News media and journalism Books

Book SynopsisThis book offers a deep and comprehensive overview of constructive journalism, setting out the guiding principles and practices for a journalism that aims to do more than simply inform about problems.In this authoritative yet concise volume, Peter Bro asks what does constructive journalism mean, what are the underlying principles, how is it practiced, and in what ways does it differ from other types of journalism? Drawing on studies of the rapidly growing number of works by both journalism practitioners and researchers, the book reaches beyond these questions to show how the notion of being constructive has been a part of journalism from the very beginning of the profession.This introduction to what constructive journalism is and was and what it can accomplish will guide new journalists; journalism, media, and mass communication students; and scholars working on journalistic theory and practice.Table of Contents1. Introduction to constructive journalism 2. Principles of constructive journalism 3. Precedents of constructive journalism 4. Practices of constructive journalism 5. Conclusion

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In this textbook, social media professor Jeremy Harris Lipschultz introduces students to the study of social media law and ethics, integrating legal concepts and ethical theories.This second edition explores freedom of expression, as it applies to students, media industry professionals, content creators and audience members. Key issues and practices covered include copyright law, data privacy, defamation, global law and ethics, generative AI, government censorship, social media platform rules, and employer policies. The book also addresses the U.S. government TikTok law and other recent regulation. Research techniques are also used to suggest future trends in social media law and ethics. Touching on themes and topics of significant contemporary relevance, this accessible textbook can be used in standalone law and ethics courses, as well as emerging social media courses that are disrupting traditional public relations, advertising, marketing and journalism curricula.Case studies, discussion questions, and online resources help students engage with the practicalities, complexities and ambiguities of this future-oriented area of media law, making this an ideal textbook for students of media law, policy and ethics, mass media, and communication studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics. It situates these cultural encounters in historical and contemporary contexts and through the critical lens of the Global South. It identifies a rising Global South consciousness, despite lingering historical entanglements and emotional ambivalences that continue to characterise Africa-China relations.Bringing together scholars from various disciplines and from different parts of the world, this book examines a wide range of cultural expressions such as arts, literature, translated works, traditional and digital media artefacts and services, and film festivals. It also interrogates emerging cultural interactions, experiences and practices engendered by the increasingly digitalised information and communication technology infrastructure underpinning Africa-China connections and links. In doing so, the book contributes to a more nuanced understanding of Africa-China relations today and the concept of the Global South.

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Book SynopsisSince the emergence of social media in the journalistic landscape, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. Using empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC, this book shows that the emergence of social media at the BBC and the need to manage this kind of material led to a new media logic in which tech-savvy journalists take on a new centrality in the newsroom. In this changed context, the politico-economic and socio-cultural logic have led to a more connected newsroom involving this new breed of journalists and BBC audience. This examination of news production events shows that in the midst of transformations in journalistic practices and norms, including newsgathering, sourcing, distribution and impartiality, the BBC has reasserted its authority as a public broadcaster. Click here for a short video about the Trade Review"Valerie Belair-Gagnon has provided a ground-breaking analysis of the impact of social media on the practice of journalism. Her book’s examination of the BBC offers a compelling look at how a global leader in journalism is adapting to the age of connected citizens." - John Pavlik, Rutgers University, USA"This book offers an important analysis of the practical and ethical issues for a global broadcaster embracing social media. It brings to life the opportunities and dilemmas for a traditional news organisation adapting to the open, collaborative digital age." - Richard Sambrook, Cardiff University (Former Director, BBC Global News)"Valerie Belair-Gagnon's work on the BBC offers the defining work on the world's premeire public broadcast institution as it attempts to reckon with the rise of user generated content. The text offers a fascinating detailing of the tensions between the institution's standards for accuracy and the new demands and perhaps uncertainty of verification for social media. Through intensive fieldwork, scholars and journalists alike should find an essential tale full of lessons from a formidable institution adapting to the social media age." - Nikki Usher, George Washington University, USA and author of Making News at The New York Times"While BBC News is a unique institution in its size and scope, Belair-Gagnon's account of the organization's adaptation to social media will be of interest not only to BBC watchers, media historians and researchers but also to journalists seeking to compare, understand and advance change in their own newsrooms. Overall it offers a well-informed analysis of how a famed journalistic powerhouse got to grips with a more open, networked and digital era, learning important lessons about itself and its audience along the way." - Rachel Nixon, former Senior Director of Digital Media for CBC News and Editor-in-chief of MSN News and Sports (US)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. ‘Auntie’ Takes on Social Media 2. Tweet or be Sacked! 3. A New Order 4. New Structures, New Actors in the Newsrooms 5. The Connected Newsroom Conclusion: Global Crises, Local Responses

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Book SynopsisThe British Media Industries offers an accessible introduction to how the media in Britain operates and the impact that recent political, economic, and technological developments have had on the nature of media industries today.Split into two parts, this book starts by exploring approaches to understanding contemporary media industries through political, economic, and technological terms. The second part delves further into issues and practices relating to individual media industries including newspapers, magazines, film, television, music, video games, and social media. The book adopts a political economy approach and is designed to engage students in an accessible way with key issues around the ownership and control of different sectors of the British media; UK and EU government regulation of the media, including content regulation and market/economic regulation; and the corporate strategies employed by leading media players, such as the BBC, Netflix, Google, and ATable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Understanding the Media Industries. 1.Technology. 2.Economies. 3.Politics. Part II: Media Industries. 4.National Newspapers. 5.Magazines. 6.Film. 7.Radio. 8.Television. 9.Music. 10.Videogames. 11.Social Media.

