Abstract

The State of Journalism

The article presents information about several books relating to press. "The Newspaper and Authority," by Lucy Maynard Salmon. "The Ethics of Journalism," by Nelson Antrim Crawford. "Memoirs of an Editor," by Edward P. Mitchell. "Forty Years in Newspaperdom," by Milton A. McRae. So great is the output of books relating to the press and its shining lights that one begins to wonder if a sudden self-consciousness has not overtaken the profession which in late years has been subject to such severe criticism. Of the books, two are contributions of great merit, indispensable to all who would make a thoroughgoing study of the press and its ethics. Professor Salmon's "The Newspaper and Authority" is a companion-piece to her "The Newspaper and the Historian," and like it presents a mass of information collected by tireless industry and discriminating scholarship, it ought to become a textbook wherever students of journalism gather.