Tuesday February 09, 2010

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.

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

April 24, 2007

The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Completely UPDATED and REVISED
-- by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

The Elements of Journalism delineates the core principles shared by journalists across media, even across cultures. These principles flow from the essential function news plays in people's lives. This new edition, published April 2007, is completely updated and revised and includes a new 10th principle--the rights and responsibilities of citizens--flowing from new power conveyed by technology to the citizen as a consumer and editor of their own news and information.
Lessons and ideas from The Elements of Journalism form the basis of CCJ's Traveling Curriculum newsroom training program.
Click here for a quick overview of the elements of journalism Kovach and Rosenstiel propose.

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