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Kovach, Bill was born on September 16, 1932 in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John and Olga (Sicos) Kovach.
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This work sets out the fundamental questions that all journalists face as they compile their stories. Is journalism's first obligation the truth? How should journalists exercise their personal conscience? Must its practitioners maintain their independence from those they cover?
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised PaperbackBill Kovach (Author) Tom Rosenstiel (Author)
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Did the coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal set a new low for American journalism? How has news gathering and reporting changed, and what effects has this had on the political and cultural landscape? In this insightful and thoughtful book, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, two of America's leading press watchers, explore the new culture of news--what they call the new Mixed Media Culture--and show how it works. Warp Speed describes a world of news in which the speed of delivery is reducing the time for verification, sources are gaining more leverage over the news, and argument is overwhelming reporting. The press, forced to adhere to the demands of the bottom line and keep its audience, is straining more and more to find the Big Story to package as a form of entertainment, turning news stories into TV dramas; and turning history into a kind of Truman Show. As a result, the role of the press in a self-governing society is undermined. Grounded in extensive research, Warp Speed is informed by interviews and testimony from the principal journalists who covered this story and who covered the other great scandals of Washington politics. It offers detailed recommendations on how journalists can right their ship, such as using anonymous sources more responsibly and turning good journalism into good business.
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Revised and updated with a new preface and material on the rise of social media, the challenges facing printed news, and how journalism can fulfill its purpose in the digital age. Seventeen years ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America’s most influential newspeople to ask the question, “What is journalism for?” Through exhaustive research, surveys, interviews, and public forums, they identified the essential elements that define journalism and its role in our society. The result is this, one of the most important books on the media ever written, and winner of the Goldsmith Book Award from Harvard, the Society of Professional Journalists award, and the Bart Richards Award from Penn State University. Updated with new material covering the rise of social media, sponsored content, a new, collaborative web-based journalism in which anyone—professional or citizen—can produce news, and much more, this third edition of The Elements of Journalism is an essential read for journalists, students, and anyone hoping to stay informed in the digital age.
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Kovach, Bill was born on September 16, 1932 in Greeneville, Tennessee, United States. Son of John and Olga (Sicos) Kovach.
Bachelor of Science, East Tennessee State University, 1959. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Colby College, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Boston University, 2007.
Born in 1932 in East Tennessee of Albanian parents, Kovach planned after college to go to graduate school in marine biology. After four years in the United States. Navy, a summer job at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Johnson City, Tennessee persuaded him to go into journalism. Kovach covered the civil rights movement, politics and Appalachian poverty for the Nashville Tennessean from 1960 to 1967.
In 1965, he was involved in a fight for public access to the legislature, when he refused to leave a committee hearing following a call for executive session.
The state senate passed a resolution revoking his floor privileges. The Tennessean and editor John Seigenthaler, Senior led a successful fight to open the legislative chambers.
After Kovach spent a year at Stanford University on a journalism fellowship, Scotty Reston of The New York Times Washington bureau hired Kovach in 1968, and Kovach spent 18 years there, including serving as its Washington bureau chief He retired from Harvard in 2001 and returned to Washington, where he is senior counselor to the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Kovac is the North American representative and chair of the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) Advisory Committee.
He also serves on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism.
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Advisory board The Committee to Protect Journalists. Member of advisory board Russian-American Press & Information Center With United States Navy, 1951-1955. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Married Lynne Marie Stamm, January 11, 1956. Children: Teresa, David, Charles, John.