New York Journalism Course

WJI READER CHECKLIST

This list is for your own use, to keep track of what you have read.

WJI ARTICLES:

  "The Inheritance" by Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, May 2009

  "The Coming Evangelical Collapse" by Michael Spencer, Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 2009

  "Host" by David Foster Wallace, The Atlantic, April 2005

  "Evangelicals are in the news, but not in the newsrooms" by Rose French, Associated Press, October 20, 2008

 "Ex-Journalists’ New Jobs Fuel Debate on Favoritism" by Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, February 3, 2009
 

  "The Idiot Culture" by Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992

  "What Evangelical Media" by Mark Noll, Books & Culture, May/June 2003

  "The State of Journalism in America" by Morgan N. Knull, Campus, Spring 1996

  "The Art of Agenda Setting" by Bob Giles, The World & I, May 2001

  "The American Media in Wartime" by Brit Hume, Imprimis, 2003

  "The Passivity of American Christians" by Harold O. J. Brown, Christianity Today, 1976

  "Fibbers: The Lies Journalists Tell" by Katherine Dunn, The New Republic, June 21, 1993

  "Casual: The Misfits" by Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, Aug. 24, 1998

  "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell

  "The Origins of the Liberal-Conservative Debate in American Journalism" by Michael R. Smith

  "The Jesus War" by Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker, Sept. 15, 2003

  "When the Front Page Meets the Big Screen" by Mark Bowden, The Atlantic Monthly, March 2004

  "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain

  "The Religious Right and the Pagan Press" by Laurence I. Barrett, Columbia Journalism Review, July/Aug. 1993

  "Why I Believe in God" by Cornelius Van Til

  "Notebook: The Wrath of the Lamb" by Lewis H. Lapham, Harpers, May 2005

  "Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters" by Chris Hedges, Harpers, May 2005

  "Soldiers of Christ" by Jeff Sharlet, Harpers, May 2005

  "Stations of the Cross" by Mariah Blake, Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2005

  "The Opening of the Evangelical Mind" by Alan Wolfe, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2000

  "The Evangelical Mind Today" by Mark Noll, First Things, October 2004

  "Who Is John Stott?" by David Brooks, The New York Times, November 30, 2004

  The New Journalism, Part One by Tom Wolfe

  The New New Journalism, Introduction by Robert S. Boynton

  "Christianity, the Brand" by Strawberry Saroyan, The New York Times, April 16, 2006

  "Containing the Christian Right" by Jeff Sharlet, TheRevealer.org, April 17, 2006

  "Genocide in Slow Motion" by Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Review of Books, Vol. 53, No. 2, Feb. 9, 2006

  "The Left Hand of God," pp. 6-9, Michael Lerner (Harper, San Francisco, 2006)

  "Earning a Second Look: The New Christian Internationalism," BreakPoint with Charles Colson, July 17, 2002

  Case in Point (Robert Case's blog, including articles and essays of interest to Christians in journalism)

Cultural Elites: The Next Unreached People Group by Eric Metaxas (Fermi Shorts)

 "Un-American" by Michael Massing, Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2009

WJI MONOGRAPHS:

Robert R. Drake, "Speaking the Truth Without Mentioning God" (1998)
Carl F. H. Henry, "Journalistic Truth in a Postmodern Age" (1999)
John McCandlish Phillips, "Faith in the Daily News Chase" (2001)
Russell Chandler, "The Power of Words in an Age of Image" (2002)
David Aikman, "The Three Callings of a Christian in Journalism" (2002)
Laura Greanias, "News, Truth and Entertainment" (2003)
Larry Woiwode, "The Ethics of Writing" (2003)
Bryan Chapell, "A Christian Journalism" (2004)
Marvin Olasky, "Journalism & Humility" (2005)
Karima Haynes, "A Cord of Three Strands: The Distinct Role of the African-American Christian Journalist" (2005)
Mark Bergin, "Royal Brougham: Your Old Neighbor" (2005)
Benjamin Hoak, "Watson Spoelstra: Player, Writer, Visionary" (2006)
John W. Fountain, "Mightier Than the Sword: The Ministry of Journalism" (2006)
Joel Belz, "Shades of Secularism" (2007)
Herbert & Mira Lowe, "Heart & Soul: Love, Faith and Journalism" (2007)
Rafael Olmeda, "10 Qualities of a Good Journalist (And 5 non-sequiturs)" (2007)
Joe Torres, "God's Ambassador" (2007)
Robert A. Case II, "The Marks of a Journalist of Faith" (2008)
Robert A. Case II, "Samuel Eli Cornish: The Christian Journalist"
Robert A. Case II, "Marks of a Good Story" (2008)
Robert A. Case II, "The Role of the Christian Journalist" (2009)