News Values: Ideas for an Information Age

by Jack Fuller

Book Overview

News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow.

"Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . 'Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk.'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226268799
• ISBN13: 9780226268798
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Superb!

This is simply an excellent book written by an obviously very bright, perceptive and experienced writer and editor in the newspaper industry. I have been practicing and/or teaching journalism for 20 years--and therefore have read a lot of books about journalism (the newspaper industry in particular)--and yet was quite impressed. The book's section on why journalists need to be better-educated, better-trained and more specialized alone justifies the book's publication. If only there were more evidence of Jack Fuller's insights, skills, philosophies, and conclusions in his company's Chicago Tribune--which in many ways does not, on a day-to-day basis, live up to its reputation.