Tuesday February 09, 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.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT ...

You talkin' to us, Mr. President?

by Jon Margolis

Feb 02, 2010 -

You talkin’ to us, Mr. President?

Sure sounded that way:

“The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates to silly arguments, big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away,” he said toward the end of his State of the Union speech.

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Articles

  • No, Virginia (and New Jersey), the World Did Not Begin in 2006
    One the morning of Election Day, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s campaign last year, was on NBC’s Today show to plug his new book, The Audacity to Win. But first, co-host Meredith Vieira had to ask him about that day’s elections
  • Getting it Wrong in the Neighborhood."
    Anybody who’s been in this business for a week or more has heard the gripe of someone who lost all faith in news coverage the first time there was a story in the neighborhood
  • The Press Pass Shield
    Way back when I was still young and green enough to be thrilled to be in possession of an honest-to-God press pass, an old-timer passed on a piece of wisdom. “Having a press pass,” he said, “has kept me out of a lot of places I coulda gotten into if I hadn’t had a press pass.”
  • Reason and Its Discontents
    Are we all forgetting something? Or, more precisely, ignoring something? Well, not entirely, at least not any more. Not since Maureen Dowd’s column in Sunday’s New York Times declared that one reason for the current political tumult
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Bill Kovach Honored

Bill Kovach Kiplinger Award

Bill Kovach, founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists,will receive the National Press Foundation’s 2010 W.M. Kiplinger Award.

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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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