This is a rare and important document I couldn’t find anywhere online. A friend of mine who was at CBS in DC for many years found this typed copy in his old files, and let me scan it into a PDF. It’s one version of what some have called one of the “essential documents” of writing, along with the Magna Carta and the First Amendment. – Doug Cumming
CBS News Standards, 1976
CBS News Standards 1976
About Doug Cumming
Doug Cumming is an associate professor emeritus of journalism at Washington & Lee University with 26 years experience at metro newspapers and magazines. After getting a Ph.D. at UNC-Chapel Hill in mass communications, he taught multimedia reporting and feature writing at Loyola University-New Orleans and at W&L in Virginia. Earlier, he worked at the newspapers in Raleigh, Providence and Atlanta; was editor of the Sunday Magazine in Providence; and helped launch Southpoint monthly magazine in Atlanta. He won a George Polk Award and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
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