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Journalism

Block, Mervin. Writing Broadcast News: Shorter, Sharper, Stronger. Bonus Books, 1997. Useful advice from a news writer.

Blundell, William E. The Art and Craft of Feature Writing. Plume, 1988. A Wall Street Journal writer offers useful advice.

Kerrane, Kevin, and Ben Yagoda, eds. The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism. Scribner, 1997. A collection of stories ranging from Charles Dickens and Jack London to Gay Talese and Joan Didion.

Murray, Donald M. Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work. Heinemann, 2000. The experiences and advice of a Boston Globe columnist.

Serrin, William, ed. The Business of Journalism: Ten Leading Reporters and Editors on the Perils and Pitfalls of the Press. New Press, 2000. Essays by 10 prominent journalists, collected by a former reporter for the New York Times.

Walker, Stanley. City Editor. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. The joys of covering New York City for the New York Herald Tribune in the 1920s and 1930s.

News reporting

Cushman, Kathleen and Miller, Edward. How to Produce a Small Newspaper. Harvard Common, 1983. Valuable details and instructions on editorial content, production, advertising, distribution, and financing.

Dexter, Gerry L. Muzzled Media: How to Get the News You've Been Missing. Tiare, 1986. A look behind the newspaper headlines.

Manoff, Robert K. and Schudson, Michael, eds. Reading the News: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture. Pantheon, 1987. Provocative essays question the five w's of journalism.

Metzler, Ken. Newsgathering. Prentice, 1986. Detailed guide to reporting and obtaining news, tricks of the trade, and trends.

Mitford, Jessica. Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking. Farrar, Straus, 1988. First-rate evaluation, including 17 of the author's exposés.

Sabato, Larry. Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics. Free, 1991. 36 case studies illustrating how the American press reports the lapses of politicians.

Steffens, Lincoln. The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. Harcourt, 1931. 1968. Vivid chronicle of the muckraking journalist.

Strentz, Herbert. News Reporters and News Sources. Iowa State University Press, 1989. Scholarly discussion of the ethics, hazards, and methods of reporting the news.

Tuchman, Gaye. Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality. Free, 1978. Sociological study of newspaper operations, a TV newsroom, and “created news.”

Williams, W. P. How to Start Your Own Newspaper. Contemporary, 1979. Introduction to publishing a weekly newspaper.

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Coleridge, Nicholas. Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons. Birch Lane, 1994. A look at the owners of influential newspapers.

Crosby, Diane. Create Your Own Class Newspaper: A Complete Guide for Planning, Writing, and Publishing a Newspaper. Incentive Publications, 1995. A resource for school newspaper advisors and their students.

Kurtz, Howard. Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers. Random House, 1994. The media reporter for the Washington Post offers his views.

Manoff, Robert K. and Schudson, Michael, eds. Reading the News: A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture. Pantheon, 1987. Provocative essays question the five w's of journalism.

Picard, Robert G., and Jeffrey Brody. The Newspaper Publishing Industry. Prentice Hall, 1996. A primer on the industry, the daily operations of a newspaper, and issues facing the industry.

Turner, Hy B. When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, New York's Great Newspaper Street. Fordham University Press, 1999. Traces a century in the history of the newspaper.

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