Provide[s] a roadmap for maintaining a steady course through our messy media landscape... Readers gain the analytical skills necessary for understanding this new terrain.

Publishers Weekly

Impassioned and practical... It argues persuasively for the virtues of traditional journalism without in any way resisting the sweeping changes the Internet has brought to the profession. It's hard to imagine a more urgently necessary task, for journalism and for democratic societies, than the one Kovach and Rosenstiel have taken on.

Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia School of Journalism

This is one of the most important books of the year... A sobering but even handed analysis that should be valuable to all of us in journalism and the citizens we serve.

Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent

"If I had $1 million I would buy a copy of this book for every high school senior in America... [It] might be the most important book they will read in their lives-the one that will help them evaluate everything else they read.

David M. Shribman, executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette