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Book SynopsisJames Rodgers was a Foreign Correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Gaza, working for BBC and Reuters. Since 2012, James has taught Journalism at City, University of London, where he lectures in the History of Journalism, and the Reporting of Armed Conflict.Trade ReviewAssignment Moscow exposes how the Moscow correspondent has had to adapt to multiple manifestations of censorship, or compete with state-run media, the severity of which has ebbed and flowed with changes in regime. * History Today *Rodgers’s narrative rests on an enormous number of articles in Anglo-American media, books by and about journalists, and his own interviews with many Moscow correspondents. * Foreign Affairs Magazine *Rodgers retains his focus on the correspondent’s interactions with Russia and Russians, rather than being sidetracked into discussions of normative values or political controversy. This approach prepares the reader for the conclusion, which celebrates the openness and curiosity of the best Russia correspondents, reminding the reader that what they have just read is a history not of Russia but of how Western correspondents have told Russia’s stories. Differentiating the two is an important and hitherto neglected task but one that James Rodgers has achieved masterfully. * Journalism *Reporting from Russia has never been easy; Rodgers vividly captures the changing fortunes of Moscow correspondents over the past hundred years, as they penetrated the mysteries of life in Russia and brought them to our newspapers and screens. Some were duped, some were fellow-travellers or spies; most battled against censors and blank-faced politicians; all have helped to shape our understanding of the world’s biggest country. * Angus Roxburgh, former Moscow correspondent for the BBC, Sunday Times and Economist *A highly original, engrossing and accessible book, Assignment Moscow stands out among journalistic accounts of Russia for its subtlety, humility and historic scope. It tells the story of British and American journalists who aimed to throw light on Russia from Lenin to Putin, and in the process illuminated the West itself. * Arkady Ostrovsky, Author of The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the age of Fake News, Winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize *[Rodgers'] experience has been wisely distilled in this fair-minded, balanced and perceptive exploration of the problems reporters have faced in trying to report from Russia. * British Journalism Review *Reveals how journalists’ experiences reporting from Russia for the past 100 years mirrors its changing attitude to the West. * The Journalist *The author has made a great contribution to clarify a number of important aspects of Russian history, and his work would be of interest to historians, readers interested in understanding the practice of journalism and journalism students. * International Journal of Russian Studies *Writing about journalism in Russia since the revolution, James Rodgers rightly emphasises that to understand Russia you have to talk to people of all kinds. But he argues that even correspondents who knew the language and the history found it hard to report dispassionately because of official obstruction and their own emotional involvement. * Rodric Braithwaite *It is hard to believe that in the torrent of books published on Russia each year, that one could come along as original and valuable as Assignment Moscow. One comes to appreciate the service of our reporting men and women in Moscow. For all their fallibilities, without their dedication, we wouldn’t have half the understanding of Russia that we have today, imperfect as it will always be. We therefore owe them – and especially Rodgers as journalist, teacher, analyst and cataloguer – a huge debt. * James Nixey, Chatham House *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Foreword by Martin Sixsmith Introduction 1.Sympathies in the Struggle: Reporting Russia in Revolution, 1917 2.‘The press is lying, or does not know’: Russia goes to war with itself 3.From ‘A Wild And Barbarous Country’ via Starvation to Stalinism 4.Believe Everything But The Facts 5.But What A Story Everything Tells Here: The Great Patriotic War 6.Secrets, Censorship, and Cocktails with the Central Committee 7.A Window On The Country: Reporting Reform and Ruin 8.‘Free for all’: the Yeltsin era 9.Becoming Strong Again? 10.Russia: My History Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisM Stanton Evans is the former editor of The Indianapolis News and founding director of the National Journalism Center in Washington DC. The Journalism Center is dedicated to teaching young journalists not only the technical skills of their trade, but a deep understanding of the issues they will be covering.

