Product Description: A collection of newspaper columns by a 43-year reporter and editor who, in retirement, continues his commentaries on people, politics and the impact of journalism on our democratic process. He is author of three previous books: "Public Journalism and Public Life, Why Telling the News in Not Enough;" in 1995;"The Two W's of Journalism" (with Max McCombs) in 2004, and "Knightfall: Knight Ridder and How the Erosion of Newspaper Journalism is Putting Democracy at Risk" in 2005...read more

Product Description: "The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear: Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of the press. And yet a force seemingly even more powerful than the supreme law of the land threatens one of our nation's most precious guarantors of freedom...read more

Product Description: The original edition of Public Journalism and Public Life, published in 1995, was the first comprehensive argument in favor of public journalism. Designed to focus the discussion about public journalism both within and outside the profession, the book has accomplished its purpose...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)