Tuesday February 07, 2012

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.

Brett Mueller, Website Manager

Gathers and maintains content for ConcernedJournalists.org and coordinates CCJ membership initiatives

Brett Mueller, Website Manager
E-mail Brett
Phone:  (202) 662-7158
Brett Mueller gathers, creates, and maintains content for the CCJ website. He also manages CCJ's membership of several thousand domestic and international journalists, educators, students, and citizens that share CCJ's commitment to engaging in an ongoing conversation about the principles of journalism.
Mueller recently completed work on a three-year academic assessment of the effects of CCJ's Traveling Curriculum Program on news organizations that received training.
Mueller previously served as a research coordinator with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania on a project that assisted local television stations around the country in improving political election coverage on their websites. His experiences working in news media include an internship with the George Michael Sports Machine at WRC-TV, Washington, DC, and hosting sports talk shows on his college and high school radio stations.
Mueller, who lives in Takoma Park, MD, earned a master's degree in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Ripon College in Ripon, WI.