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Book SynopsisWhy in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the 1970s do the Daily Mail''s TV reviews address serious contemporary themes such as class- and race-relations, whereas forty years later they are largely concerned with celebrities, talent shows, and nostalgia? Why does the Conservative Chancellor in the 2010s mention ''Britain'' so very often, when the Conservative Chancellor in the 1970s scarcely does at all? Covering news stories spanning fort-five years, Michael Toolan explores how wealth inequality has been presented in centre-right British newspapers, focusing on changes in the representation may have helped present-day inequality seem justifiable. Toolan employs corpus linguistic and critical discourse analytic methods to identify changing lexis and verbal patterns and gaps, all of which contribute to the way wealth inequality was represented in each of the decades from the 1970s to the present.Trade Review'Michael Toolan skilfully dissects the language of mainstream media, exemplified by The Times and the Mail … This book is a showcase project for all discourse-oriented interpretive social studies.' Wolfgang Teubert, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPart I. Analysing the Evolving Press Discourse of Contemporary UK Inequality: 1. Increased wealth inequality in the UK; 2. Why does increasing wealth inequality matter?; 3. Facts, discourse, myths; 4. 'Ethical' differentiation; 5. Inequality as 'British' once more; 6. Why The Times and the Daily Mail?; 7. Spreading the word about the new inequality: the news media; 8. Landmarks in the politics of language tradition; 9. Language-oriented critical discourse analysis: a brief survey; 10. Corpus linguistic methods for exploring the ideology in discourse; 11. Theoretical and methodological assumptions of this study; 12. Brief outline of the chapters; 13. Political affiliations; Part II. What's Fair and Unfair in The Times: 14. The language of fairness; 15. Why concentrate on fair and unfair?; 16. The 1971 and 2011 selections of fair and unfair stories; 17. A national lottery; 18. Industrial relations in 1971: strikes and unfair dismissal; 19. Industrial relations in 2011: the burdens of employment law and 'abuse' of tribunals; 20. Mr Marples's manifesto for the control of fair incomes; 21. The squeezed middle and fair pay in 2011; 22. Fair rents, fair housing; 23. Pensions 'reform'; 24. Fair and unfair in other contexts; 25. Conclusions; Part III. Budgets and Burdens, from Barber to Osborne: 26. Introduction; 27. Style and genre differences between Barber 1971 and Osborne 2011; 28. Lexical contrasts; 29. We in Osborne; 30. Fair and help in Osborne; 31. Taxation; 32. The disappearing burden of taxation; 33. Chancellors' metaphors and the stories they tell: ruts and dust versus the march of the makers; 34. The editorial reception of the Barber and Osborne budgets in The Times and the Daily Mail; Part IV. Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, Class and Britain: 35. The TV reviewer as spokesperson of everyday ideology: Peter Black and Christopher Stevens; 36. General topics in Black and Stevens Compared; 37. Methodology; 38. Peter Black on class; 39. Class and other values in Christopher Stevens, 2013; 40. Equal and fair in CS and PB; 41. Coronation Street, sex and race, then and now; 42. Key semantic domains in Black's and Stevens's journalism: a comparative analysis; 43. The meanings of Britain and the British then (in PB) and now (in CS); 44. Conclusion; Part V. Forty-Five Years of Luddite Behaviour: 45. Ned Ludd and Robin Hood; 46. The Luddites; 47. Luddite and Luddites: grammar, meaning, and frequency; 48. Luddite in the early 1970s in The Times: a preliminary survey; 49. Luddite/Luddites used politically in The Times and the Mail during the first Thatcher term; 50. Luddite/s after June 1983; 51. The Miners' Strike of 1984-5; 52. Concluding remarks: the Luddite narrative; Part VI. Forty-Five Years of Robin Hood: 53. Powerful names; 54. Robin Hood in The Times: preliminary profile; 55. Robin Hood in the Daily Mail: preliminary profile; 56. Robin Hood in the 1970s; 57. Grunwick; 58. Robin Hood in Mrs Thatcher's 1980s and John Major's 1990s; 59. Keynes, not Robin Hood; 60. Bishops more progressive than Labour; 61. Gordon Brown as (nearly) Robin Hood: the New Labour years (1997 to 2010); 62. Robin Hood since 2010; 63. Conclusion; Part VII. Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, NOW UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL Readers LOVE Everything is Everything:''Clive Myrie is one heck of an author'' ?????''Well written and thought provoking. One to come back to again'' ?????''Thoughtful, analytical, deeply caring and, at times, very funny'' ?????-----------------As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover and dreamed of becoming a journalist. In this deeply personal memoir, he tells how his family history has influenced his view of the world, introducing us to his Windrush generation parents, a great grandfather who helped build the Panama Canal, and a great uncle who fought in the First World War, later to become a prominent police detective in Jamaica.He reflects on how being black has affected his perspective on issues he''s encountered in thirty years reporting some of the biggest stories oTrade Review'Infinitely more readable than the average journalism memoir, and decidedly more important.' * Sathnam Sanghera, The Times *'Everything is Everything is so engaging. You feel as if he is talking to you, sharing ideas and thoughts, as if you were a friend.' * Yasmin Ahlibai- Brown *

