Journalism and Truth: Strange Bedfellows/What Good Is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America's Way of Life

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The Lifeblood of a Democracy (Sandy Davidson and Betty Winfield); NPR Offers News and Companionship (Geneva Overholser); The Hometown Newspaper Builds Community (Judy Bolch); Watchdogs of Government Serve Citizens (Wesley G. Pippert); and Investigative Reporting Saves Lives (Brant Houston). Stuart Loory, in What Good Is Journalism?, proposes news councils that are independent of newsmakers and other vested interests, as well as educational programs for news consumers on how news organizations function.

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Journalism and Truth: Strange Bedfellows/What Good Is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America's Way of Life

* Goldstein, Tom (2007). Journalism and Truth: Strange Bedfellows. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, pp. 207.

* Kennedy, George and Daryl Moen (eds.) (2007). What Good Is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America's Way of Life. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, pp. 171.

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