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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

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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.

Links of the Week



Global Investigative Journalism Conference
Highlights from the 2007 GIJC annual conference

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

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Tools for Teachers

  • 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.
  • Campaign 2000
    CCJ and PEJ's research on media coverage of the 2000 Presidential campaign.
  • The Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
    PEJ's research on media coverage of the Lewinsky-Clinton story and the Clinton White House.
  • How the News is Framed
    The Project for Excellence in Journalism's study of the various narrative story telling frames employed in presenting the news.

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