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Book SynopsisOn Company Time tells the story of American modernism from inside the offices and on the pages of the most successful and stylish magazines of the twentieth century. Donal Harris draws out the profound institutional, economic, and aesthetic affiliations between modernism and American magazine culture.Trade ReviewOn Company Time alters forever an old story about literary modernism by showing that writers did not just take a paycheck from the big magazines. This rich and substantial consideration of the complex relations between major writers and mass-market publications shows how several modern styles were developed in collaboration by the magazines and the writers they employed. Donal Harris's account of this collaboration expands our notions of what American writing is and changes the history of how it came to be. -- Michael North, author of Novelty: A History of the NewWriting in response to both classic and recent scholarship that represents modernism as an insulated coterie endeavor, Harris convincingly and compellingly establishes that modernist authors were engaged with and appeared in mainstream magazines from the start. On Company Time enriches and expands our understanding of the dialectic between modernism and mass culture, revealing that what has frequently been seen as an antagonistic relationship was really a close collaboration that determined both the career arcs of major modernist authors and the design of mainstream magazines. Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, On Company Time is an eminent example of the new modernist studies. -- Loren Glass, author of Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-GardeHarris's fascinating On Company Time is the book we have been waiting for to help us think through the significance of the commercially popular 'big magazines' that dominated the print-cultural landscape of modernity. Guiding us through magazine offices and showing us print technologies, publishing strategies, and periodical styles along the way, Harris deftly traces the mutual influence of modernism and the commercial magazines. Compelling, imaginative, and entertaining, this book provides an exhilarating new view of modern print culture. -- Barbara Green, University of Notre Dame, coeditor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies Drawing our attention to a set of major institutions that have until now remained hidden in plain sight of recent cultural history, On Company Time makes an extraordinarily rich and persuasive contribution to the study of American literary modernism. It is also a work of relentlessly lively intelligence and writerly charm. -- Mark McGurl, author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative WritingA welcome addition to the fields of periodical and New Modernist studies, particularly in its consideration of modernism’s vexed relationship with the mainstream. . . . Lucidly written and ambitious. * Journal of American Studies *Highly recommended. * Choice *Literary critics and magazine scholars alike should find merit in On Company Time. Scholars passionate about the history of magazine media will appreciate Harris’s research and relish details relevant to the development of the industry. -- Catherine Staub * Journal of Magazine Media *A nuanced and provocative study. . . . On Company Time offers new perspectives on some of the twentieth century’s most important writers and their relationship with some of the period’s most storied publications. * J-History *Donal Harris delivers an exceptionally thought out book that highlights the complexities that have shaped our modern magazine system. -- Brittany Fuller * Publishing Research Quarterly *On Company Time illuminates the intersections between American literature and journalism in the decades that witnessed the professionalization of both fields. * American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Making Modernism Big1. Willa Cather's Promiscuous Fiction2. Printing the Color Line in The Crisis3. On the Clock: Rewriting Literary Work at Time Inc.4. Our Eliot: Mass Modernism and the American Century5. Hemingway's Disappearing StyleAfterword: Working from HomeNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis year’s Best American Magazine Writing features outstanding writing on contentious issues including incarceration, policing, sexual assault, labor, technology, and environmental catastrophe.Trade ReviewA real gift for readers... If you can't read 'em all--and you can't--read this instead. Sacramento News & ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Roger Hodge, national editor, The Intercept Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors Fixing the System: An Interview with President Obama on Prison Reform, by Shane Smith, Vice, Finalist-Single-Topic Issue What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This, by Paul Ford, Bloomberg Businessweek, Winner-Single-Topic Issue The New American Slavery and "All You Americans Are Fired", by Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine, BuzzFeed News, Winner-Public Interest "Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad", by Meaghan Winter, Cosmopolitan, Finalist-Public Interest "My Nurses Are Dead, and I Don't Know If I'm Already Infected", by Joshua Hammer, Matter, Winner-Reporting Purgatory, by Luke Mogelson, New York Times Magazine, Finalist-Reporting The Really Big One, by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, Winner-Feature Writing An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, Finalist-Feature Writing A Visit to the Sweat Lodge and Santa Muerte, Full of Grace and Stop Sending me Jonathan Franzen Novels, by Barrett Brown, The Intercept, Winner-Columns and Commentary Down for the Count and The King Has Spoken and The Power of Sight, by Howard Bryant, ESPN the Magazine, Finalist-Columns and Commentary The Friend, by Matthew Teague, Esquire, Winner-Essays and Criticism How It Feels, by Jenny Zhang, Poetry, Finalist-Essays and Criticism Permissions List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisBecoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of “making” the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists’ attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.Trade ReviewBecoming the News examines the seemingly mundane experience of having been mentioned in the news-an important social phenomenon that scholars have ignored and one that changes how huge numbers of Americans think not only about the news media but about themselves. Palmer weaves a compelling tapestry of classic social theory, modern scholarship, and outstanding interviews. Built on thoughtful and sensitive research and brimming with insight, Becoming the News is a breakthrough contribution to the fields of sociology and journalism studies. -- David Pritchard, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Victims of the Press? 2. What's in It for Them? Weighing the Pros and Cons of Becoming a News Subject 3. The Interview Stage Part 1: Encountering Journalists 4. The Interview Stage Part 2: From Interaction to Story 5. Truth (Perceptions) and Consequences: How News Subjects Judge Accuracy and Error 6. That's Me! ... But It's Not Me: Aesthetic, Emotional, and Existential Effects of Confronting Our News Selves 7. Celebration, Condemnation, Reputation: Audience Feedback as an Indicator of Status and Stigma 8. Making the News in a Digital World 9. Lessons for Subjects and Journalists Note on Method Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReveals the process behind science news: an elite few scholarly journals control press coverage through a mechanism known as an embargo. This title offers an exploration of the embargo's impact on public knowledge of science and medical issues.Trade Review"[A] compelling critique of the self-aggrandizing embargo system that currently rules scientist-editor-reporter relations. . . . Kiernan wins the argument about embargoes cleanly and comprehensively."--Science"Short, concise, and well referenced . . . a must read for all present and future science reporters."--Choice

