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Cambridge University Press Undercover
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Cambridge University Press Networks of Reception in the EighteenthCentury British Press and Laurence Sterne
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HarperCollins Publishers The Sunday Times Investigates Reporting That Made
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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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Love Africa A Memoir of Romance War and Survival
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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HarperCollins Citizen Reporters
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Saved
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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University of Chicago Press Maps with the News The Development of American
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
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The University of Chicago Press Maps with the News The Development of American
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. The text traces the use of maps in American news reporting from the 18th century to the 1980s, and explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
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Mariner Books Final Draft
Book SynopsisA career-spanning selection of the legendary reporter David Carr’s writing for the New York Times, Washington City Paper, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, and more. Throughout his 25-year career, David Carr was noted for his sharp and fearless observations, his uncanny sense of fairness and justice, and his remarkable compassion and wit. His writing was informed both by his own hardships as an addict and his intense love of the journalist’s craft. His range—from media politics to national politics, from rock ‘n’ roll celebrities to the unknown civil servants who make our daily lives function—was broad and often timeless. Edited by his widow, Jill Rooney Carr, and with an introduction by one of the many journalists David Carr mentored, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Final Draft is a singular event in the world of writing news, an art increasingly endangered in these troubled times.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Editing
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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WW Norton & Co Thats Not Funny Thats Sick The National Lampoon
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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Random House USA Inc In Pursuit of Disobedient Women A Memoir of Love
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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The University of Michigan Press The Media Players
Book SynopsisBuilds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare’s theatre in the news culture of early modern England. In an analysis that combines historical research with recent developments in public sphere theory, Stephen Wittek argues that the unique discursive space created by commercial theatre helped to foster the conceptual framework that made news possible.
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The University of Michigan Press African Print Cultures
Book SynopsisFeatures the work of new and well-established scholars on the diversity and heterogeneity of African newspapers published from 1880 to the present. The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper production at different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developing a set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to social historians and literary scholars.
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Random House USA Inc Serious Face
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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Alfred A. Knopf Undaunted
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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Penguin Putnam Inc Conspiracy Peter Thiel Hulk Hogan Gawker and the
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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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Operation Drvar A Facsimile of Official
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Northwestern University Press The Environment and the Press From Adventure
Book SynopsisOffers a history of environmental journalism which looks at how the practice defines issues and sets the public agenda. This book includes the works of authors such as Pliny the Elder, John Muir, and Rachel Carson.
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Northwestern University Press Journalism and Truth Strange Bedfellows Medill
Book SynopsisLooking at how journalism has changed over time, this book explores how the long-standing and untrustworthy conventions developed. It examines why reliable standards of objectivity and accuracy are critical not just to a free press but to the democratic society it informs and serves. It offers an account of how journalism and truth work.
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University of Missouri Press Boxing the Kangaroo
Book SynopsisIn this memoir, Robert J. Donovan shares many events that highlighted his stellar journalistic career. As an investigative reporter during five presidential elections, Donovan has had many insider experiences. This memoir humanizes each of the five presidents he reported on.
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University of Missouri Press A Journalism of Humanity
Book SynopsisIt might seem unlikely that a midwestern university located far from national media centers would be home to the world's first journalism school, but the University of Missouri holds that distinction. This work covers - and uncovers - the many-faceted history of its School of Journalism. It also reveals the School's flaws as well as its virtues.
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University of Missouri Press Journalism 1908
Book SynopsisDescribes how the news media in the United States were fundamentally changed by the creation of academic departments and schools of journalism, by the founding of the National Press Club, and by developments that included early newsreels, the introduction of halftones to print, and even changes in newspaper design.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Emerging Journalism Professionalism and Modernity by Betty Houchin Winfield; The Scene in 1908; 1908: A Very Political Year for the Press by Betty Houchin Winfield; From Whiskey Ads to the Reverend Jellyfish: Media Law in 1908 by Sandra Davidson; Modernization Journalism Comes of Age; Community Journalism: A Continuous Objective by William Howard Taft; Press Clubs Champion Journalism Education by Stephen Banning; Philosophy at Work: Ideas Made a Difference by Hans Ibold and Lee Wilkins; Institutional Rumblings and Change; Power, Irony, and Contradictions Education and the News Business by Fred Blevens; The Age of ""Glory and Risk"": The Advertising Industry; Finds Its Worth by Caryl Cooper; Journalism's Extended Family; Work in Progress Labor and the Press in 1908 by Bonnie Brennen; Good Women and Bad Girls: Women and Journalism in 1908 by Martine H. Beasley; General Assignment Plus; Sports Journalism and the New American Character of Energy and Leisure by Tracy Everbach ; Enter Stage Right Critics Flex Their Muscles in the Heyday of the Performances by Scott Fosdick; 1908: The Beginnings of Globalization of Journalism Education by John C. Merrill and Hans Ibold; The Look of 1908 Newspaper Design Status at a Turning Point in Journalism by Lori England Wegman; Journalism's Concurent Voices; Reform Consumes Social Tumult on the Pages of Progressive Era Magazines by Janice Hume; Foreign Voices Yearning to Breathe Free: The Early Twentieth-Century Immigrant Press in the United States by Berkley Hudson; Forced to the Margins: The Early Twentieth-Century African American Press by Earnest Perry and Aimee Edmondson; Conclusion; 1908: The Aftermath by Betty Houchin Winfield.
