Journalist’s Trade

‘Frontline editors usually come from reporting ranks, and it is not unusual for problems to emerge in the transition.’

The frontline editor’s job is one that, in the words of Jacqui Banaszynski, who holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, “has expanded…

There are available ‘… few books, a large but scattered field of articles, and the handouts and tip sheets collected at relatively few Web sites.’

‘Journalism educators are in a state of disquiet, if not distress, at their students’ lack of the broad background essential for independent journalism.’

The BBC is establishing a College of Journalism to raise and support editorial standards. All journalistic staff in the BBC will be given a minimum level of training each year,…

With The Associated Press offering an ‘optional lead,’ questions arise about the handling of yesterday’s news.

‘… the greater velocity of information today multiplies the opportunities for confusing and misleading the public.’

Students who didn’t read newspapers started doing so, and before long they knew a lot about journalism and were inventing news outlets of their own.

These excerpts from editorials illustrate how, as Michael Gartner writes, “personality—personal and institutional—made the men voices to be listened to and made the institutions forces to be reckoned with.” “Unworthy…

The problem editors face is figuring out how to get people to read editorials.