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  • Elements of Journalism
  • Bill Kovach and Tim Rosenstiel
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About the Book

Is journalism's first obligation the truth? How should journalists exercise their personal conscience? Must its practitioners maintain their independence from those they cover?

In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures that advertisers and new technologies were putting on newsrooms around the country. But, more than anything, they were aware that readers, listeners, and viewers - the people who use the news - were turning away from it in droves.

Calling themselves the Committee of Concerned Journalists, the twenty-five determined to find how the news had found itself in this state. Drawn from the committee's years of intensive research, dozens of surveys of readers, listeners, viewers, editors, and journalists, and more than one hundred intensive interviews with journalists and editors, The Elements of Journalism is the first book ever to spell out - both for those who create and those who consume the news - the principles and responsibilities of journalism.