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Chapter 1

Here you will find student resources related to Principles of American Journalism, including:

  • Flashcards to test your knowledge of key terms and subjects
  • Links to additional resources for projects and papers
  • Quizzes to practice what you’ve learned.

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  • The news show "60 minutes" is featured in Chapter 1. See the brief obituary of the man who created the show: “Father of TV News Remembered,” CBS Evening News, August 19, 2009
  • National Press Photographers Association has ethical guidelines and training for best practices in photo and video journalism
  • Your university library holds many full text digital records of newspapers, even those that might not have been online originally. Become familiar with how to search the holdings available to you by looking up and reading the rest of Bill Allen’s stories about Ameren and Church Mountain.
    • William Allen. “Ameren Eyes Mountaintop Power Plant, but Proposal Angers Some,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 24, 2001.
    • William Allen. “Ameren Drops Plans for Plant in the Ozarks,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 30, 2001.
  • News is more than mere information or gossip, yet even Snapchat can be used by serious reporters. See Benjamin Mullin, “Washington Post campaign reporter Dan Balz brings viewers on the trail with Snapchat,” Poynter, July 24, 2015.
    See Dan Balz on Twitter.
  • Lasantha Wickramatunga, “And Then They Came for Me,” The Sunday Leader, Jan. 11, 2009
  • CBS News 60 Minutes, “A Crime Against Humanity,” Aug. 23, 2015
  • Lasantha Wickramatunga, “And Then They Came for Me,” The Sunday Leader, Jan. 11, 2009
  • World Bank Institute. “Social Accountability in the Public Sector.” Washington, D.C.: WBI Working Paper No. 33641 (2005).
  • James S. Ettema & Theodore L. Glasser Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  • CBS News 60 Minutes, “A Crime Against Humanity,” Michael Schudson, Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, Malden, MA: Polity, 2008.
  • Mitchell Stephens, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
  • Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
  • Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, New York: Free Press, 1965. Originally published in 1922.
  • John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, New York: Henry Holt, 1927.
  • Commission on Freedom of the Press, A Free and Responsible Press: A General Report on Mass Communication: Newspapers, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, and Books. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1947.
  • Rodney A. Smolla, Free Speech in an Open Society. New York: Random House, 1992.