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Book SynopsisWriting Feature Articles presents clear and engaging advice for students and young professionals on working as a freelance feature writer. This fifth edition not only covers producing content for print, but also for digital platforms and online.Mary Hogarth offers comprehensive guidance on every aspect of feature writing, from having the initial idea and conducting market and subject research, to choosing the right target audience and publishing platform and successfully pitching the article. In addition, the book instructs students on developing their own journalistic style and effectively structuring their feature. Each chapter then concludes with an action plan to help students put what they have read into practice.Topics include: Life as a freelance Building a professional profile Telling a story with images Developing a specialism Interviewing skillsTrade ReviewA rich resource, full of gold-plated advice for any budding feature writer. It covers everything you need to know – getting ideas, finding the right audience, pitching, researching and structuring an article and is packed with anecdotes and case studies from successful working journalists. Invaluable not just for would-be feature writers but experienced freelancers. Dr Barbara Rowlands, Associate Professor of Journalism and Hon Research Fellow, City, University of London This a welcome and timely update of Brendan Hennessy’s classic Writing Feature Articles. Offering useful examples, insightful interviews and helpful calls to action it is for anyone who aspires to be a journalist in our fast-moving digital age. Journalism educator Catherine Darby, creator and leader of the UK’s multi-award-winning first MA in Magazine Journalism, launched at the University of Central Lancashire in 2004. Table of ContentsList of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Foreword, Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Life as a freelance 3. Ideas are everywhere 4. Market research 5. How to pitch successfully 6. Turn ideas into articles 7. Research and interview techniques 8. A cohesive structure 9. How to develop a strong style 10. Images tell a story 11. Copywriting and PR 12. Specialist features, columns and reviews 13. Interviews vs profiles 14. Worldwide markets 15. A career in magazines and newspapers 16. Law and ethics: a rough guide 17. Last word: an editor’s perspective, with Jonathan Telfer, Appendices, References, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of The UK Media Law Pocketbook presents updated and extended practical guidance on everyday legal issues for working journalists and media professionals.This book covers traditional print and broadcast as well as digital multimedia, such as blogging and instant messaging, with clear explanations of new legal cases, legislation and regulation, and new chapters on freedom of information and social media law. Links to seven new online chapters allow readers to access all the most up-to-date laws and guidance around data protection, covering inquests, courts-martial, public inquiries, family courts, local government, and the media law of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Tim Crook critically explores emerging global issues and proposals for reform with concise summaries of recent cases illustrating media law in action, as well as tips on pitfalls to avoid.The UK Media Law Pocketbook is a key reference for journalists and media wTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Media contempt and reporting crime 2. Guide to court reporting – key facts and checklist 3. Libel, privacy, accuracy and balance 4. News gathering, story finding and public interest 5. Protecting children 6. Copyright and intellectual property 7. Laws and rules for elections and politics 8. The secret world 9. Scottish and Northern Irish differences and issues 10. Freedom of Information 11. Social Media Law 12. Further online chapters

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Book SynopsisInvestigative Reporting provides a step-by-step approach for tackling any investigative story, teaching reporters the skills they need to overcome common obstacles during investigative work. Experienced reporter and instructor, Marcy Burstiner offers readers guidance on how to identify story ideas, craft a premise, seek out human sources and documents, file public records requests, and analyze data. Including tips and advice from student and professional reporters, this comprehensive textbook also offers strategies for conducting interviews and for organizing information into a compelling story or series of stories that engage the reader through multimedia storytelling.Highlights of the new edition include: Updated examples and anatomies of news stories. Extensive discussion of data reporting and analysis for investigative projects. Guidance on how to request public records using state public records acts and how to aTable of ContentsPart I: Getting Started Chapter 1: What is Investigative Reporting? Chapter 2: Finding the Story Chapter 3: Set Up the Investigation Part II: Gathering Information Chapter 4: Finding Human Sources Chapter 5: Document the Investigation Chapter 6: Public Records Chapter 7: The Interview Process Chapter 8: Finding and Using Data Chapter 9: Build Your Own Database Part III: Writing and Publishing the Story Chapter 10: Analyze a Big Story Chapter 11: Writing the Story Chapter 12: Legal and Ethical Considerations Chapter 13: Bulletproof the Investigation Chapter 14: Pitching the Story Appendix

