Super Short Summary

The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel serves as a comprehensive guide for journalists and citizens, emphasizing the ten core principles of good journalism. These include the paramount obligation to truth, loyalty to citizens, verification of facts and sources, independence from power, monitoring power, providing a platform for public debate, storytelling with relevance, maintaining proportionality, exercising personal conscience, and recognizing the responsibilities of citizens as journalists to combat misinformation in the digital age.