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Book SynopsisThe entertaining and hugely readable autobiography of one of sports journalism's most famous names

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Book SynopsisJournalism: Principles & Practice remains the essential textbook for all students of journalism. With each print copy of the new third edition, students receive 12 months FREE access to the interactive eBook edition offering on-the-go access to a wealth of digital resources including video tutorials from the author himself!

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Book SynopsisJohn Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa''s memoir is etched with candour. His account of two years of internecine warfare at the top of the BBC under the Chairman, ''Dukey'' Hussey will go down as a major contribution to BBC history. His recollections of a hilarious and petty-minded few months as head of a Cambridge college will be read as a case study of the absurdities of academic life; while running the rejected and maligned Barbican Centre, Tusa led its recovery into the major cultural centre that it is today.Trade ReviewA real contribution to British cultural history. -- Brian Morton * THE HERALD *

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Book SynopsisThe autobiography of the great journalist and iconic broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonaldSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Book SynopsisReporting about a federal trial court or appellate court is quite unlike reporting on the other two branches of government. Among the most notable differences are that some legal terms are hard to understand; there are many rules; and federal judges work largely alone. This book provides a guide for journalists on federal courts. It also provides an analytic overview of the professional experiences and qualifications of those individuals who are currently serving as active U.S. circuit court judges; provides a statistical analysis of the time from nomination to confirmation for U.S. circuit and district court nominees from Presidents Reagan to Obama; identifies possible consequences of a protracted confirmation process for circuit and district court nominees; and identifies policy options the Senate might consider to shorten the length of time from nomination to confirmation for lower federal court nominees.

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Book SynopsisThe problems of loaded language in journalism have eroded professional credibility over the years, and yet the journalist has a bounty of empirical and psychological tools to counter disinformation and propaganda by the use of the word alone. What are the best practices for investigative journalists to interview and present information in an emotionally literate manner? How and why is loaded language used, and how can a reporter counter attempts at gaslighting and manipulation? How does the profession reinvent the interview to connect to audiences through multiple literacies? Drawing from studies in the social sciences, this definitive book looks at the primal, emotional, and analytical aspects of words and their neurobiological effect on audiences, as it shows how to avoid loaded language, spin, propaganda, atmosphere, narrative, and sophistry.Table of ContentsA Note About Reading this Book; Preface; The Psychology of Verbal Data; Connotation and Denotation; Loaded Language; Reality and Perception; Propagandistics and Therapeutics; Primal, Emotional, Analytical; Atmosphere, Narrative, Sophistry; The Structure of Questions; The Psychology of Questions; The Structure of Answers; The Psychology of Answers; Leakage and Nonverbals; Countering Media Training; Countering Nudging; Nonverbal Interviewing Techniques; Defensive Interviewing Techniques; Grice Matrices; Constructing an Interview Strategy; Reliability, Validity, Utility; Appendix: Loaded Language Checklist; References.

