The Thirty-Five Day Hold
Closed mid-April 1999 · On stands late April 1999
The Front
On the Hold
A short column on the etiquette and economics of the network embargo — who asks for one, who grants it, what it costs the story
The Site That Never Loads Fast Enough
A short note on the growing frustration with over-designed corporate web sites, users increasingly bailing after a slow-loading splash page
The Essay
The Thirty-Five Day Hold
NBC aired its Dateline interview on February 24th after holding it thirty-five days; the piece treats the network's corroboration standard as the story, the allegation itself held at arm's length as illustration of process
The Foreign File
The Road to Kukës
A dispatch from the Kosovar refugee corridor into northern Albania, five weeks into the NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, tracking a UNHCR registration line and the aid convoys that can't keep pace with it
The Back
The Suite Nobody Photographs
A short piece on the season's quietest luxury trend — hotel suites booked under assistants' names, the point being not to be seen