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G. Michael Killenberg is professor and founding director of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at USF St. Petersburg, a Program of Distinction at the university.

He joined USF in 1988 after 15 years at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he was director of graduate studies in mass communications. In his professional career, he has been a reporter and editor for weekly and daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

His publications have focused on media law, community reporting and ethics in news interviewing. He is the author of Public Affairs Reporting: Covering the News in the Information Age (1992), and co-author of Before the Story: Interviewing and Communication Skills for Journalists (1989); The Conversation of Journalism: Community, Communication and News (1994); and Interviewing: Speaking, Listening and Learning for Professional Life (1999). In 1998, he received the USF Professorial Excellence award.

Chapter 1 The Roles and Realities of Reporting
Chapter 2 The Ways and Means of Reporting
Chapter 3 Striving for Accuracy
Chapter 4 Closed Meetings, Sealed Records and 'Off Limits' Signs
Chapter 5 The Neighborhood Approach
Chapter 6 Government News for the People
Chapter 7 Public Safety: Crimes to Corrections
Chapter 8 Into the Legal Maze
Chapter 9 The Trial and Thereafter
Chapter 10 Special Beats, New Challenges
Chapter 11 Lessons in Law and Ethics