Understanding Journalism provides an indispensable guide through the processes and decisions required to produce quality journalism. Starting from Ẁhat is news?' and moving on to consider decisions about public interest, accuracy and reliability of sources, and ethics, this book provides a model for practice centering on developing skills in critical self-reflection. It will help answer the question of Ẁhere to begin?' - examining the processes used by journalists to define, identify, evaluate and create journalism. Understanding Journalism offers a guide to:. Finding news - exploring the na.