Professional Writing Guide: Journalism

This book helps readers to understand today's media environment, and prepares them to face the existing challenges. The book fairly and objectively discusses a critical discipline that is at the crossroads.

The book highlights for students and scholars emerging issues, enduring themes, revitalized theories, and fresh conceptualizations of journalism.

This book is one of the first systematic studies of the ethical foundations of engaged journalism for a media that is increasingly perspectival and embedded in society. A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere.

This manual to print and online media journalism explores the personal qualities and skills needed to break into this field. It considers the current state of expanding media, routes into the industry, and the pros and cons of being a staff journalist or freelance.