News Values: Ideas for an Information Age

By Jack Fuller

Book Overview

News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow.

"Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . 'Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk.' In all too many newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell bulletin."-Martin F. Nolan, New York Times Book Review

" News Values] ought to be required reading not just for those who work for newspapers, but for all those who read and care about them. . . . This book] seems destined to become one of those slim but important volumes people read for a long time to come."-Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal

"Fuller stays above the fray of the many books on the media]: His is a deeply intellectual approach, one that provides serious context to the highly complicated issue of how the news 'works.'"-Duncan McDonald, Chicago Tribune Books

"News Values has the touch and feel of knowledgeable, authentic caring about the kind of journalism than can help make society more cohesive, even human." -"Monitor's Pick," Christian Science Monitor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226268802
• ISBN13: 9780226268804
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Superb!

This is simply an excellent book written by an obviously very bright, perceptive and experienced writer and editor in the newspaper industry. I have been practicing and/or teaching journalism for 20 years--and therefore have read a lot of books about journalism (the newspaper industry in particular)--and yet was quite impressed. The book's section on why journalists need to be better-educated, better-trained and more specialized alone justifies the book's publication. If only there were more evidence of Jack Fuller's insights, skills, philosophies, and conclusions in his company's Chicago Tribune--which in many ways does not, on a day-to-day basis, live up to its reputation.