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Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life
William F. Woo
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Description for Letters from the Editor: Lessons on Journalism and Life
Paperback. A collection of essays that aims to distill the essence of the values that define independent journalism. This work reflects on journalism as a public trust, requiring the publication of stories that give readers a better understanding of society and equip them to change it for the better. Editor(s): Meyer, Philip. Num Pages: 216 pages, index. BIC Classification: BGBA; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
William F. Woo, born in China, was the first person outside the Pulitzer family to edit the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" and the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. After forty years in the newsroom, Woo embarked on a second career in 1996 teaching journalism at Stanford University, where he wrote weekly informal essays to his students in the same personal style that characterized his columns for the ""Post-Dispatch"". Each made a philosophical point about journalism and society and their delicate relationship over the last half of the twentieth century. Woo was revered as both a writer and ... Read more
William F. Woo, born in China, was the first person outside the Pulitzer family to edit the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" and the first Asian American to edit a major American newspaper. After forty years in the newsroom, Woo embarked on a second career in 1996 teaching journalism at Stanford University, where he wrote weekly informal essays to his students in the same personal style that characterized his columns for the ""Post-Dispatch"". Each made a philosophical point about journalism and society and their delicate relationship over the last half of the twentieth century. Woo was revered as both a writer and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217554
SKU
V9780826217554
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About William F. Woo
William F. Woo (1936-2006) was the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Journalism at Stanford University. Philip Meyer is Knight Chair and Professor of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or coeditor of a number of books, including The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Assessing Public Journalism, both available ... Read more
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