Contents
The contents of the book are listed under each chapter heading. The links at the chapter headings will take you to the chapter sections on this web site where you will find a great deal of material not included in the book.
Section I: What
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
News values
Why news matters
SIDEBAR: Everybody talks about the weather
News and the social order
SIDEBAR: Theodore Roosevelt and the Bully Pulpit
WHAT DO YOU THINK? The journalist’s dilemma
Pressures on journalists
SIDEBAR: A passport, a keyboard and a paycheck
The job of the journalist
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 2: Culture of Journalism
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Should journalists share quotes?
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
The world of the journalist
Character and characteristics
Skepticism and cynicism
Working within the news organization
Dealing with sources
Objectivity and fairness
SIDEBAR: Liberal or conservative media? (Part 1)
Unacceptable practices
SIDEBAR: Liberal or conservative media? (Part 2)
News organizations in the larger culture of journalism
SIDEBAR: Civic journalism
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 3: Becoming a Journalist
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Prepare
Learn about the field
Getting trained
SIDEBAR: Getting help
Go to work
SIDEBAR: Joining up
Get started
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Section II: Where
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Initiators of journalism
Organizational structure: the business side
Organization structure: the editorial side
SIDEBAR: The Black Press: An Alternative Voice in American Journalism
The editorial page
Newspapers today
SIDEBAR: Small newspaper, big-time journalism
Major players in the newspaper industry
The future of newspapers
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and referenc
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
SIDEBAR: On the cover of Rolling Stone
Why magazine journalism?
Structure of the magazine industry
SIDEBAR: Slate.com: Overcoming the E-zine Doubters
Creating a magazine
Staff structure and employment
SIDEBAR: A month in the life of the art director
Magazine journalism
Freelance writing
The future of magazines
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Chapter 6: Television and Radio
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Impact and immediacy
Radio: news at a different level
Local television
SIDEBAR: Public broadcasting
Television news
SIDEBAR: The JFK assassination: Television's first big story
Regulation of broadcasting
The future of broadcasting
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
The difference of the web?
The news web site
Owned and operated
Independently owned
SIDEBAR: Questions of credibility plague the web
Web logs: a new form of journalism?
Whither web sites?
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Section III: Who and How
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
What reporters do
Personal characteristics
SIDEBAR: Profile of the American Journalist
Becoming a professional
SIDEBAR: The most gratifying moment
Getting there: Becoming a reporter
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Five Ws and One H
Types of sources
SIDEBAR: Tips on covering a beat
Interviewing
SIDEBAR: A dozen interviewing tips
A note on accuracy
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
Chapter 10: Writing news and features
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Basic writing characteristics
SIDEBAR: Writing values and advice
Writing conventions
Attribution
Other writing conventions
The inverted pyramid
The lead paragraph
SIDEBAR: Inverted pyramid checklist
Developing the story
Feature styles
Characteristics of feature writing
Read, analyze, emulate
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Examples
Exercises
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Wire service stylebooks
SIDEBAR: Trademarks
Journalistic conventions
SIDEBAR: Basic AP style rules
Language sensitivity
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
The most important job
Who is the editor?
Traits of an editor
The editor-writer relationship
SIDEBAR: Editors, watch out for those writers
What the editor must do
Getting to be an editor
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 13: Editing and headline writing
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Accuracy
Checking facts
SIDEBAR: A day in the life of a copyeditor
Brevity
Clarity
Editing procedure
Principles of headline writing
Guidelines
Procedure
Headlines on the Web
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
Chapter 14: Visual Journalists
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Words and pictures
Photojournalism – journalism, only different
Life and times of the photojournalist
The digital revolution
Designers
Graphics journalists
The importance of the visual
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 15: Graphics Journalism
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Principles of design
Conventions of graphics
The good graphic
Types of graphics
Developing infographics
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Basics of photojournalism
Photographer’s commitment
The photojournalist in action
Newsworthy photos
Photo editing
Cropping
Scaling
Digital photography
Ethics and taste
Cutlines
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
Chapter 17: Publication Design
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Design
Visual logic
Type
Type on the page
Illustration
White space
Newspaper design
Types of newspaper design
Principles of layout
News judgment
SIDEBAR: Steps in laying out a page
Laying out a page
Twelve rules
Web site design
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Broadcast journalists
The world of broadcasting
Selection of news
News department organization
How reporters work
SIDEBAR: Make the news relevant for people's lives
Broadcast news formats
Salaries in broadcast journalism
Getting into broadcast journalism
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 19: Writing for Broadcast
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Characteristics of writing
Story structure
SIDEBAR: Lose the accent
Broadcast writing style
Broadcast copy preparation
SIDEBAR: The hissing sibilant
Putting together a newscast
Conclusion
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Exercises
Section IV: When
Chapter 20: Beginnings of Journalism
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Where does journalism begin?
The printing press
Dangerous information
The New World
Benjamin Franklin
SIDEBAR: Women in 18th century journalism
The fire of revolution
SIDEBAR: James Rivington and the Tory Press
Partisanship
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Reading and reference
Chapter 21: Journalism Comes of Age
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Change and more change
The Penny Press
James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald
SIDEBAR Samuel F.B. Morse: What Hath God Wrought!
Sectionalism, slavery and abolition
The growth of magazines
SIDEBAR: Picturing the rich and the famous
The Civil War
The end of the war and its aftermath
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Chapter 22: New Realities, New Journalism
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
A profession matures
A generation of growth
An age of personalities
SIDEBAR: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
Advancing technology
SIDEBAR: Yellow Journalism
Reporters and reporting
SIDEBAR: “Stunt” Journalism Nellie Bly
Change in advertising
The watchdog press
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Chapter 23: 20th Century and Beyond
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
A century of technology
The decline of newspapers
The development of radio
Time and development of the news magazine
SIDEBAR: Henry Luce and the March of Time
Television
SIDEBAR: Watergate: A ‘third-rate burglary’ and a Pulitzer for two young reporters
Newspapers: clouded stability and prosperity
Expanding television with cable
The development of the web
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Section V: Why
Chapter 24: Law and the Journalist
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
Corruption in Minneapolis
Legal precedents
SIDEBAR: The state of the First Amendment
The First Amendment
Defamation
Defenses against libel suits
SIDEBAR: Developing the concept of the public figure
Copyright and Trademarks
Privacy
WHAT DO YOU THINK? What would you do?
Legal protections for journalists
Free press-fair trial
Constant vigilance
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
The good journalist
An approach to ethical behavior
SIDEBAR: Loyalty to what?
Ethical difficulties
Persistent problems
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Chapter 26: Present and Future
SIDEBAR: Key concepts and terms
An open profession
Financial state of the profession
Areas of concern, optimism
Changing technology, changing audience
Questions for discussion
Related web sites
Readings and reference
Index
Section I | 1: News and Society | 2: Culture of Journalism | 3: Becoming a Journalist
Section II | 4: Newspapers | 5: Magazines | 6: Television and Radio | 7: News Web Sites
Section III | 8: Reporters | 9: Reporting | 10: Writing news and features | 11: Style |
12: Editors | 13: Editing and headline writing | 14: Visual Journalists |
15: Graphics Journalism | 16: Photojournalism | 17: Publication Design |
18: Broadcasters | 19: Writing for Broadcast
Section IV | 20: Beginnings of Journalism | 21: Journalism Comes of Age |
22: New Realities, New Journalism | 23: 20th Century and Beyond
Section V | 24: Law and the Journalist | 25: Ethical Practices | 26: Present and Future
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