Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and LifeUniversity of Missouri Press, 2007 - 195 pàgines 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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Introduction by Philip Meyer | 1 |
1Never Be Satisfied with Merely Printing the News | 7 |
2My Old Secondhand Sweater | 14 |
3A Personal Life and an Occupation | 18 |
4A Journalist s Thanksgiving | 22 |
5Our Journalism and Our Humanity | 26 |
6The Great Purpose | 30 |
7Who Owns a Newspaper? | 34 |
24Be Aware of Style | 102 |
25Writing for the Ages | 106 |
26Artists of Small Perfection | 110 |
27The Three Pulitzers and Their Ideals | 117 |
28A Failure to Verify | 121 |
29ReadReadRead | 125 |
30The Importance of Character | 129 |
31Children and War | 132 |
8Stacking the Deck | 41 |
9Writing for the Humble Heart | 44 |
10Knowing Enough | 46 |
11The People Watching in the Distance | 50 |
12Simple Writing Is Not Easy Writing | 53 |
13Choosing the Right Words | 57 |
An Example | 61 |
15Stay with Your Story | 67 |
16We Dissect a Column | 71 |
17Keeping Control | 75 |
18The Importance of a Second Look | 79 |
19Our Changing Popular Culture | 83 |
20Attention to Detail | 86 |
21The Uses of Introspection | 89 |
22A Column Writer s Freedom | 93 |
23The Parable of the Unhappy People | 97 |
32A Case of Libel | 136 |
33Independence from Government | 140 |
34Serving the Public Trust | 144 |
35To Travel FarYou Must Choose a Direction | 148 |
36The Sin of Pride | 151 |
37The Limits of Free Expression | 155 |
38Ethical Journalism versus Journalism Ethics | 160 |
39Avoiding Stereotypes | 164 |
40Narrative Journalism and Its Risks | 168 |
41Beware the Master Narrative | 172 |
42AccuracyAccuracyAccuracy | 176 |
43Reconciling Journalism and Humanity | 180 |
44The Time Has Come | 184 |
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