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

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"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

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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.

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Global Investigative Journalism Conference
Highlights from the 2007 GIJC annual conference

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IRE's guide to some of journalism's best recent investigative work

Reporting on Rural Realities

NewsLab, July 30, 2006

An article from CCJ partner NewsLab.

Think of most of the stories you’ve seen on television recently about rural America. They probably featured a farm or a ranch. Let’s face it, when stations set out to do stories in the rural parts of their ADI, they often focus on farming or ranching.

There are plenty of good stories in those areas, of course, from the transition to sustainable agriculture to "agritourism." But there’s also rich vein of rural stories yet to be mined.



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