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Book SynopsisJournalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water. Most of us come up for air eventually, but if you're like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen, you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and question lists left something important out: you!Journalism is people managing, wrestling truth and story out of the messy, confusing raw material that is a human being, and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves. So it's time to talk about it. Instead of nervously skirting the sizable EQ (emotional intelligence) portion of this IQ (intelligence intelligence) enterprise, Soft Skills for the New Journalist explores how it FEELS to do this strange, hard, amazing joband how to use those feelings to better your work and yourself.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: Welcome and congratulations! You’ve chosen wellChapter 1: A is for AttitudeChapter 2: I went to college with an electric typewriter, and other cautionary talesChapter 3: Finally we get to the important stuffChapter 4: So something shiny caught your eyeChapter 5: Working on your pitch (not the sports kind, sorry)Chapter 6: Editors have the worst ideasChapter 7: Hi, stranger! The in-person approachChapter 8: Can’t I just email???Chapter 9: The shy person’s guide to not dying inside while on assignmentsChapter 10: Not everyone is going to like you (unreasonable but true)Chapter 11: All about sourcesChapter 12: Take a flying (imaginative) leapChapter 13: The all-important nutgrafChapter 14: So … I’m supposed to say what to this person?Chapter 15: OK! Finally! Interviewing!Chapter 16: Journalism magic—it’s a thing!Chapter 17: Or maybe just shut up for a minuteChapter 18: Don’t rush off to lunch just yetChapter 19: Yes, you still need a notebook Chapter 20: Don’t be a banker Chapter 21: Get in shapeChapter 22: To outline or not to outlineChapter 23: "I hate writing; I love having written."—Dorothy Parker Chapter 24: But also … try this to love writing a little moreChapter 25: Get your crap together Chapter 26: How to tell when you’re doneChapter 27: A word about grammarChapter 28: Developing a journalist’s conscience Chapter 29: The day afterChapter 30: Speaking of what other people think …Chapter 31: You did it! You’re done!Chapter 32: WWNBD? (What would Nellie Bly do?)Chapter 33: Keep your head in the gameChapter 34: I believe in you! Goodbye!

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Book SynopsisThis volume draws together research originally presented at the 2015 Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, UK. The conference theme, Risks, Threats and Opportunities,' highlighted five areas of particular concern for discussion and debate.The first of these areas, Journalism and Social Media', explores how journalism and the role of the journalist are being redefined in the digital age of social networking, crowd-sourcing and big data', and how the influence of media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit affects the gathering, reporting or consumption of news? Journalists at Risk' assesses the key issues surrounding journalists' safety and their right to report, as news organizations and their sources are increasingly targeted in war, conflict or crisis situations. The third area, Journalism Under Surveillance', asks what freedom of the press means in a post-Snowden climate. What are the new forms of censorship confronting journalism tTable of ContentsForeword Introduction – The Future of Journalism: Risks, Threats and Opportunities 1. The New Geography of Journalism Research: Levels and spaces 2. Participatory Maps: Digital cartographies and the new ecology of journalism 3. Giving computers a nose for news: Exploring the limits of story detection and verification 4. Appropriating Social Media: The changing uses of social media among journalists across time 5. Sourcing the BBC’s live online coverage of terror attacks 6. Twitter as a flexible tool: How the job role of the journalist influences tweeting habits 7. The anatomy of leaking in the age of megaleaks: New triggers, old news practices 8. Social News = Journalism Evolution? How the integration of UGC into newswork helps and hinders the role of the journalist 9. "Twitter Just Exploded": Social media as alternative vox pop 10. Who shares what with whom and why? News sharing profiles amongst Flemish news users 11. Making sense of Twitter buzz: The cross-media construction of news stories in election time 12. Letting the Data speak: Role perceptions of data journalists in fostering democratic conversation 13. Towards a New Model for Journalism Education 14. The Future of Professional Photojournalism: Perceptions of risk 15. Unravelling Data Journalism: A study of data journalism practice in British newsrooms 16. Changes in U.S. Journalism: How do journalists think about social media? 17. Are you talking to me? An analysis of journalism conversation on social media 18. Political Journalists’ Interaction Networks: The German Federal Press Conference on Twitter 19. Journalism Under Threat: Intimidation and harassment of Swedish journalists 20. Fake News: The narrative battle over the Ukrainian conflict 21. Gender, Risk and Journalism 22. Intrapreneurial Informants: An emergent role of freelance journalists 23. Mapping changes in local news 24. Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice 25. The New Architecture of Communications 26. Normative Expectations: Employing "communities of practice" models for assessing journalism’s normative claims 27. Valuable Journalism: Measuring news quality from a user’s perspective 28. Folk Theories of Journalism: The many faces of a local newspaper 29. Interacting with Audiences: Journalistic role conceptions, reciprocity, and perceptions about participation 30. Cosmopolitan Journalists? Global journalism in the work and visions of journalists 31. Participation and the Blurring Values of Journalism 32. Core Blighty? How journalists define themselves through metaphor: British Journalism Review 2011-2014 33. What makes a good journalist? Empathy as a central resource in journalistic work practice 34. Camouflaging Church as State: An exploratory study of journalism’s native advertising 35. Embedded Links, Embedded Meanings: Social media commentary and news sharing as mundane media criticism 36. Power to the Virtuous? Civic culture in the changing digital terrain

