Two W's of Journalism The Why and What of Public Affairs Reporting

Davis "Buzz" Merritt was a reporter and editor for Knight Newspapers and Knight Ridder Inc. for 43 years, retiring after 23 years as editor of The Wichita Eagle. Since leaving The Eagle, he has taught media ethics and a seminar on journalism and democracy at the University of Kansas and Wichita State University, consulted with news organizations and written articles, newspaper columns, and books Maxwell McCombs, who is internationally recognized for his research on the agenda-setting role of mass communication, holds the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin and is a professor on the associated faculty of Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. Prior to joining the Texas faculty, McCombs was the John Ben Snow Professor of Research at Syracuse University and also served simultaneously for 10 years as director of the News Research Center of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. McCombs has been on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and U.C.L.A. and a reporter for the New Orleans Times-PicayuneMerritt, Davis is the author of 'Two W's of Journalism The Why and What of Public Affairs Reporting', published 2003 under ISBN 9780805847314 and ISBN 0805847316.