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Book SynopsisScripps's daring endeavor to produce a newspaper without advertisingTrade Review"Fascinating."--Editor and Publisher"Offering details about Scripps's campaign of secrecy surrounding the experiment, his dislike of department store executives, and his support for labor, this book is an important edition to the literature. . . . Recommended."--Choice"This book's narrow focus on the Day Book makes an appealing case study of the financing and operating of an American newspaper."--Journal of American History"A failed newspaper of the 1910s might seem to hold little relevance for the challenges of twenty-first century journalism. E.W. Scripps's Day Book, however, turns out to offer a case study about the complexities of two current seminal journalistic debates: the role of objectivity and the search for a viable business model to accommodate the industry's civic responsibility."--American Journalism"Stoltzfus demonstrates that he is more than just an excellent researcher and writer. The author connects the mission of The Day Book almost 100 years ago with the twenty-first century world of the media."--Journalism History

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Book SynopsisBefore radio and television, E. W. Scripps's twenty-one newspapers, major newswire service, and prominent news syndication service comprised the first truly national media organization in the United States. Dale E. Zacher details the scope, organization, and character of the mighty Scripps empire during World War I and reveals how the pressures of the market, government censorship, propaganda, and progressivism transformed news coverage. Zacher's account delves into details inside a major newspaper operation during World War I and provides fascinating accounts of its struggles with competition, attending to patriotic duties, and internal editorial dissent. Zacher also looks at war-related issues, considering the newspapers' relationship with President Woodrow Wilson, American neutrality, the move to join the war, and fallout from disillusionment over the actuality of war. As Zacher shows, the progressive spirit and political independence at the Scripps newspapers came under attack andTrade Review"There are few more combistible combinations than a father, a son, and a newspaper chain. . . . The story is told effectively ... and is an excellent addition to the flourishing Illinois 'History of Communication' series."--Columbia Journalism Review"Straightforward, rich in detail, and free of scholarly abstruseness and jargon. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice“Zacher has dug deep into the Scripps archives to tell [a story] about the tensions surrounding the coverage of war—or of any national crisis—and how they can affect the ideals to which journalists cling.”--Journalism History“This study is valuable not only for expanding what we know of the Scripps empire, but also for what is perhaps the first case study of how a large news media organization adapted to the challenges of World War I.”--American Journalism“Provides new insights into the chain’s decision making in wartime.”--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"Zacher's account ... is detailed and often absorbing. Based on scrupulous research in the Scripps organization's archives, he leaves few stones unturned."--American Historical Review"The Scripps Newspapers Go to War is a fascinating, well-written, and well-documented chronicle of a company going through great change. Zacher captures the Scripps concern during a period of real challenges--dealing with Woodrow Wilson; going through the beginning of World War I; experiencing generational changes in ownership and management; and undergoing transitions within the company as it grows in power, prestige, and wealth."--Gerald Baldasty, author of E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers"Anyone interested in the role of an important communications organization in helping impel the nation toward war should find The Scripps Newspapers Go to War fascinating, and somewhat frightening, reading. The importance of the nation's first national news organization--composed of twenty-one newspapers, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, and the second largest wire service--has not received the attention it deserves until now."--Dwight I. Teeter Jr., coauthor of Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil WarTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The concern: June 27, 1914 13 2. Seeds Get Planted: June 1914 to May 1915 32 3. Harsh Realities: May to November 1915 58 4. "Genuine Enthusiastic Support": November 1915 to November 1916 81 5. Democracy versus Autocracy: December 1916 to July 1917 106 6. "To Advocate a Policy and to Yourself Meet Its Requirements": July to December 1917 137 7. Reconsidering an "Ostrich Type of Patriotism": 1918 172 Conclusion: "Harder . . . to Be of Public Service" 211 Notes 225 Bibliography 279 Index 281

