Journalist’s Trade

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What right do the public and journalists have to see data about children’s health and the environment?

But the Klamath River story is a whole lot more complicated than that.

A reporter explains his misgivings about this complicated story.

“To teach the craft of journalism is a worthy goal but clearly insufficient in this new world and within the setting of a great university,” Lee C. Bollinger, the new…

Journalism stands apart from other academic pursuits.

Important lessons are taught in the much-maligned ‘skills courses.’