News around
& about journalism

The Writing Wright. The Writing Wright is a small book that offers a banquet of information, quotations, essays and notes about writing, writers and the writing life. Here you will find out about Ernest Hemingway's attitude toward punctuation, when Tom Clancy found out about submarines, the discipline of Anthony Trollope's writing habits, and what H.L. Mencken thought about being a newspaper reporter.

Richly illustrated by the author, this book is one that you find hard to resist.

And the price makes it an ideal gift for anyone who is interested in writing and the writing life.

Available at:

Amazon, where you can purchase a copy for $10.

Booklocker, where you can download it as an e-book for $9.

And The Writing Wright now has a Facebook page so you can become a fan.

Check out these blog entries. Here are some blog entries you might want to read:
• Alabama vs. Georgia: The '62 game had an important legal impact
(The Writing Wright)
• Excellent photos of a beekeeper (Honey Dot Comb)
• Lady in Red: Bookcover illustration (First Inning Artworks)
• Palin, her emails, her hacker: No secrets (The Writing Wright)

Course sites. The following are the links to the sites for the courses that I am teaching at the University of Tennessee during the spring 2008 term: JEM 200 Introduction to News Writing and JEM 560 Advanced Web Publishing. Students in those courses should bookmark these two pages. For JEM 200 students, possible news quiz questions can be found at the end of the Week 1 lecture notes.

BOOKS for the journalist
and the journalism educator

Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How

James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2005
This introductory text is covered with lively writing, up-to-date examples and an inviting layout that will have students reading, wondering, asking and practicing. Just published by Allyn and Bacon, this text is a must for any journalist's shelf and any journalism teacher's classroom.
Learn more.
Go to the book's web site at Allyn and Bacon.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.
Nice review of JN5W (and full disclosure). My good friend and colleague (that's the full disclosure part) Herb Thompson has written a very kind and complimentary review of the book for SecondaryEnglish.com. Along with it is an interview that Herb conducted with me.

Writing for the Mass Media (6th edition)

James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2006
For more than 20 years, Writing for the Mass Media has been introducing students to all of the basic forms of media writing: the inverted pyramid for print, the drama unity form for broadcasting, summaries and other specialized writing for the web, copy platforms and storyboards for advertising. and news releases and other forms of witing for public relations. Used by more than 350 colleges and universities, this book gives students an excellent introduction to media writing and teachers the convenience of a clear, concise text with ample writing exercises at the end of each chapter.
Learn more.
Go to the book's web site at Allyn and Bacon.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.

Web Journalism: Practice and Promise of a New Medium

James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 2004
How will the web change journalism? And what should you be teaching your students about the future of journalism in this digital age? This book explores those questions and offers some practical answers based on years of experience in the field of journalism. The web bring to journalism qualities present in no other medium: the combination of capacity, immediacy, flexibility, permanence and interactivity. These qualities will have a profound effect on the journalism of the future. Give your students some real insight as to the future of journalism and the way it will be practiced.
Learn more.
Order the book from Amazon (where it is incorrectedly titled Journalism on the Web), Barnes and Noble.

The Complete Editor (2nd edition)

James Glen Stovall and Edward Mullins. Allyn and Bacon, 2006
This basic editing text began its life in the early 1980s as Online Editing, the first text to teach editing from the persepctive of the computer technology that was taking over the field of journalism. Today it has been completely revised to cover not just the developing technology but also to deal with what it means to be an editor in a digital world. The book contains tightly written chapters and exercise material designed to get students into the mindset of being editors.
Learn more on this web site; go to the book's page on the Allyn and Bacon web site.
Order the current edition from Barnes and Noble.

Infographics: A Journalist's Guide

James Glen Stovall. Allyn and Bacon, 1997
This practical guide teaches students what infographics are and how they can be created. It is the only text that delves specifically into the forms of graphics and the kind of information that is appropriate for those forms. The book also discusses the modern development of graphics and the issues that surround them, such as the difficulty in creating them and the ways for journalists to avoid errors in graphics.
Learn more.
Order the book from Amazon, Barnes and Noble.

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