‘… the usual “he said, she said” quotes I read in press accounts have little or nothing to do with the actual issues raised by the Pennsylvania case.’

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’

‘Cartoon ideas presented themselves, but none embraced the gravity of the situation.’

‘How can we expect Americans to know anything beyond what they happen to remember from science class? Journalists certainly don’t tell them.’

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism.

‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’

A Washington Post correspondent’s book ‘is not a policy screed or a compilation of talking heads and experts.’

Providing the public with ‘accurate, complete and fair information was, and remains for most, an unknown concept.’

New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’

“Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War,” a book written by Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from…