For such enterprising reporting, he was convicted of revealing state secrets and sentenced last year to 12 years in prison.

It sounds like an appalling idea that is bound to compromise coverage, the sort of effort, like tonight's program, that relies on good intentions instead of enterprising, sustained, independent reporting.

Vanguard is Current's in-house journalism department, consisting of a team of young producers and correspondents who specialize in enterprising reporting on global issues.

In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country.

An advance look at most of the first program (lacking only the cloning segment, Time's contribution this week) finds variety along with familiarity and enterprising reporting along with tired visual effects (hand-held camera work, slow-motion, spooky images).

Even Caijing, a magazine with a strong reputation for enterprising reporting on delicate topics, demurred.

"We always knew there was a risk in the kind of journalism we did," said Jesus Blancornelas, Mr. Felix's partner in Zeta, which mixes political satire, enterprising reporting and trenchant analysis.

The old listings required great care, but they called for neither enterprising reporting nor graceful style nor, really, for critical judgment.

The apartment bombings in Moscow, linked in the popular mind to Chechen terrorists, helped make it so, and Chechen kidnapping of Russian journalists in their region provided little incentive for enterprising reporting.

America's liberal system of tort law, along with the enterprising reporting of journalists at newspapers like the Boston Globe, brought the problem to light earlier here than elsewhere.