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University of Missouri Press The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism
Book SynopsisExamines several narratives involving religion's historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven Christian daily newspaper; and the ways in which religion pressured the press to become a moral agent.Trade ReviewThis may be a book about history, but its concerns are remarkably contemporary. Its central concern is the struggle for journalism that is both trustworthy and important, a concern that resonates with today’s society that urgently needs credible news reporting but that distrusts media more than ever. It should become essential reading for those who want to understand media criticism in the United States."" - John Ferré, University of Louisville; co-author of Good News: Social Ethics and the Press""Mainstream press and mainstream church: two institutions often seen as being past their prime, losing audiences, scrambling to stay solvent, and trying to remain relevant. Ronald R. Rodgers examines how these two opinion leaders tangled as America entered the era of mass consumption of goods and ideas, setting the stage for our information-rich but wisdom-poor society.“Rodgers’s book is aptly named. More than a century ago, the debates about the role and soul of the press focused on whether it should give what people need or what they want—a question fascinatingly addressed in miniature when the a clergyman took control of the Topeka Capital for one week in 1900. This bread-vs.-circuses debate animates the discussion about what seems to be our soul-less public life in the twenty-first century, making Rodgers’s book a truly fascinating prologue to our present."" - Michael Sweeney, author of The Military and the Press: An Uneasy Truce""Ronald Rodgers brings a strong background to this book: more than twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor, an intellectual curiosity about the past, and a proven track record as an astute historian. In studying journalism’s mission and conduct over a ninety-year period in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he closely examines criticism of how the press sustained itself and identified 'its role and responsibility.' Using both the regular press and the religious press, and focusing on the ethics of journalism, he argues convincingly that looking at the period under study can lead to a better understanding of journalism’s role in society today. This approach breaks significant new ground in a highly interesting book."" - Patrick S. Washburn, Professor Emeritus, Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
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Michigan State University Press The Guardian The History of South Africas
Book SynopsisA history of the Guardian, South Africa's anti-apartheid newspaper, that tells the story of a political publication that not only reported events but also helped to shape them.
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St Martin's Press First to the Front
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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St Martin's Press Newsroom Confidential
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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Power Performance
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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Barcharts, Inc AP Associated Press Style Guide
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing Journalism Standards of Work Today: Using History
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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Sage Publications Inc Public Relations Theory
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Sage Publications, Inc Mass Communication: Living in a Media World
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University of Arkansas Press The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat: An
Book SynopsisThe Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat collects over one hundred interviews with employees of the Democrat, including editors, report- ers, feature writers, cartoonists, circulation managers, business manag- ers, salespeople, pressroom managers, typesetters, and others, from the 1930s through the early 1990s, when the Democrat took over the Arkansas Gazette after an aggressive newspaper war.This new addition to Arkansas journalism history provides vivid details about what it was like to work at the old Democrat. August Engel, who led the paper with focused devotion for forty-two years, was famous for his thrift, allowing no air conditioning in the newsroom, and paying sub-par wages. In spite of these conditions, there are tales here of dedi- cated journalism professionals endeavoring to do good work.Readers who remember the final acrimony between the two papers may be surprised to learn that for many years the Democrat and the Gazette owners operated under a tacit agreement of civility. The papers didn’t hire each other’s staff, for example, and when a fire broke out in the Gazette pressroom, Democrat management offered the use of its press. Staffers recall that when the Gazette struggled with an advertising boycott and reduced circulation during the Little Rock Central High cri- sis because of its perceived progressive editorial stance, which infuriated many Arkansans, the Democrat did less than it might have to capitalize.The eventual newspaper war saw the end of any semblance of civil- ity when the Democrat hired an aggressive and infamous managing edi- tor named John Robert Starr who began giving away classified ads, print- ing more news, and changing publication from evening to morning.Through these firsthand stories of those who lived it, The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat tells the story of how the number-two paper became the unlikely number one, forever changing not only Arkansas journalism but also Arkansas history.
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University of Massachusetts Press A History of American Literary Journalism: The
Book SynopsisThis study examines the roots of the distinctive form of writing known as journalism - whether called literary journalism or creative non-fiction - and argues that within America it can be traced at least as far back as the late-19th century.
