• Skip to content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to footer

Peter Copeland

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog Posts
  • All Books
  • She Went to War: The Rhonda Cornum Story
  • Reviews and Awards
  • The Finding the News Book Tour
  • Photo Gallery

Interview: Foreign Press Correspondents USA

March 11, 2022 by Peter Copeland

Three core values of quality journalism: speed, accuracy, and fairness

 

Excerpt from the October 25, 2021 interview:

“Throughout your career, you trained hundreds of young reporters and college interns. How can aspiring journalists set a solid foundation for a successful career? What are the principles they ought to follow? 

After I wrote the first draft of my book about learning to be a reporter, I went back over the manuscript to make note of the specific lessons about journalism I had learned from each experience. I counted about 200 different lessons, which was far too many to list. So, I boiled that down to about 20 lessons, which still seemed like a lot. I finally decided on three principles or core values of quality journalism: speed, accuracy, and fairness…”

Read the full interview on ForeignPress.org

Peter Copeland is a former foreign correspondent and Washington bureau chief. His most recent book is Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter.

Recent Posts

  • Interview: Foreign Press Correspondents USA
  • She Went to War Book Release Announcement
  • In Maria Hinojosa’s New Memoir, Once I Was You, A Journalist Covers Her Own Story   
  • Book Review: The Whistleblower, the Reporter, and the Life-and-Death Consequences of Exposing Secrets
  • Finding the News wins first place in the memoir category of The Eric Hoffer Book Awards for 2020

Filed Under: Blog Posts

Peter Copeland Journalist and Author

Peter Copeland Journalist and Author

Reader Interactions

Footer

site map

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog Posts
  • All Books

Contact

If you would like to get in touch, please email me directly at peter@mediapmc.com.

Follow

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Copyright © 2023 · Author Pro on Genesis Framework · Log in