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Book SynopsisMaori journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand has become a vibrant industry, reporting through print, radio, television and the internet. This book looks at the history of Maori journalism and the elements that make it what it is today. The author examines the way that news values common in English-speaking countries are reinterpreted for a Maori worldview and analyses news stories to show how Maori perspectives are expressed. She also identifies how elements of whaikorero have been refashioned for news and the ways tapu and noa are managed by news teams. A host of well-known reporters share their perspectives on their work. They describe how they got into reporting, and we learn what happens as they gather information and produce their stories. In particular, we see how these journalists balance the demands of journalism and tikanga.

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Book SynopsisNew Media Journalism aims to bring together journalistic experiences and academic understanding of New Media. The book introduces readers to new technologies that are used in the newsrooms and the opportunities the knowledge of such new technologies offers. Journalists need to embrace these new technologies and constantly innovate to connect with their audience in a meaningful way. This book also talks about the challenges faced by journalists while embracing these new technologies. The topics explored in this book are extremely relevant and useful for working journalists as well as teachers and students of journalism. New Media Journalism: Anubhuti Yadav, Cybersecurity in Journalism; Abhay Chawla, Immersive Journalism; Clyde D Souza , Data Journalism; Anubhuti Yadav, Social Media for Journalism; Sonia Bhaskar, Cyber Bullying in Journalism; Parry Aftab, Mobile Journalism; Himanshu Shekhar, Artificial Intelligence in Journalism; Rohit Gandhi, Fake News: Emerging concern; Akhil Ranjan, Open Resources in Journalism; Pawan Koundal, Digital Marketing, Priya Sachdeva.

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Book SynopsisOur most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, we look back at Queen Elizabeth’s most memorable Commonwealth visits.

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Book SynopsisOver the past half century, western democracies have lead efforts to entrench the economic and political values of liberal democracy into the foundations of European and international public order. As this book details, the relationship between the media and the state has been at the heart of those efforts. In that relationship, often framed in constitutional principles, the liberal democratic state has celebrated the liberty to publish information and entertainment content, while also forcefully setting the limits for harmful or offensive expression. It is thus a relationship rooted in the state''s need for security, authority, and legitimacy as much as liberalism''s powerful arguments for economic and political freedom. In Europe, this long running endeavour has yielded a market based, liberal democratic regional order that has profound consequences for media law and policy in the member states. This book examines the economic and human rights aspects of European media law, which is not only comparatively coherent but also increasingly restrictive, rejecting alternatives that are well within the traditions of liberalism. Parallel efforts in the international sphere have been markedly less successful. In international media law, the division between trade and human rights remains largely unabridged and, in the latter field, liberal democratic concepts of free speech are influential but rarely decisive. In the international sphere states are moreover quick to assert their rights to autonomy. Nonetheless, the current communications revolution has overturned fundamental assumptions about the media and the state around the world, eroding the boundaries between domestic and foreign media as well as mass and personal communication. European and International Media Law sets legal and policy developments in the context of this fast changing, globalized media and communications sector.Table of ContentsPART I: MEDIA LAW AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY ; 1. The New Media and the New State ; 2. The Media and the Liberal Democratic State ; 3. Liberal Democracy and the Media in European and International Law ; PART II: THE MEDIA IN EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL REGIMES ; 4. The Media in the European Single Market ; 5. International Trade in Media Goods and Services ; 6. The Media in European and International Human Rights Law ; 7. Jurisdiction and the Media ; PART III: RESTRICTING THE LIBERTY TO PUBLISH ; 8. Criticism of the State and Incitement to Violence ; 9. Access to State Information ; 10. Information Privacy and Reputation ; 11. Protection of Personal Data ; 12. Pornography and Violence ; 13. Incitement to Hatred ; PART IV: INTERVENTION IN MEDIA MARKETS ; 14. Democracy, Pluralism, and the Media ; 15. Cultural Policy and the Entertainment Media

