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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.

Publishing Tools for Online Journalists

Online Journalism Review, http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/tools/, January 9, 2007

The Online Journalism Review collected a list of sites and programs to help online journalists quickly and easily begin using multimedia and the internet to advance reporting and storytelling. The applications they assembled are low-cost, and many are even free.

The collected tools fall into one of the following categories:

1. Making multimedia

2. Blog and content management systems

3. Putting pictures on the web

4. Putting video on the web

5. Discussion forums

6. Creating RSS feeds

7. Email newsletters

8. Hosted, unstructured web pages

9. HTML and CSS references

Click here for OJR's collection of helpful online publishing tools.

 

J-Tools

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

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