Looking back does not come easily to journalists, immersed as they are in breaking events. But there is good reason for those who practise and study journalism to consider the critical episodes in its evolution and in this collection, such authors describe in detail episodes of this kind.

I: The 1940s; 1: The Murrow Boys-Broadcasting for the Mind's Eye; II: The 1950s; 2: The Lessons of Little Rock; III: The 1960s; 3: The Black Vanguard Integrates Newsrooms; 4: Covering Ali, Discovering an Era; 5: Vietnam and War Reporting; IV: The 1970s; 6: Ruben Salazar-Misunderstood Martyr; 7: Past and Present at Wounded Knee; 8: The Weight of Watergate; 9: Newspapers for Working People; V: The 1980s; 10: We've Come a Long Way-Maybe; 11: Newsman Meets Batman; 12: Women Sportswriters-Business as Usual; VI: The 1990s; 13: Live, from the Persian Gulf War; 14: A Strategy of Rape in Bosnia; 15: Polling and "What If?" Journalism; 16: Expanding the Language of Photographs; 17: The Connie Chung Phenomenon; 18: Covering Politics-Is There a Female Difference?; 19: Does the Internet Change News Reporting? Not Quite; VII: Portfolio; 20: Photojournalists-Visionaries Who Have Changed Our Vision; 21: Editorial Cartoonists-An Endangered Species?; VIII: Review Essay; 22: That's the Way It Was