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Book SynopsisSmartphone Video Storytelling helps readers master the techniques for making compelling short-form video content with a smartphone. With mobile journalism on the rise, it's becoming increasingly important to understand the entire process and potential for conveying stories across multiple platforms. This richly illustrated text provides students with the essential smartphone video reporting skills: From choosing the right editing app to working with interview subjects on camera. The ethics of non-fiction video storytelling are highlighted to reinforce core journalistic principles. The chapters feature mini-tutorials and exercises that introduce the key principles of filmmaking. The student exercises and library of online video lessons introduce the building blocks of visual storytelling using real-world reporting examples. A story-based approach allows instructors to use the experiences of making each project in order to teach the fundamentals of video storytelling in Trade Review"Robb Montgomery is a true mojo-master. Hands-on, easy to read and tested on the terrain, this book is an essential guide to get you started with your smartphone. Packed with hands-on tips and clever hacks, it will make all the difference when you go out in the field to shoot your own stories." Ezra Eeman, Head of Digital, EBU Switzerland"Robb Montgomery’s easy-to-follow instruction can take a journalist from novice to pro in a matter of a few videos. There’s something to learn on every page. Who knew that a pair of sneakers were the only zoom a mobile journalist could ever need?" Katie Wadington, news director, Asheville (N.C.) Citizen Times"Robb does a great job of organizing this book and the important topics related to mobile journalism like framing for vertical video. Additionally, the sample videos, shot in various locations around the world, and exercises will make this text an excellent choice for media educators to use in their courses."Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo, Egypt"An immensely smart and useful guide for the amateur and professional alike (I learned a few things, and I've been shooting professional narratives for almost 20 years). Technology is changing so rapidly these days, it's incredible that you can accomplish so much with the device we all regularly carry around in our pocket. But many people still lack the basic storytelling skills to make a rich and watchable narrative. This book will help people organize their story, compose and shoot like a pro." Erik Olsen, Quartz, USA"500 years ago, Gutenberg’s printing press changed the world.That piece of technology meant that anyone could now publish and share their ideas.Literacy became essential. 10 years ago, another piece of technology did the same - the iPhone.It is the Gutenberg’s printing press of our own digital age, and it does the same- makes it possible for anyone to publish and share their ideas, but in video.Essential to both is literacy. Print literacy for the press, video literacy for the smartphone.Smartphone Video Storytelling is a great way to become ‘video literate’ in a fast and easy to understand way."Michael Rosenblum, Founder - TheVJ.com, USA "This is an essential addition to your toolkit If you have been considering creating videos using your smartphone. Providing practical advice and helpful checklists, whether you are new to mobile video creation, an experienced videographer or a mobile journalist, the guidance provided will help you improve your video content creation." Krishna De, Digital Communications Strategist, www.Krishna.me"As a journalism professor who teaches in an international university I can comfortably say that this book is easy to use for diverse students from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. Using examples from around the world makes readers feel that author is addressing them wherever they are. In addition, the technical instruction is straightforward and to the point and equipment used is readily accessible. To boot, this book with it’s up –to-date techniques can be used for training emerging professionals too. This author is ahead of the curve when it comes to teaching how to create fact-based visual storytelling using simple skills and methods."Dr. Naila Hamdy. Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Graduate Director.The American University in Cairo, Egypt "With a mobile phone, everybody can be a film maker today. With the web and social media apps, everybody can become a broadcaster. Not everybody though has got film making skills and experience, until today. Robb Montgomery shares his best practices in the Smartphone Video Storytelling and he promises to make every one of us a professional film maker. The only part missing now is a story. What’s yours?! "Grzegorz Piechota, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford"When TV was invented 90 years ago we handed control over production to the media and never asked for it back. Now smartphones give everyone the chance to produce high quality stories that look and sound professional. Be video literate! All you need is a phone and this book." John Whyte-Venables, phone video trainer "Smartphone Video Storytelling is not only for the "bookshelf", but an important item worthy of being part of one’s storytelling kit. Readers will learn the foundations of storytelling and then apply the advice and techniques through -practical exercises to help tell better stories. Be prepared to be challenged and motivated." Len Clark, PhD, Irish 101"Smartphone Video Storytelling is an excellent and very practical guide for everybody who wants to start storytelling on a mobile phone; students in media, journalists, and public relations. The book is very well classified in chapters with a fixed format and guides you step by step through the knowledge. Via examples and exercises, you are able to develop the skills you need as mobile storyteller. Because of the structure, the book is very suitable for trainers and lecturers in media and journalism." Rob Freijssen, lecturer in Media and Journalism University of applied Sciences, Trainer In Smartphone Storytelling , and editor in chief"Robb Montgomery’s superb book goes beyond the standard to have at its core that vital element of good journalism: how to tell a story. This, combined with authoritative instruction and practical exercises, delivers precisely what I need my mobile students to know. "Rob Layton, Head of Digital Journalism, Bond University, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Introduction2. A Portrait3. Explainer4. Fast Facts5. Food6. Interviews7. Live Streaming8. Music Video9. 360° VR video10. Nature11. Promotional12. Walkthrough

