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Summer 1998

Photojournalism: Introduction By Robert H. Phelps, Editor; Changing With the Times By Vincent Alabiso; AP’s Policy Banning Photo Manipulation; Hard Times Abroad By Otto Pohl; The Best Picture I Never Took By David Turnley; Trials With Editors; Get the Picture By John G. Morris; The Web Waits for the Photographer, Too By Fred Ritchin; The Best Picture I Never Took By Stan Grossfeld; Roy DeCarava Retrospective By Lester Sloan; The Best Picture I Never Took By Steve Northup; Feminine Touch By Mary Lou Foy; The Best Picture I Never Took By Stanley Forman; The Role of the Picture Editor By John Loengard; The Best Picture I Never Took By Frank Van Riper; Inner Eye By Bill Kuykendall; Honest Emotion By Torsten Kjellstrand; Interaction By Mary Beth Meehan; People Without People By Alan Berner; Pictures Dominate, Words Come Second By Sherry Jones; ‘Secret’ Behind TV Station’s Photos By Manny Sotelo
Photo Essays: Micha Bar-Am; Stanley Forman; Stan Grossfeld; Michele McDonald; Steve Northup; Eli Reed; Nancy Rhoda; Lester Sloan; David Turnley; Frank Van Riper
Watchdog Journalism: Introduction By Robert H. Phelps, Editor; How to Keep the Watchdogs Watching By Julia Keller; CNN’s Tightened Check On News Breaks By Eason Jordan
The Journalist's Trade: How VOA Reported Sex Charges By Mark B. Lewis; Legacy of Diana and the British Press By Peter Almond; Dramatizing a Story Through ‘High Density’ By David Halberstam; Progress by Washington Post Copyeditors: 1996 By Philip M. Foisie; Progress by Washington Post Copyeditors: 1997 By Geneva Overholser
Technology: On-line Profits From News Must Wait By Tom Regan
Curator's Corner: The Daily Work of the Media By Bill Kovach
Letters to the Editor: Tobacco and the American Civil Liberties Union; Indians Left Out
Books: Cloning, a Great Story, but Know What You Are Writing By Harold M. Schmeck, Jr.; Questioning the Press’s Adversarial Tone By Molly Marsh; Scoop Artist Who Isn’t a Journalist By Robert Lenzner; A Newsman’s Style as Envoy in Africa By Wilson Wanene; Who Knows Better—Critics or the People? By Lois Fiore
Nieman Notes: From Tiananmen To Harvard Square By Philip Cunningham; Carole Kneeland—Model of Excellence By Valerie Hyman

Lester Sloan

These photos are of men who attended the Million Man March on Washington in 1995. The event was defined by the media in terms of numbers, but to me it was as much about individuals and singular acts of rededication to self and family. And, despite what others said, it was more about the message than the messenger.

Ancestral Eyes

Unity

Sister, Sister

Dawn of a New Era

The Pride

The Elder

Lester Sloan, a 1976 Nieman Fellow, is a freelance photjournalist living in Los Angeles.

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