Best Practices

Read pages 1-28. Please pick your agenda item from after page 9 -- the introduction and executive summary are a little too compact and encapsulated to sustain much discussion.

Try to relate your agenda item to an issue you have encountered in your own reporting, or something you have noticed in the news lately.

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I never truly realised that having so many grammatical and seemingly commonsense errors encouraged a loss of credibility for newspapers. I know that when I read the newspaper occasionally, that I just smile and shake my head at a mistake... Read More

» The effects of error. from CoreyStruss

"For every mistake, a form is fill out answering such questions as: Who made this error? How did it occur? How did it come to our attention? Were deadlines a factor? Could it have been avoided? The form displays the... Read More

» Best Practices pgs1-28 from MichellePolly

         This talks about how there are many times when the newspaper gets the facts wrong.  This is an awful thing to happen.  It is crucial for the reporters to get their facts right, they cant write ... Read More

» My First Mistake from DaniellaChoynowski

"Although many journalists may think that spelling and grammar errors, wrong names, wrong titles, wrong addresses, wrong dates and other similar mistakes have relatively little to do with the press's credibility, the public sees it otherwise" pg 13 Ame... Read More

15 Comments

Bethany Merryman said:

Hey Dr. Jerz,
What pages are the reading assignment on???

Thanks for asking, Bethany...

Jeremy Barrick said:

Yes, what text? There is not one specified.

Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists.

http://www.freedomforum.org/publications/diversity/bestpractices/bestpractices.pdf

It's a free booklet of about 70 pages.

Maddie Gillespie said:

You know you want to click it!! Go ahead...the others will never know.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2007/11/were_terribly_sorry_for_the_mi_1.html

Jackie Johns said:

unfortunately, I read pg 1-28 of America's Best Newspaper Writing and blogged about it before I realized it wasn't the right book. But so I won't feel like I completely wasted by time, I posted both!

the right one: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JacquelynJohns/2007/11/just_say_youre_sorry.html

the wrong one: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JacquelynJohns/2007/11/power_of_the_personal.html

Corey Struss said:

In case the TrackBacks didn't work. . . HERE YA GO.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/CoreyStruss/2007/11/the_effects_of_error.html

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