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Book SynopsisInterviewing for Journalists focuses on the central journalistic skill of how to ask the right questions in the right way. It is a practical and concise guide for all print and online journalists professionals, students and trainees who write news stories and features for newspapers, magazines and online publications. In the age of digital journalism, where computer-based research is easily available, this new edition seeks to emphasise the value of getting out there, engaging with people directly and building relationships to create original and meaningful media content. Interviewing for Journalists highlights the many different approaches to interviewing, from vox pops and press conferences to news interviews and in-depth profiles. This third edition features brand new interviews with some of the most successful journalists in the industry, including Camilla Long of The Sunday Times, Heidi Blake of BuzzFeed UK, Brian Viner of the Trade Review‘Chapters 1–5 are really, really useful. They cover just about every situation you can come across in interviewing. Students enjoy learning all the ways of interpreting expressions, positions, words, and so on, and I can use interviews from the internet to illustrate and get the class to video their own interviews and look out for these things… Interviewing for the internet is far too short and needs updating, and the chapter on note-taking and recording is way out of date… It’s actually the only journalism skills book I ask students to buy.’ Judith Clarke, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, China‘The book is fairly basic, ideal for my first-year students. It sets out the idea of interviewing and goes through various scenarios, telling students not only how to take notes, check quotes etc., but also the personality traits required to do a good interview, such as determination and persistence… It would help to have more first-person scenarios to keep readers’ interest as they read the text, as well as exercises that the reader can do in their own time.’ Wendy Sloane, London Metropolitan, UK Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Communicating and interviewing: the basics (Section 1: How I interview: Camilla Long); Chapter 3: News interviewing (Section 2: How I interview: Justin Davenport); Chapter 4: Planning and preparation (Section 3: How I interview: Sheron Boyle); Chapter 5: The interview itself (Section 4: How I interview: Cole Moreton); Chapter 6: Interviewing techniques (Section 5: How I interview: Susan Grossman); Chapter 7: Vox pops and other interviewing opportunities (Section 6: How I interview: Wendy Holden); Chapter 8: The twenty-first century tools of interviewing (Section 7: How I interview: Brian Viner); Chapter 9: Interviewing by telephone, email, text and Skype (Section 8: How I interview: Heidi Blake); Chapter 10: Interviewing the famous – and infamous (Section 9: How I interview: Stephanie Rafanelli); Chapter 11: How to manage challenging, difficult or sensitive interviews (Section 10: How I interview: Dorothy Lepkowska); Chapter 12: After the interview (Section 11: How I interview: Emma Brockes); Chapter 13: Law and ethics; Recommended books and films; Index

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Book SynopsisThis history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms. Centering on movement through different media, time, and place, it makes the case for a truly comparative, pan-European history of news.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. News Moves; 3. News Sings; 4. News Counts; 5. Conclusion: Future News History.

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Book SynopsisA must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times Insight team is famous for its investigative journalism. This book profiles the major stories – often a result of years of work and painstaking investigation – that ripped away the shrouds of secrecy, revealing the inconvenient truth.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A passionate debut memoir bears witness to political turmoil... A stark, eye-opening, and sometimes horrifying portrait by a reporter enthralled by the 'power and magic' of Africa." -- Kirkus "[Gettleman's] beautifully written memoir is about many kinds of love...The path to love is not always straight, but when Gettleman discovers his true passions, he grabs hold and doesn't let go. Love, Africa offers a key to understanding humankind's past and future and a key to understanding our hearts." -- Sheryl Sandberg "Rarely do you read such beautifully rendered honesty: witness the eyes and heart of Jeffrey transform into a remarkable person and writer for our time." -- Ishmael Beah "Gettleman's memoir of his life, his love, and the excitement and perils of journalism is a page-turner. The portrait of Africa that emerges is disturbing, tender, and harsh. ... A tremendous read. I couldn't put it down." -- Abraham Verghese "Jeffrey Gettleman's memoir is truly, in all its complicated tragic beauty, a love story made up itself of inextricably intertwined love stories. I was mesmerized." -- Alexandra Fuller "To feel the fear, sinfulness, and rapture of being a foreign correspondent, read this book! Using self-lacerating truth and high velocity prose, Jeffrey Gettleman has written a compulsively readable new story about what it means to be 'our man in Africa.'" -- Blaine Harden "Jeffrey Gettleman has true grit. That's why he was in my book, and why you have to read his." -- Angela Duckworth "...[Gettleman] takes readers... into the most terrifying and beguiling continent in the world...Gettleman is a rare combination of dogged reporter and very fine writer...I kept catching myself wondering whether it was too late to go back and lead his life rather than my own ." -- Sebastian Junger "[An] exciting, harrowing memoir that aptly displays why [Gettleman's] a Pulitzer Prize winner and a New York Times bureau chief... there's a thrilling immediacy and attention to detail in Gettleman's writing that puts the reader right beside him...Gettleman's memoir is an absolute must-read." -- Booklist (starred review)