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Book SynopsisLinking war correspondence to the history of modern warfareTrade Review"A stimulating inquiry into the place of war correspondents in twentieth-century American life. Part history and part theory, Mary S. Mander's work is provocative. Her effort to recover the voices of journalists and the dance between them and the military and government is extremely important."--Owen V. Johnson, coauthor of Eastern European Journalism: Past, Present, and Future"A thoughtful consideration of the history and culture of war correspondence in the United States. Written in an engaging, muscular voice and filled with flashes of insight, Pen and Sword makes novel arguments based on significant archival research."--John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of News: A History

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the power of the press in Japanese American historyTrade Review"This collection of the couples' personal letters and articles in the Pacific Citizens, and other publications is a positive example of how the United States corrects its errors and learns from them. . . . A welcome addition to the University of Illinois Press Asian American Experience series, providing fascinating insights into the struggles of Japanese Americans during the 20th century."--Journalism History"Fills a gap in the historical record by examining the main Japanese American newspaper published outside the camps. Pacific Citizens would be a welcome addition to college journalism classes about race, class, and gender."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"A complex and nuanced portrait of Larry and Guyo Tajiri, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) newspaper, Pacific Citizen, and the National JACL."--Nichi Bei"Pacific Citizens is an extraordinary piece of historical scholarship. Robinson possesses the rare facility among professional historians of being analytically rigorous while at the same time writing in narrative prose characterized by grace and accessibility."--Arthur A. Hansen, coeditor of Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies

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Book SynopsisThe professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions. Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with Trade Review"Recommended."--Choice "With Making the News Popular, Anthony Nadler offers a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship trying to make sense of the fragmentation of journalism's high-modern paradigm and the democratic implications of the various models of news that have emerged in its stead."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This important book offers a penetrating and original analysis of how news audiences are mobilized. With his path-breaking contribution to media studies and journalism history, Nadler has woven a captivating account that reveals how media institutions--from traditional newspapers to cable news and social news sites--shape our preferences, and why this matters for democratic society. Making News Popular should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking a critical understanding of the economic and cultural imperatives that drive our news media."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"In this imaginative and original history, Tony Nadler shows how, since the 1970s, U.S. news institutions have embraced the principle that consumer preferences rather than editorial expertise should determine the news agenda. Along the way, he asks important questions about the consequences of this enduring approach for our own digital news era. How do the news media shape and constrain the very audience choices they claim to measure? What are the consequences for our public culture and democracy? How can we build a more participatory, inclusive, and democratic news media? An illuminating, challenging, and highly readable account."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The future of interactive journalism will not depend on whether it can increase page views or session times, but whether it can deepen our readers' and viewers' engagement with complex issues. Nikki Usher's Interactive Journalism is a great introduction into this emerging field of journalism where the most collaborative and interdisciplinary team players will thrive."--Wolfgang Blau, Director of Digital Strategy, Chief Digital Officer, Condé Nast International"In Interactive Journalism, Nikki Usher skillfully answers three questions rarely addressed at the same time: how are newsrooms changing with their adoption of interactive journalism, what economic and cultural factors are driving this adoption, and why new ways of telling stories may affect the impact of journalism."--James T. Hamilton, author of All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News"For future scholars of journalism production, this book will provide an important look at how interactive journalism--a subfield that seems likely to expand and transform in the coming decades--was practiced in the second decade of the 21st century." --Newspaper Research Journal"Usher's book is an ambitious and foundational text for understanding this new subspecialty, and as such, it should beget a new generation of inquiry into the political economy and boundary issues it deftly raises." --New Media & Society"As the first sustained investigation of this new form of journalism, Usher's main argument is persuasive....Her book will certainly serve as a foundational text for scholars turning their attention to this growing journalistic practice." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"A thorough and multifaceted study of the evolution of journalism and what it means for both journalists, readers and communication in general." --European Journal of Communication"Walker-McWilliams has written a fascinating accessible biography of union organizer Rev. Addie Wyatt, whose life's work was at the intersection of organized labor, civil rights, women's rights, and the church." --Library Journal"Nikki Usher is once again on the frontline of the newsroom, with this vivid account of the rise of maker culture in online news. Expertly cutting through the techno-jargon, Usher provides the definitive portrait of interactive journalism--from its economic benefits and professional challenges to its potential to fundamentally transform how all of us see and engage with the world."--Rod Benson, New York University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Drawing from a constellation of contemporary theory from multiple disciplines, including social movement theory, intersectionality, and status politics, Front Pages, Front Lines brings together new perspectives on suffrage and offers compelling suggestions for further research into media and social change." --Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "The greatest strength of this collection is the diversity that it represents . . . worth a slot on the bookshelf of any supporter of women's rights who realize the fight still rages on." --American Journalism "Steiner, Kitch, and Kroeger have put together an important and fascinating anthology, the first book to explore, in depth, the complex relationship between the US women's suffrage movement and the media that both supported and resisted it. . . . Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsBack coverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historiography: Women’s Suffrage and the Media2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women3. The Woman’s Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage4. Writing and “Righting”: African American Women Seek the Vote5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:“A White Man’s Country and a White Man9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women’s Suffrage Movement10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women’s SuffrageAfterword: Women’s Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White SupremacyAbout the ContributorsIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most persistent criticism of Langston Hughes has been that he was not a thinker, that he had no ideas to speak of, was not an intellectual, and therefore need not be taken too seriously by intellectuals and scholars. A collection of this kind is needed to do justice to the often inspired quality of Hughes's weekly journalistic writing and to expand our sense of his interests and ideas. De Santis's is the first book to bring this material within easy reach."--Arnold Rampersad, author of the two-volume The Life of Langston Hughes

