Vocational Studies in Journalism / Robert F. Harrel, Walter B. Pitkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitkin, Walter B., author.

Harrel, Robert F., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1931]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents data from a survey of one hundred and seventy-three newspaper employees and two hundred and ninety-one journalism students on issues such as editorial judgement and the journalism profession.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part I. Editorial Judgment by Walter B. Pitkin

I. Prelude

II. The Appraisal of News

III. How Local Interest Influences Judgments of News Value

IV. News Values as Revealed in a First-Page Make-Up

V. How Journalists Appraise Rumors

VI. Intercorrelations Between Various Standardized Non-Journalistic Tests

VII. Conclusions

Part II. Factors Making for Success in Journalism - A Study of the Careers of Five Hundred Successful Journalists by Robert Frank Barrel

I. Introduction

II. The Origin of the American Journalist

III. Entrance into the Profession

IV. The Course Upward

V. Education of the Journalist

VI. Evidences of Maladjustment

VII. The Future Journalist

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89931-9

OCLC:

1100441402