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The Library of America Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game: A
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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University of Massachusetts Press The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic
Book SynopsisIn The Wired City, Dan Kennedy tells the story of the New Haven Independent, a nonprofit community website in Connecticut that is at the leading edge of reinventing local journalism. Through close attention to city government, schools, and neighborhoods, and through an ongoing conversation with its readers, the Independent's small staff of journalists has created a promising model of how to provide members of the public with the information they need in a self-governing society.Although the Independent is the principal subject of The Wired City, Kennedy examines a number of other online news projects as well, including nonprofit organizations such as Voice of San Diego and the Connecticut Mirror and for-profit ventures such as the Batavian, Baristanet, and CT News Junkie. Where legacy media such as major city newspapers are cutting back on coverage, entrepreneurs are now moving in to fill at least some of the vacuum.The Wired City includes the perspectives of journalists, activists, and civic leaders who are actively re-envisioning how journalism can be meaningful in a hyperconnected age of abundant news sources. Kennedy provides deeper context by analyzing the decline of the newspaper industry in recent years and, in the case of those sites choosing such a path, the uneasy relationship between nonprofit status and the First Amendment.At a time of pessimism over the future of journalism, The Wired City offers hope. What Kennedy documents is not the death of journalism but rather the uncertain and sometimes painful early stages of rebirth.
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Triumph Books A Mic for All Seasons
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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Zando Atlantic Editions 1–6 Boxed Set
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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Seven Stories Press,U.S. The Bolivian Diary
Book SynopsisThe last diary of revolutionary Che Guevara with entries up until two days before his murder.This new edition of Che Guevara''s diary of the last year of his life describes Che''s efforts to launch a guerrilla insurrection against the military government of Bolivia. It was found in his backpack when he was captured by the Bolivian Army in October 1967.This edition includes Fidel Castro''s "A Necessary Introduction," exposing the lies of an earlier, pre-emptive edition prepared by the C.I.A. to discredit Che and the Bolivian expedition, as well as the Cuban Revolution itself.The Bolivian Diary reveals an older, more time-tested, and health-compromised Che than either the exuberant The Motorcycle Diaries or the mature and implacable Congo Diary. There is rich irony here as he recounts the daily challenges faced by his small guerrilla band, the pronouncements of the military government, and the actions of the large military force attacking them. The last entry describes the day before Che''s capture, two days before his murder.
£16.96
Seven Stories Press,U.S. I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor:
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.
£26.25
Not Stated Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
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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Seven Stories Press,U.S. Em: A Novel
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.
£17.56
Seven Stories Press,U.S. I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor:
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC 17 minutos: Entrevista con el dictador / 17
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Texas Tech Press,U.S. Girls Don't: A Woman's War in Vietnam
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.
£28.01
Sourcebooks, Inc The Brainwashing of My Dad: How the Rise of the
Book SynopsisAfter her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again…Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America.Over the course of a few years, Jen's dad went from a nonpolitical, open-minded Democrat to a radical, angry, and intolerant right-wing devotee who became a stranger to those closest to him. As politics began to take precedence over everything else in her father's life, Jen was mystified. What happened to her dad? Was there anything she could do to help? And, most importantly, would he ever be his lovable self again? Jen began the search for answers, and found them... as well stories from countless other families like her own.Based on the award-winning documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy. Jen's story shows us how Fox News and other ultra-conservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world, and encourages us to fight back.Trade Review""[Affecting]...liberals will have their worst suspicions about the right-wing mediasphere confirmed." - Publishers Weekly" - Publishers Weekly"Jen's story is brilliant and gives us all insight about what we can do when lying right-wing media seize the minds of our friends and family." - Thom Hartmann, New York Times bestselling author and progressive talk show host"The Brainwashing of My Dad is a pure delight—breezy to read while telling a compelling personal and big-picture story. The evolution of Jen Senko's dad from playful dad to crusty conservative and then back again is the lens through which she reveals the last 40 years of rightwing media propaganda. But while Senko details the corrosive grip that characters like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have had on our society, she inspires us with the redemption of her father and the superb suggestions to counter the spread of right-wing extremism. Read it and act!" - Medea Benjamin, author, activist, and cofounder of CODEPINK
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Transworld Murray Walker Incredible
Book SynopsisMaurice Hamilton (Author) Maurice Hamilton has been covering Formula 1 as a freelance journalist since 1977. He has attended more than 450 Grands Prix, including every race since 1984. The author of 19 books, Hamilton also commentates on the Grands Prix for BBC Radio 5 Live.
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The Liffey Press And Finally…: A Journalist's Life in 250 Stories
Book SynopsisBy any account Paddy Murray has had a remarkable life. From meeting entertainment and sports celebrities like John Wayne, Pele, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Richard Harris, Elton John, George Harrison, Eric Cantona and Eddie Irvine, to reporting on Ireland’s heroic loss in the World Cup at Italia ’90, to writing about Irish political scandals, tragedies, heinous crimes and much more over 40 years in the Evening Herald, Irish Daily Star, Sunday World and The Sunday Tribune, Paddy has seen it all. Along the way, Paddy managed to write gags for the Two Ronnies, performed comedy in front of a live audience, erected a plaque commemorating The Beatles’ only Irish performance at the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin, battled with Lymphoma for over 20 years and became a father at 50+. Looking back on a colourful life while now struggling with more health challenges - Stage 4 COPD - Paddy is adamant that the highs far outweigh the lows, that his marriage to Connie and the love of his daughter Charlotte make every painful treatment worthwhile. So come along on an entertaining journey recalling one journalist’s extraordinary life in 250 stories!
£15.95
