Journalism

Part I: Authorship & Craft 1. Introduction 2. George Orwell, "Why I Write" 3. V.S. Naipaul, "On Being a Writer" 4. Joan Didion, "Why I Write" 5. Salman Rushdie, "In Good Faith" 6. George Plimpton, "Maya Angelou" 7. Robert Stone, "The Reason for Stories" 8. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench Part II: The Elements of Journalism A. NEWS 9. Introduction 10. Walter Lippmann, "The Nature of News" 11. Helen MacGill Hughes, "From Politics to Human Interest" 12. Frank Luther Mott, "What's the News?" 13. Daniel Boorstin, "From News Gathering to News Making: A Flood of Pseudo-Events" 14. Max Ways, "What's Wrong with News? It's Not New Enough" 15. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench B. FACTS AND EVIDENCE 16. Introduction 17. Walter Lippmann, "News, Truth, and a Conclusion" 18. John Carey, "Introduction" 19. James S. Ettema & Theodore L. Glasser, "On the Epistemology of Investigative Journalism" 20. John G. Morris, "Tuesday Was a Good D-Day for Life" 21. David Halberstam, "Getting the Story in Vietnam" 22. John Hersey, "The Legend on the License" 23. Seymour Hersh, "How I Broke the Mylai 4 Story" 24. Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiell, "Journalism of Verification" 25. Christopher Lydon, "The Boston Hoax: She Fought It, He Bought It" 26. Victor Cohn, "The Scientific Way" 27. Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave" 28. Roy Peter Clark, "The Line Between Fact and Fiction" 29. Robert Ezra Park, "News as a Form of Knowledge" 30. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench C. LANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE 31. Introduction 32. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" 33. Hugh Kenner, "The Politics of Plain Style" 34. S.I. Hayakawa & Alan R. Hayakawa, "Reports, Inferences, Judgments" 35. Robert Scholes & Robert Kellog, "The Narrative Tradition" 36. Tom Wolfe, "The Feature Game", "Like a Novel, "Seizing the Power" 37. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench D. INTERPERTATION 38. Introduction 39. Commission on Freedom of the Press, "The Requirements" 40. James Carey, "The Dark Continent of American Journalism" 41. Paul Starobin (with Pamela Varley), "Covering Campaign '96: The Conceptual Scoop" 42. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench Part III: Summation 43. An Introduction 44. G. Stuart Adam, Notes Towards a Definition of Journalism: Understanding an Old Craft as an Art Form 45. Study Guide: Talking Points and Workbench