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(More customer reviews)This book truly lives up to it's subtitle "Lessons on Journalism and Life." So you need not be directly involved in public journalism to appreciate it.
However, Bill, my close friend of over 50 years, would call me to task on that. He would claim (as a chapter in his book does claim) that any American who cherishes the first amendment to the Constitution is in fact "directly involved in public journalism," and is moreover in part responsible for its health and future.
Professor Woo's prose rolls out seemingly without effort. Large sections of the book will pass your eyes and brain at a single sitting, and you're at its end before you know it. At that point, you, as I, will no doubt be happy with the experience, sorry it's over, and furious that Bill is no longer with us to discuss parts of it with.
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Woo 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 teaching journalism at Stanford. This volume collects some of the best informal weekly essays he wrote to his students on their craft s high purpose. Among the wide-ranging topics are reflections on journalism as a public trust and print journalism conducted in the face of broadcast and online competition. Also included are personal reflections on the Pulitzer family s impact on journalism, the tensions between a journalist s personal and professional life, and the conflicts posed by political advocacy vs. free speech or a reporter s expertise vs. a newspaper s credibility. Woo s essays come straight from a newsman s heart and soul to remind new students of journalism of values worth preserving.
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