Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local

by Jock Lauterer

Book Overview

No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don't get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal approach expected of major international publications. As the primary textbook and sourcebook for the teaching and practice of local journalism and newspaper publishing in the United States, Community...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856290
• ISBN13: 9780807856291
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

the bible of community journalism

This is an entertaining, inspiring, well written, highly readable and spectacularly practical book on community journalism. I cannot say enough good things about it. I'm currently using it in a class for students who are going to create a local news website and they like it, too.

Captures the appropriate view

I got this book because I'm starting up a local newspaper and it's been 30 some odd years since I majored in Journlaism. I found here a lot of what I only dimmly remembered, but which underscored what I believed about the feasibility of starting my paper. I also can see that it would be a good read for anyone nostalgic for the simpler days of newspapering.