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An affecting, singular story . . . a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." — Kirkus Reviews "Powerful." — People

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Book SynopsisNow in its 12th edition, this core text is the most comprehensive and widely used textbook on editing in journalism. Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate more online and multimedia formats, this hands-on guide offers a detailed overview of the full process of journalistic editing, exploring both the micro aspects of the craft, such as style, spelling and grammar, and macro aspects, including ethics and legality. Recognizing the pronounced global shift toward online multimedia, the authors continue to stress the importance of taking the best techniques learned in print and broadcast editing and applying them to online journalism. This new edition also includes an in-depth discussion of the role editors and journalists can play in recapturing the public's trust in the news media. Additional chapters examine how to edit for maximum visual impact and how to edit across media platforms, teaching students how to create a polished product that is grounded Table of ContentsPreface The Evolution of Editing Journalism’s Credibility Problem The Editing Process Macro Editing for the Big Picture Macro Editing for Legality, Ethics and Propriety Micro Editing for Grammar and Usage Micro Editing for Style, Spelling and Tightening Holistic Editing: Integrating the Macro and Micro Edit Yourself Writing Headlines, Titles, Captions and Blurbs Using Photos, Graphics and Type GlossaryIndex

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Book Synopsis"Smart, knowing, and deeply reported, the definitive history of one of modern American humor’s wellsprings." —Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, host of NPR’s Studio 360Trade Review"This idea of a magazine’s personality kept coming back to me as I read Ellin Stein’s charming and detail-rich new history of the National Lampoon, That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick, because it is not really a history at all, but a portrait. You can’t pick your offspring’s personality, and the way a personality develops on its own, involuntarily, through an array of influences of varying importance and salience, echoes the way the Lampoon personality emerges in the pages of Stein’s book—through a pastiche of eyewitness recollections, some of them contradictory, many of them fascinating, and all accompanied by the author’s breezy running commentary on the cultural storms that swirled in the background." -- The Daily Beast"A worthy addition to the comedy library." -- Michael Precker - Dallas Morning News"Stein’s description…is dazzling." -- Hollywood Reporter"This rich history of humor, commerce, and backstage conflict is recounted in lively prose and admirable detail by veteran entertainment writer Ellin Stein. Buttressed by dozens of original interviews, as well as access to older ones and to all the yellowing back issues, That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick captures neatly the eccentric personalities and fiery times that converged to propel radically offensive material to the forefront of the American consciousness." -- Boston Globe"For one thing, the history of the Lampoon is a good story, and Stein may be the first person to devote so much of a book to it who doesn’t have her own ax to grind." -- A. V. Club"Stein understands not only the value of engaging reportage, but the importance of story. Setting the stage socially and historically, she…follows the Lampoon's many tributaries and side projects without getting too bogged down explicating jokes." -- Matthew Love - Time Out New York"It’s not much of stretch to call this exceedingly thorough and wildly entertaining history of modern American comedy a bible on the subject. Ellin Stein goes deep and dirty on the topic…. A book that will serve as a cultural reference work for the ages. And a blast from the past to read." -- Weekly Standard"Stein offer detailed portraits of the people behind the magazine’s success in a seminal time when politics and comedy intertwined with incendiary results…. A serious treatment of a funny topic." -- Booklist"Stein leaves no tangent unexplained and no petty grievance unaired as she traces the magazine’s evolution and growing fame." -- Publishers Weekly"If you ever picked up an issue of the National Lampoon, or misspent your youth in the sixties and seventies; if you ever wondered about the origins of Saturday Night Live or, in fact, ever had any interest in the course of American humor from the late sixties onward, this is a book to read…. That’s Not Funny takes you on a ride through what was, arguably, the heyday of American humor." -- Ellary Eddy - Realize Magazine

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Book SynopsisWhen a reporter for The New York Times uproots her family to move to West Africa, she manages her new role as breadwinner while finding women cleverly navigating extraordinary circumstances in a forgotten place for much of the Western world.  “A story you will not soon forget.”—Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper’s West Africa bureau chief, an amazing but daunting opportunity to cover a swath of territory encompassing two dozen countries and 500 million people. Landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, she quickly found their lives turned upside

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Book SynopsisFrom the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus ReviewsBeneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California’s deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims

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Book SynopsisAn essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the presentUndaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every me

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Book SynopsisAn NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called one helluva page-turner and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read. Pick up the book everyone is talking about.In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel.For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the Gawker Problem. When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late. The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture?In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory.Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.

