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Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life

Autor William F. Woo Editat de Philip Meyer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2007 – vârsta ani
  William F. Woo, born in China, was the first person outside the Pulitzer family to edit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. After forty years in the newsroom, Woo embarked on a second career in 1996 teaching journalism at Stanford University, where he wrote weekly informal essays to his students in the same personal style that characterized his columns for the Post-Dispatch. Each made a philosophical point about journalism and society and their delicate relationship over the last half of the twentieth century.
            Woo was revered as both a writer and a reporter, and this volume collects some of the best of those essays to the next generation of journalists on their craft’s high purpose. As inspiration for students from someone who knew the ropes, it distills the essence of the values that define independent journalism while offering them invaluable food for thought about their future professions.
            The essays touch on a wide range of subjects. Woo reflects on journalism as a public trust, requiring the publication of stories that give readers a better understanding of society and equip them to change it for the better. He also ponders print journalism conducted in the face of broadcast and online competition along with the transformation of newspapers from privately owned to publicly traded companies. Here too are personal reflections on the Pulitzer family’s impact on journalism and on the tensions between a journalist’s personal and professional life, as well as the conflicts posed by political advocacy versus free speech or a reporter’s expertise versus a newspaper’s credibility.
            Woo’s idealistic spirit conveys the virtues of his era’s newspaper journalism to the next generation of journalists—and most likely to the next generation of news media as well. Even as new students of journalism have an eye on an electronic future, Woo’s essays come straight from a newsman’s heart and soul to remind them of values worth preserving.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826217554
ISBN-10: 0826217559
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Missouri Press
Colecția University of Missouri

Recenzii

“Exceptional. . . . Woo has distilled the essence of the values that define an independent journalism of verification. He has artfully and with an economy of words embedded those values in narrative ‘teaching’—or as he calls them—‘learning’ moments. This work is a great read that will engage and enchant a new generation of aspiring journalists.”—Bill Kovach, coauthor of Elements of Journalism

Notă biografică

 About the Author
            William F. Woo (1936–2006) was the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Journalism at Stanford University.
 
About the Editor
 
            Philip Meyer is Knight Chair and Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or coeditor of a number of books, including The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age and
Assessing Public Journalism, both available from theUniversity of Missouri Press.

 

Descriere

Woo was the first person outside the Pulitzer family to edit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. After forty years in the newsroom, Woo embarked on a second career teaching journalism at Stanford. This volume collects some of the best informal weekly essays he wrote to his students on their craft’s high purpose. Among the wide-ranging topics are reflections on journalism as a public trust and print journalism conducted in the face of broadcast and online competition. Also included are personal reflections on the Pulitzer family’s impact on journalism, the tensions between a journalist’s personal and professional life, and the conflicts posed by political advocacy vs. free speech or a reporter’s expertise vs. a newspaper’s credibility. Woo’s essays come straight from a newsman’s heart and soul to remind new students of journalism of values worth preserving.