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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

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.

Tools for Teachers

  • Multimedia Literacy is Not Optional
    The method you use to tell a story tells a story of its own: about your fears and your strengths and your comfort level using unfamiliar tools. It’s a small wonder that newsrooms may be eager to take refuge in the familiar, but that has to change.
  • Reinvent Journalism in 10 Easy Steps
    We love lists. Lists are good. List provide a nifty, economical way to provide words to live by or talking points for further discussion. So here are the Top 10 ways you can reinvent journalism.
  • Wikipedia & Newsrooms
    Wikipedia still doesn't get much respect in newsrooms. But some reporters are using the online encyclopedia anyone can edit as a valuable trove of links to primary material.
  • As The Nose Grows
    Candidates say a lot of things. Sometimes what they say isn't exactly accurate, and that's where journalists come in. One newspaper's fact-finding mission is taking its cue from its readers.
  • 'Hyperlocal' Copy Editing
    If newspapers and Web sites are getting increasingly local in their coverage to survive, shouldn’t copy editors also become increasingly local?
  • Reporting the 'True War'
    This excerpt from former CBS and ABC correspondent John Laurence's book 'The Cat from Hue' describes in detail how issues of bias, access to information and difficulties in verifying 'fact' intersect to make war reporting difficult.
  • Circles of Corroboration
    David Protess and his journalism classes have used this accuracy approach to save the lives of death row prisoners who have been wrongly convicted.
  • How People Learn from the Press
    CCJ's Chairmen examine the concept of the "Interlocking Public," which posits that media should recognize through diverse content that everyone is "interested and even expert in something."
  • How Networks "Make the Call" on Election Night
    CBS News Public Eye Editor Vaughn Ververs explains "one of the most misunderstood parts of Election Night coverage" - how the networks "call" election results before all of the votes have been counted.
  • Local TV News Project
    PEJ's unprecedented 5-year study of the correlation between quality local television journalism and ratings.
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