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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» We're terribly sorry for the mistakes, but we'll be sure to keep your complaints anonymous from MadelynGillespie

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???

November 12, 2007 7:11 PM

Dennis G. Jerz said:

Thanks for asking, Bethany...

November 12, 2007 10:19 PM

Jeremy Barrick said:

Yes, what text? There is not one specified.

November 13, 2007 11:54 AM

Nessa said:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/VanessaKolberg/022224.html

November 13, 2007 11:55 AM

Dennis G. Jerz said:

Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists.

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

It's a free booklet of about 70 pages.

November 13, 2007 1:19 PM

Bethany Merryman said:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/BethanyMerryman/2007/11/no_one_said_life_was_fair.html

November 13, 2007 2:56 PM

Tiffany Gilbert said:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2007/11/kinda_like_parents_you_tell_th_1.html

Clickkkkkk meeee

November 13, 2007 3:40 PM

Tiffany Gilbert said:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2007/11/kinda_like_parents_you_tell_th_1.html

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November 13, 2007 3:41 PM

Chelsea Oliver said:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2007/11/ewwthose_crappy_journalists.html

^click it! click it!

November 13, 2007 3:48 PM

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

November 13, 2007 4:41 PM

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

November 13, 2007 5:03 PM

Jeremy Barrick said:

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeres my blog entry:
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2007/11/newspapers_are_unfair_when_the.html

November 13, 2007 9:40 PM

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

November 13, 2007 11:20 PM

Daniella Choynowski said:

okay seriously, trackbacks pleaaaaase come back!!!!!!!!
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2007/11/my_first_mistake.html