Speeches

Friday March 12, 2010

Featured Contributors

Tom Avila

Jon Margolis

Tracy Thompson

CCJ Books

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

Just Released
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.

Broccoli, or Brownies?
Journalists often discuss the issue of audience as a dichotomy – do we give people what they want or what they need? In the Committee’s work with journalists, we have been told that the question does not have to be either/or. Instead, why not find important news and then present it in ways that make it interesting?
The Digital Future in My Hometown, Where All the Stories Are Above Average
Minnesota State University's Scott Olson delivered this uniquely narrative speech to drive home the point that it's the stories - not the medium through which they're told - that matter most for journalists and all communicators.
Digital Journalism: Promise and Problems
Huntly Collins outlines the potential the Web holds for journalism, and implores her audience to think creatively about how to overcome the Web's journalistic shortcomings.
AP's Curley: We Have Come to a 'Fork in the Road'
President and CEO of the AP Tom Curley says journalism needs to take bold, decisive steps to secure audiences and funding or risk fading into obscurity.
Who Creates Reality?
CCJ Founding Chairman Bill Kovach's 2007 Baccalaureate Address to Boston University students invites graduates to view the world around them skeptically - to see it as it REALLY exists and not merely how those in powerful positions would have them see it.
Cronkite: Corp. Ownership Places Unrealistic Expectations on Working Journalists
Transcript of legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite's address to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism's Forum on Media Ownership.
Cronkite: Profit Quest Threatens Democracy
Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite says today's journalists face greater challenges than those from his generation because their employers can no longer be trusted to provide the resources necessary to expose truth and weed out corruption.
Snob Journalism: Elitism Versus Ethics for a Profession in Crisis
CCJ Vice-Chairman Tom Rosenstiel examines the question, "Why do professionalism and a thorough discussion of ethics and high standards in journalism scare people?"
Newspaper Cuts Threaten Journalists' Abilities to "Bear Witness"
Los Angeles Times reporter Henry Weinstein discusses the impact of staff cuts at his paper and around the newspaper industry on journalists' abilities to provide readers the coverage they need and deserve.
The Crisis in American Journalism: Is This the Best We Can Do Under the Circumstances?
A transcript of CCJ Executive Director Jeffrey Dvorkin's Nov. 10 speech on the tough questions facing journalists and where they might look for answers and inspiration.

Journalist in Residence

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Bill Kovach Honored

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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Newsroom Development

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