Imagine a hard-working college history professor John Brayne alone in his study at home late at night He is hunched over his desk pushing his way through a pile of sophomore three-page papers on the Civil War depressed because five out of the 20 failed to hand their papers in and three tr

The first step in teaching moral values to young journalists is to get them to feel pain—not their pain, the pain of others. From that, other virtues—compassion, skepticism, courage and the like—might follow. But virtue is getting harder to teach. Last spring two news stories force