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This book is an idealistic yet practical guide for journalism scholars, analysts, students, and professionals. Reflecting the mission of the Poynter Institute to educate journalists and media leaders to better serve the citizens of our democracy, its essays offer an inspiring vision of the practice and promise of journalism. From all corners of the fast-changing world of news gathering and publication, the contributors include some of the finest minds in American journalism, a provocative group of practical scholars and reflective practitioners who take journalism seriously as a subject of study and as a democratic art. The book combines cutting-edge theory with the latest journalistic practices. Many aspects of the news media are considered: reporting, writing, news judgment, editing, visual journalism, ethics, community coverage, language, ownership and leadership, new media, and race and diversity. The authors create a vision of modern journalism that is timely, hopeful, responsible, and creative. At a time when society relies more than ever on the information it receives, The Values and Craft of American Journalism offers a blueprint for constructing a pioneering relationship between journalists and the citizens they serve.

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This remarkable collection amounts to an inspiring manifesto - leading-edge contributions in every corner of the field, from design to the stature of photojournalism to online writing to civic journalism in broadcast and print. Its breadth is one of the strengths of this anthology. It will surely inspire, educate, and reinforce the most high-minded and conscientious people in the field. - Mark Kramer, Boston University

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Roy Peter Clark is senior scholar at the Poynter Institute and founder of its writing center. The author of two books, Free to Write and Coaching Writers, coeditor of America's Best Newspaper Writing, and a Distinguished Service Member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he is founding director of the National Writers' Workshop. Cole C. Campbell has been editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Virginian-Pilot, and the Greensboro News and Record and has served as a Fellow at the Poynter Institute, the Kettering Foundation, and the Knight program for journalists at Stanford University.

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