“The Elements of Journalism” by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel: “It’s not necessarily how to do journalism. It’s more of the why behind the philosophy. And it has a phrase that I use all the time when I’m teaching: ‘Journalism is a practice of verification.’ What we’re doing in journalism is verifying all the information that we report on as being true, and we are responsible for what we produce.” “The Elements of Style” by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White: “A classic book. Just kind of how to write directly and clearly. There’s a whole quote in there about omitting words that I use all the time.” “Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey: “This is an amazing instructional book on investigative journalism. It's written in a teaching way. You can learn from them. It goes through the kind of decisions that they made and why they made them. And then at the end, which I think is the most valuable part, they have an annotated article. They took th…