If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. A journalist for more than 20 years, Tom Rosenstiel designedand directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism. He alsoserves as vice chairman of the Committee of ConcernedJournalists, an initiative engaged in conducting a nationalconversation among journalists about standards and values.A former media critic for the Los Angeles Times and chiefcongressional correspondent for Newsweek magazine, he alsois the editor and principal author of PEJ's Annual Report on theState of the News Media, a comprehensive report on the healthof American journalism. Rosenstiel is co-author of the CCJ'sTraveling Curriculum, an ongoing education program that hastrained more than 6,000 journalists in print, TV, and onlinenewsrooms. His books include The Elements of Journalism:What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect,with Bill Kovach. He is a frequent commentator on radio andtelevision and in print.