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Book SynopsisDavid Machin is Professor of Media and Communication at Örebro University, Sweden. He writes and researches mainly on critical discourse analysis and multimodality and has published ten books across these areas. His recent books include How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis: A Multimodal Approach (2012) and Analysing Popular Music (2010). He is the co-editor of two international peer reviewed journals, Social Semiotics and Journal of Language and Politics, and is associate editor of the online community SemiotiX. Lydia Polzer is a freelance magazine designer, journalist and photojournalist. She also presents lectures on magazine design, layout and production for journalism post- and undergraduates at Brunel University and has lectured at City University in the past. She's a winner of the UNESCO and The Independent World Press Freedom Award (2007) and winner of the public choice Deeper Perspective (UK) category of the International Photography Awards (2007). She regularly attends designTrade Review"An essential guide for students interested in today's challenging visual media landscape. This superb book presents the necessary tools to learn about the stages of production and packaging in visual media." - Shahira Fahmy, School of Journalism, University of Arizona, USA "A concise introduction to meanings made within all visual elements used to tell news and stories in today's converging media environment." - Louise Grayson, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Photojournalism: Documenting and Symbolising Events 2. Magazine Design: Ideas and Attitudes Through Visual Elements 3. Changing Newspaper Designs for New Kinds of Markets 4. Design and the Digital Media Environment 5. Staging the News for Television Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisGlamorous "Vogue" magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful style-maker in the world. She influences designers, wholesalers, and retailers globally. Based on interviews, this biography chronicles the insecure and creative climb of this powerhouse to the top of the bitchy, competitive fashion magazine world.

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Book SynopsisThis first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years.Table of ContentsForeword by Stanley Trachtenberg Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Library Location Codes Magazine Profiles Brief Listings Additional Magazines A. Copyright Listings of Humor Magazines by Bonnie F. Sloane B. Unverified Data: Magazines Identified and Described, but Not Examined Genre Essays College Humor Magazines by George A. Test Scholarly Humor Magazines by George A. Test and Don Nilson Humor in American Almanacs by Robert Secor Chronological List of Humor Magazines

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Book SynopsisA memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men's fashionIn this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongsideand closely observingthe media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia's top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to P

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Book SynopsisGlobal Entertainment Media offers a unique perspective on entertainment media worldwide. As one of the first comprehensive books to address entertainment mass media worldwide, it addresses students as TV watchers and takes them to new places, both geographically and intellectually. Editor Anne Cooper-Chen has gathered an international group of scholars to explore such concepts as psychology, gratifications, and effects of media entertainment and its relation to national cultures, as well as to discuss the business of international TV trade by transnational media corporations.In this volume, experts discuss the content, audiences, and cultural and legal aspects of their respective countries, all of which are major TV markets. The country-specific chapters draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors. Contributions represent every hemisphere of the globe, offering detailed examinations of media entertainment in United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Japan, China, Brazil, and Mexico. The two concluding chapters provide cross-national case studies that look at familiar TV experiences--The Olympics and the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire show--in global and novel ways.Global Entertainment Media is intended for students in international media, comparative media, cross-cultural communication, and television studies, and it also has much to offer scholars and researchers in entertainment media.Trade Review"...very rich set of data...interesting and informative volume."—Communication Research Trends"...a text that is representative of a diversity of national media. 'Global Entertainment Media' maybe useful for students in international media, comparative media, cross-cultural communication, and television studies....it does serve as a useful, descriptive primer for undergraduates seeking comparative information about entertainment television."—Journal of Popular CultureTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Part I: Introduction.A. Cooper-Chen, The World of Television. R.A. Gershon, The Transnationals. Part II: Regions.Europe:J. Griffin, The United Kingdom. K. Forster, T. Knieper, Germany. Africa/Middle East:R.D. Berenger, K. Labidi, Egypt. A.A. Olorunnisola, T.M. Akanni, Nigeria. L. Cowling, South Africa. Asia:S. Rao, India. T. Kanayama, T. Kanayama, Japan. H. Cheng, China. Latin America:R. Coeli da Silviera e Silva, Brazil. G. Orozco, Mexico. Part III: Cross-National Case Studies.A. Moretti, The Olympics. A. Cooper-Chen, A World of "Millionaires": Global, Local, and "Glocal" TV Game Shows.

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