Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York.
This brief article discusses how public journalism's principles and practices are portrayed in 30 English-language journalism reporting textbooks. It shows, among other issues, that the authors fail to properly assess the merits of public journalism's principles and describe public journalism's practices primarily in terms of a handful of its earliest and most well-known newsroom practitioners in the United States. The article concludes by summarizing how public journalism is depicted, and by offering suggestions to how future authors of journalism reporting textbooks could more accurately describe public journalism.
