Two W's of Journalism: The Why and What of Public Affairs Reporting. By Davis Merritt, Maxwell E. McCombs

D. Merritt, M. E. McCombs. Two W's of Journalism: The Why and What of Public Affairs Reporting (Lea's Communication Series)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | 2004 | ISBN: 0805847316 | 175 pages | PDF | 8 Mb | rar

Public affairs journalism is a subcategory of all journalism, but it lies at the core of the profession because the practice of journalism is, finally, inseparable from the practice of democracy. Doing journalism of any sort requires two important sets of talents reporting the news and presenting the news.
For the most part, journalists' understanding of how to report the most relevant events and situations of the moment is based on the traditions and routines expressed in news values and news beats. Those notions of how to present this news also are grounded in the honed norms and routines of the newsroom.

The purpose of this book is considerably more than to add another voice to the critical chorus. Rather, its purpose is to probe the foundations of public affairs journalism, to bring to the forefront the core professional question of "why do we do it?" and then to build on the goals identified there by asking "what are the ways of fulfilling those goals?"

For newsrooms, the aim of this book is to stimulate the examination of contemporary practice in light of these foundations. In the classroom, the aim of this book is to complement reporting, editing and news writing textbooks and the essential training in journalistic skills with a detailed understanding of journalism's larger end. As the nation settles into this new century and its cacophony of journalistic voices, explicit elaboration of the foundations of journalism is essential in both of these settings.

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