Thursday September 02, 2010

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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

Completely updated and revised
"The most important book on the relationship of journalism and democracy published in the last fifty years." – Roy Peter Clark, The Poynter Institute
We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too

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A landmark study on what people watch and why. The most exhaustive study ever of local TV news -- what helps ratings, what drives viewers away, and what editorial approaches and story-telling techniques most influence viewership.

Bill Kovach

The Changing Face of News

CCJ's expanded team of columnists explore how journalists can provide quality, verifiable news and information in a time of tremendous change.

 

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Journalism Training Based on the Elements of Journalism

A Washington, DC seminar program examines issues, ethics, and the elements of journalism.

A Summit to Improve the Journalistic Coverage of Public Education

IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...

The Rules of the Journalism Game

by Tracy Thompson

Jul 06, 2010 - Most reporters think that the average reader is totally in the dark about the rules of the journalism game. After the Washington Post fired one of its bloggers last week, readers would be justified in concluding that they know more about the rules than the journalists do.

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Articles

  • Queen of Queens and the News of New York
    Queen of Queens was the big news in New York on the last day of March. It had to be the big news because it was the headline, in big, black, four-and-a-half-inch-high letters, of the lead story in New York's Daily News.
  • The Lives of the Party
    Like many periodicals, The New York Review of Books covered last month’s Tea Party Convention in Nashville. Considering that what the computer nerds would call NYRB’s default political position is decidedly left of center, some readers might have been surprised at the result.
  • Journalists Love Polls
    Journalists love polls. And how could they not? Polls contain information. Objective, mathematical, precise information, presented with scientific certainty. No opinion. No fuzziness. Just the facts, ma'am.
  • Village People
    Timing may not be as vital in journalism as it is in comedy, but prominent pundits David Broder and Joe Klein might have been at least a tad embarrassed by the concurrence of their recent columns on Sarah Palin and the latest poll about her.
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Journalist in Residence

A unique opportunity to work and learn in the United States.

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J-Tools

CCJ has collected some of journalism's best ideas, strategies and techniques to help journalists and citizens alike.

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Newsroom Development

Training, Strategic Planning, Critical Thinking

You can bring the Committee’s Traveling Curriculum development program to your organization. The Traveling Curriculum offers customizable newsroom workshops that our staff of respected trainers has led in scores of print, broadcast, and online newsrooms of all sizes.

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