News Values: Ideas for an Information Age by Jack Fuller

News Valuesis a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow.Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk. In all too many newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell bulletin.Martin F. Nolan, New York Times Book Review[News Values] ought to be required reading not just for those who work for newspapers, but for all those who read and care about them. . . . [This book] seems destined to become one of those slim but important volumes people read for a long time to come.Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street JournalFuller stays above the fray [of the many books on the media]: His is a deeply intellectual approach, one that provides serious context to the highly complicated issue of how the news works.Duncan McDonald, Chicago Tribune BooksNews Valueshas the touch and feel of knowledgeable, authentic caring about the kind of journalism than can help make society more cohesive, even human. Monitors Pick, Christian Science Monitor

Author: Jack Fuller

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 266

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication Date: 1996-04-01