title: Living Journalism: Principles & Practices for an Essential Profession
author:  Rich Martin 
description: <i>"Living Journalism</i> will allow teachers to encourage their students to reach for the very best in craft and ethics while keeping them grounded in the realities of a tough job. . . . It s a book that encourages students to reach for the best within themselves." --Andrew Cline, Missouri State University<br /><br />"This is a lovely book, wonderfully affirming for both working and aspiring journalists, written well and appropriate for a college-age audience in tone and treatment. It is full of timely and pointed examples of good journalists at work. I found it a pleasure to read." --Brian Richardson, Washington &amp; Lee University<br /><br />"Martin's book offers sixteen chapters of information, hints, and ideas on many essential aspects of the journalistic enterprise--from how to nurture your curiosity and ask good questions to the importance of being accurate and admitting mistakes when they occur. . . . Young journalists of all stripes who are serious about making a difference and exemplifying the best professional standards will find a great deal of inspiration from Martin's ideas, a great deal of encouragement from his hopeful tone." --From a review in the June 2012 issue of <i>Journalism &amp; Mass Communication Editor</i><br /><br />"Martin's book offers sixteen chapters of information, hints, and ideas on many essential aspects of the journalistic enterprise--from how to nurture your curiosity and ask good questions to the importance of being accurate and admitting mistakes when they occur. . . . Young journalists of all stripes who are serious about making a difference and exemplifying the best professional standards will find a great deal of inspiration from Martin's ideas, a great deal of encouragement from his hopeful tone." --From a review in the June 2012 issue of <i>Journalism &amp; Mass Communication Editor.
  						    	
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zlib_text: THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING
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  THE REPORTER WHO
  MADE HIMSELF KING
  
  THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING
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  The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one
  who works his way up.  He holds that the only way to start is as a
  printer's devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate
  from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down
  speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a
  fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the
  greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains.
  That is the old time journalist's idea of it.  That is the way he was
  trained, and that is why at the age of sixty he is still a reporter.  If you
  train up a youth in this way, he will go into reporting with too full a
  knowledge of the newspaper business, with no illusions concerning it, and
  with no ignorant enthusiasms, but with a keen and justifiable impression
  that he is not paid