My 60 days' engagement with the College for International Co-operation and Development (CICD) started with an unfussy payment of $2,800 into the private bank account of the Principal, Karen Barsoe. I got a warm welcome into 'the family'....

It's been great being part of a great product: the ability to allow the most critical of views to be published in the magazine taught me that in promoting discourse, all views need to be heard. Sustaining a publication (controversial as it is sometimes viewed) for 40 years, says a lot about the people who have given themselves to manage it.
Perhaps my interest in journalism began when I started school while staying with an aunt who never missed the radio news, and we would compete to guess who the newscaster was. I only knew one--Kenneth Maduma--because of his unmistakable, deep voice. To date, comedians still toy around with his...

From the editor.
During a recent visit to New York City I was confronted by several musicians who are extremely bitter and frustrated with the ongoing state of "payola" practices by many of the commercial radio stations in the city that cater to Latino music. By no means a new problem, payola...

The Tupelo miracle: how faith and a newspaper transformed a Mississippi community.
Increasingly, Americans are becoming aware that a few large corporations control what most of us see, hear, and read. For example, 22 companies own 39 percent of the 1,457 daily newspapers in America, accounting for 69 percent of daily newspaper circulation, according to 2002 figures from the Editor &...

The Wal-Mart effect.
Wal-Mart is becoming a gateway for American media content. Business Week magazine (Nov. 15) reported on All You, a new women's magazine from Time Inc. that will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores. "Since it started selling magazines in the mid-1990s, Wal-Mart has amassed a 15 percent...

Adventures in Sarasota: Welcome to our biggest-ever visitor's annual. (From the Editor).
Pam Daniel In the immortal words of Ed Sullivan, we're proud to bring you a "really big shew"--er, issue--this month. At 319 pages, it's our largest Visitor's Annual ever; and if you ask me--okay, I admit I'm slightly prejudiced--it just may be our all-time best. Published at...