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Letters from the Editor - Lessons on Journalism and Life (Paperback)
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Letters from the Editor - Lessons on Journalism and Life (Paperback)
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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 a reporter, and this volume
collects some of the best of those essays to the next generation of
journalists on their craft's high purpose. As inspiration for
students from someone who knew the ropes, it distills the essence
of the values that define independent journalism while offering
them invaluable food for thought about their future professions.
The essays touch on a wide range of subjects. Woo 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. He also ponders print journalism
conducted in the face of broadcast and online competition along
with the transformation of newspapers from privately owned to
publicly traded companies. Here too are personal reflections on the
Pulitzer family's impact on journalism and on the tensions between
a journalist's personal and professional life, as well as the
conflicts posed by political advocacy versus free speech or a
reporter's expertise versus a newspaper's credibility. Woo's
idealistic spirit conveys the virtues of his era's newspaper
journalism to the next generation of journalists - and most likely
to the next generation of news media as well. Even as new students
of journalism have an eye on an electronic future, Woo's essays
come straight from a newsman's heart and soul to remind them of
values worth preserving.
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