The Canon
Writers must first be readers. Reading the classics of our craft is the best way to master it. Selected recommendations of journalist excellence and works by our writing team are listed below for your consideration.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Bird by Bird
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
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On Writing
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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft
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Rules for Writers
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Stolen Words: Forays Into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism
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Story Craft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
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The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on the Wall Street Journal Guide
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The Art of Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and Other Great Columnists
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The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well
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The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America’s Greatest Writing Teacher
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The Paris Review Interviews, I
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Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction – From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
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Associated Press Guide to News Writing: The Resource for Professional Journalists
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Elements of Grammar
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Good writing: An informal manual of style
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Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong In Print—And How to Avoid Them
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The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation
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The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
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The Elements of Style
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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
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Words Into Type
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Advanced Reporting: Essential Skills for 21st Century Journalism
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Bad News and Good Judgement: A Guide to Reporting on Sensitive Issues in a Small-Town Newspaper
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Best Newspaper Writing
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Follow the Story: How To Write Successful Nonfiction
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Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism
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Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life
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Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How
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Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft
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Reporting for Journalists
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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide from the Neiman Foundation at Harvard University
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The Elements of Journalism
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The “New” New Journalism: Conversations with Nonfiction Writers About Their Craft
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Writing and Reporting News
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Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work
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A Citizen’s Guide on Using The Freedom of Information Act and The Privacy Act
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Get the Facts on Anyone, 3rd Edition
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How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, A Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything
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Investigative Journalism: Proven Strategies for Reporting the Story
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Investigative Reporter’s Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques
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Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America
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Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism That Changed the World
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The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records
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The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher
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Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money
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Writer for Hire: 101 Secrets to Freelance Success
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30 Seconds to Air: A Field Reporter’s Guide to Live Television Reporting
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Broadcast News Handbook: Writing, Reporting & Producing in a Converging Media World
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Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound
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Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
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Sundays at Eight: 25 Years of Stories from CSPAN’s Q & A and BookNotes
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This Business of Television
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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
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Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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Online Journalism: Principles and Practices of News for the Web
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The Complete Guide to Article Writing: How to Write Successful Articles for Online and Print Markets
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The Revolution Will Be Digitized
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WordPress for Dummies, 5th Edition
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
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The Data Journalism Handbook
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The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication
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All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News
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At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf
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Citizen Hearst
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Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation’s Journalism
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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media
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Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge
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Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism
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Success Story: The life and times of S. S. McClure
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The Associated Press Stylebook 2014
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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The Creation of the Media
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The Death and Life of American Journalism
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The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times
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The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent
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The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
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Three Blind Mice
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What are Journalists For?
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1001 Afternoons in Chicago
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
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A Writer’s Life
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All The President’s Men
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume I
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An Intimate History of Humanity
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Are We Rome?
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Danse Macabre
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Den of Thieves
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Desert Solitaire
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Dispatches
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Division Street
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Emus Loose in Engar: Big Stories from Small Towns
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
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For the Record
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Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir
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Friday Night Lights
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Genius
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H.L. Mencken’s Smart Set Criticism
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Hiroshima
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Homage to Catalonia
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How the Good Guys Finally Won
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If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade: An Essential Memoir of a Lunatic Decade
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In Cold Blood
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Lincoln
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Lords of Finance
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Newspaper Days: Mencken’s Autobiography
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Open Letters: Selective Writings, 1965-1990
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Point of Departure
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
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Pulitzer Prize Feature Stories: America’s Best Writing, 1979-2003
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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
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Roughing It
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
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The Age of the Avant-Garde
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The Berlin Diary
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The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, Volume II: My Country Right or Left
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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, Volume II
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The Devil’s Highway
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The Emperor
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, Volume III
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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The John McPhee Reader
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The Journalist and the Murderer
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The Laramie Project
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The Promised Land
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The Right Stuff
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The Rings of Saturn
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The Soloist
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The Song of the Dodo
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The Strategic President
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The Unconquerable World
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The Vintage Mencken
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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There Are No Children Here
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Tides of Consent
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Twilight
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Understanding Comics
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families