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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

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We Interrupt This Newscast: How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too

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A landmark study on what people watch and why. The most exhaustive study ever of local TV news -- what helps ratings, what drives viewers away, and what editorial approaches and story-telling techniques most influence viewership.

Including Children's Voices

Deborah Potter, Executive Director, NewsLab, July 30, 2006

From CCJ partner NewsLab.

It's often said that one of our missions as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless. But if you look at the stories we produce, you won't often hear those voices. For instance, a lot of stories about children or about children's issues are told by adults. Have you noticed that the voices you hear in those stories are the voices of bureaucrats, officials, reporters, sometimes parents, rarely kids?

NewsLab offers the following suggestions for including the voices of children in your stories.

Seek Children Out

Find Their Level

Write to Sound

Tread Gently

Click here for details on NewsLab.org.

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