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Book SynopsisThe first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power.From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased dangerous assignments her male colleagues wouldn't touch, pioneering a radical style of reporting that focused on the humanity of the oppressed. She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. S

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Book SynopsisSullivan remains the critic American journalism requires, a veteran practitioner with street cred, still in touch with the unaccountable joy' of reporting and writing that continues to draw talented young people to the field. Steve Coll, The New York Times Book ReviewMargaret Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper''s staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues. Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper's controversies, from Hillary Clinton''s emails to Elon Musk''s a

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Book SynopsisThis book is a unique and definitive guide to the skills necessary for on-camera journalism and offers an invaluable behind-the-scenes look at the profession. Tailors the traditional skills of writing, reporting, and producing to the needs of journalists working in front of the camera Includes chapters devoted to the role of the storyteller, reporting the story across multiple platforms, and presenting the story on-camera Incorporates profiles of leading multimedia journalists and public relations practitioners Addresses the key ethical issues for the profession Offers practical advice for putting presentation skills to work Storytelling skills covered can be applied to a variety of traditional and new media formats including television news, radio, and podcasts Trade Review"I highly recommend the information packed and valuable book Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations by Tony Silvia and Terry Anzur, to any journalists, bloggers, public relations practitioners, and business people who are seeking a hands on guide to telling story in a multimedia world. This book will transform your message from a weak and ineffective one, to an authentic and compelling story that is understood readily by the audience." (Blog Business World, 24 September 2011) Table of ContentsAbout the Authors. Foreword by Lester Holt, NBC News/MSNBC. Introduction. 1 The Role of the Storyteller. Profile: Brian Williams, NBC News. Resource: IJPC.org, The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture. 2 Reporting Stories across Media. Profile: Linda Hurtado, WFTS-TV. Profile: Casey Cora, http://oakpark.patch.com. 3 Writing the Story for Print and the Web. Profile: J.R. Raphael, Contributing Editor, PC World. Profile: Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times and tampabay.com. 4 Video Storytelling on the Air and on the Web. Profile: Joe Little, KGTV-TV San Diego. Profile: Jessica Yellin, TV Reporter, CNN. 5 Presenting the Story on Camera, on Air, and Online. Profile: Poppy Harlow, CNNMoney.com. Profile: Owen J. Michael, KABC-TV. 6 Practicing Public Relations in a Multimedia World. Profile: James Lee, Lee Strategy Group. Profile: Ann Kellan, Intermedia Marketing & Production, Atlanta. 7 Ethical Journalism in Multicultural Media. Profile: Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio, www.npr.org. Profile: Frenita Buddy, Hope Channel. 8 Putting Your Skills to Work. Profile: Kris Van Cleave, WJLA-TV. Profile: Lila King, Senior Producer, CNN.com. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis research examines journalism ethics to answer the questions of whether we still need journalism ethics in the twenty-first century, if it is possible to exercise journalistic standards of work and, if so, on what values should these ethics be based in a world much different from that which existed when the first journalism codes of ethics were formulated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To distil the motivations and essence of the early journalistic standards of work, the book discusses the function of media in a democracy and the formation of mass media during the first industrial revolution, as well as its consequential change in journalists’ locus of control and how journalists self-identified. The sudden creation of mass media pushed some journalists to create ethical principles which would guide the newly empowered press, an effort which culminated in the creation of the first national code of journalistic ethics in 1923. The book closely examines the elements of the 1923 “Canons of Journalism”, finding them to contain timeless values, despite their original application to now dated technology. It highlights the basic elements and applies them to media today, in a way that interfaces with new technology without abandoning the essential components of equipping citizens for representative governance.

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Book SynopsisFrom the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketballMade in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA''s March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled by longtime Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, Basketball spans eight decades to bring together a dream team of writers as awe-inspiring and endlessly inventive as the game itself. Here are in-depth profiles of the legends of the hardcourt--Russell, Kareem, Bird, Jordan, and LeBron--and storied franchises such as the Knicks and Celtics, along with dazzling portraits of the flash and sizzle of playground ball and more personal reflections on the game by some of America''s finest writers, among them Donald Hall, John Edgar Wideman, and Pat Conroy. Highlights include James Naismith recalling how he invented the game that would go on to conquer the world; John McPhee capturing the ever-disciplined Bill Bradley as a Princeton Tiger; Peter Goldman''s indelible portrait of the life and death of a Harlem Globetrotter; and Michael Lewis''s account of the brave new world of NBA analytics. Classic journalism about inner-city basketball by Pete Axthelm, Rick Telander, and Darcy Frey is joined by stories of the game''s popularity across America, from the heartland of Hoosier country to an Apache Reservation in Arizona.Cover: Copyright © 1996 by NBAE. Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE/Getty Images.

