ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on only the most common terms of textual analysis that is used by journalists. Lambeth established the Civic Journalism Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and guided the university's Columbia Missourian newspaper staff through a civic journalism project that became known as 'Faith in Our Community'. Mahoney and Fishlock used textual analysis to help strengthen individual journalist's writing skills by offering models to identify, describe, and evaluate various types of news writing. Miller and Dewar used textual analysis of complex government documents to uncover important issues clouded by legalese. Textual analysis offers benefits through identifying, describing, and evaluating various genres of journalism as shown by the civic journalism project in Missouri. That textual analysis revealed that a purposive sample of journalism students could identify public journalism texts by language attributes. Lambeth frames the civic journalism debate as a battle between the news of record, inverted-pyramid journalists versus the narrative, storytelling journalists.
