Journalist’s Trade

Journalism stands apart from other academic pursuits.

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

There are key roles for educators to play in this transformation.

The purpose of journalism education can’t be addressed without determining why journalists do what they do.

At Berkeley, a professor is using Weblogs as a new approach to teaching both.

An aspiring reporter ‘doesn’t need to learn how—he needs to learn what.’

‘For craft training to be accorded due respect does not mean all else must be shunned.’

This list of recommended books has been assembled by Boyce Rensberger, director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It represents only a start on…

Waste and pollution are the result of the paper that fuels the timber industry.

With more newspapers now using graphics to display information, John Maxwell Hamilton, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University, along with several colleagues, examined how…