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Book SynopsisWhen Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve—a trio of professional play-by-play men with a listenership that spanned the country. It was only a matter of time before Kenny, armed with a toy tape recorder, yearned to follow in their footsteps. Some 3,000 broadcasts later, Kenny Albert has amassed countless stories from the world of sports and media. A Mic for All Seasons is his chronicle of a charmed yet unlikely journey, from a youth spent calling games in his bedroom for a fictitious audience to ten-hour bus rides with a minor-league hockey team, plus the time he worked five different sports in one chaotic, 19-day stretch. The only play-by-play broadcaster who currently calls all four major sports in North America, Albert details the stand-out moments from his three-decade career, including the 1994 Stanley Cup Final, Jose Bautista's bat flip in the 2015 ALCS, and the U.S. women’s hockey Olympic gold-medal winning shootout in Pyeongchang in 2018. Part memoir, part behind-the-scenes look at the world of broadcast media, A Mic for All Seasons also features stories about life in the booth, game preparation, travel hijinks, marquee events, meetings with star athletes and coaches, and much more.

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Book SynopsisThe first six Atlantic Editions in a boxed collection. On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerityby Lenika CruzA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom.On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politicsby Megan GarberAn investigation of misinformation and fracturing in contemporary American political culture.On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choiceby Sophie GilbertTwelve incisive, probing essays on womanhood in popular culture.On Grief: Love, Loss, Memory by Jennifer SeniorThe unflinching Pulitzer Prize–winning essay on mourning and recovery in the wake of an inconceivable tragedy.On Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivantingby Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie PlaugicDispatches from the everyday adventures of two regular women in New York.On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity by Derek ThompsonA rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work.Atlantic Editions draw fromThe Atlantic’s rich literary history and robust coverage of the driving cultural and political forces of today. Each book features reported essays by Atlantic writers from the magazine’s 165-year archive.

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever edition of Che Guevara''s letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form.Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book''s title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don''t worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That''s what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father.

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Book SynopsisChe Guevara''s definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition with a new foreword and photos.There is no better account of the Cuban revolutionary war than this little book by guerilla leader Che Guevara. Assembled from his campaign diary, first published in 1963, later corrected and edited by Che, and published here finally in an authoritative edition that includes not only his corrections, but also a number of short essays and articles published just after the revolution''s triumph. As always, Che''s writing is intimate, searching, and self-critical. Having initially joined the Cuban expedition as troop doctor, Che describes his dilemma in having to choose between a backpack of medicines and a box of ammunition (he chose the box of ammunition). In another justly famous chapter of the book, The Murdered Puppy, Che describes how he had to give the order to have a dog killed. Throughout this book, the sweep of history and matters of life and death are rendered in small and intimate ways. 

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Book SynopsisA novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling Ru Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardFinalist of the New Academy Prize in LiteratureFinalist Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner of the Prix du Grand Public—Salon du livre de MontréalWinner of the Governor General''s Literary Award for FictionWinner of the Grand Prix RTL-LireEmma-Jade and Louis are born into the havoc of the Vietnam War. Orphaned, saved and cared for by adults coping with the chaos of Saigon in free-fall, they become children of the Vietnamese diaspora. Em is not a romance in any usual sense of the word, but it is a word whose homonym—aimer, to love—resonates on every page, a book powered by love in the larger sense. A portrait of Vietnamese identity emerges that is wholly remarkable, honed in wartime violence that borders on genocide, and then by the ingenuity, sheer grit and intelligence of Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnamese-Canadians and other Vietnamese former refugees who go on to build some of the most powerful small business empires in the world. Em is a poetic story steeped in history, about those most impacted by the violence and their later accomplishments. In many ways, Em is perhaps Kim Thúy''s most personal book, the one in which she trusts her readers enough to share with them not only the pervasive love she feels but also the rage and the horror at what she and so many other children of the Vietnam War had to live through.Written in Kim Thúy''s trademark style, near to prose poetry, Em reveals her fascination with connection. Through the linked destinies of characters connected by birth and destiny, the novel zigzags between the rubber plantations of Indochina; daily life in Saigon during the war as people find ways to survive and help each other; Operation Babylift, which evacuated thousands of biracial orphans from Saigon in April 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War; and today''s global nail polish and nail salon industry, largely driven by former Vietnamese refugees—and everything in between. Here are human lives shaped both by unspeakable trauma and also the beautiful sacrifices of those who made sure at least some of these children survived.

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Book SynopsisThe year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women's movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are summarily reviled as "libbers." Inette Miller is one year out of college—a reporter for a small-town newspaper. Her boyfriend gets drafted and is issued orders to Vietnam. Within their few remaining days together, Inette marries her US Army private, determined to accompany him to war. There are obstacles. All wives of US military are prohibited in country. With the aid of her newspaper's editor, Miller finagles a one-month work visa and becomes a war reporter. Her newspaper cannot afford life insurance beyond that. After thirty days, she is on her own. As one of the rare woman war correspondents in Vietnam and the only one also married to an Army soldier, Miller's experience was pathbreaking. Girls Don't shines a light on the conflicting motives that drive an ambitious woman of that era and illustrates the schizophrenic struggle between the forces of powerful feminist ideology and the contrarian forces of the world as it was. Girls Don't is the story of what happens when a twenty-three-year-old feminist makes her way into the land of machismo. This is a war story, a love story, and an open-hearted confessional within the burgeoning women's movement, chronicling its demands and its rewards.

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