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Book SynopsisPresents an inquiry into the history and the moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form. Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and their communicative worlds, this title strives to refigure mass communication as a concept, and illuminate significant but overlooked rhetorical episodes in its history.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. "This book is particularly powerful because, like rhetoric itself, it is not limited to any one discipline. Simonson uses cultural studies and rhetoric as energizing points of departure for rehabilitating and reinforcing the idea and social form of mass communication."--Rosa A. Eberly, author of Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres"This volume of original thinking should prompt the same in its readers. Highly recommended."--Choice "An original and often intriguing way of defining mass communication over time."--Communication Research Trends

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Book SynopsisDetails missed opportunity in the newspaper industry's diversity effortsTrade ReviewFrank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, 2013. "Gwyneth Mellinger's Chasing Newsroom Diversity: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action offers explanations for 'why an effort so promising failed so profoundly.' In explaining the failure, the book provides a meticulous documented view of the ASNE over a fifty-year span, beginning in the mid-1950s. The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity."--American Journalism "Using the insights of whiteness studies and a rich array of primary sources, Mellinger demonstrates how and why the American Society of Newspaper Editors failed to achieve its 1978 diversity initiative's hiring goals by the goal year of 2000. She persuasively argues that whiteness (and maleness) consistently operated as a professional norm within the ASNE across time, even as the organization's leaders attempted to diversify newsrooms across America. A compelling and provocative book."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment“Provides a compelling explanation for how forward-thinking goals can be felled by institutional prejudice. . . . Anyone interested in the social movements of the twentieth century will find the book a worthwhile read.”—Journalism History "Chasing Newsroom Diversity provides a thoroughly reported account of the evolution of ASNE's approach to minority recruitment and the feeble implementation of that goal in the workplace."--Newspaper Research Journal"The work provides an excellent foundation for further studies on newsroom diversity. As a teaching tool, the book also would likely prompt lively classroom discussions."--American Journalism "Mellinger provides a very useful and most informative case study of how one professional organization addresses some deeply embedded, institutionalized norms with social, political and cultural implications over an extended period of time--50 years, with insight into the degree of difficulty it had in trying to dismantle them."--Gateway Journalism Review

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Book SynopsisThe professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades. Making the News Popular examines how subsequent events brought on a post-professional period that opened the door for imagining that consumer preferences should drive news production--and unleashed both crisis and opportunity on journalistic institutions. Anthony Nadler charts a paradigm shift, from market research's reach into the editorial suite in the 1970s through contemporary experiments in collaborative filtering and social news sites like Reddit and Digg. As Nadler shows, the transition was and is a rocky one. It also goes back much further than many experts suppose. Idealized visions of demand-driven news face obstacles with each iteration. Furthermore, the post-professional philosophy fails to recognize how organizations mobilize interest in news and public life. Nadler argues that this civic function of news organizations has been neglected in debates on the future of journalism. Only with Trade Review"Recommended."--Choice "With Making the News Popular, Anthony Nadler offers a unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship trying to make sense of the fragmentation of journalism's high-modern paradigm and the democratic implications of the various models of news that have emerged in its stead."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This important book offers a penetrating and original analysis of how news audiences are mobilized. With his path-breaking contribution to media studies and journalism history, Nadler has woven a captivating account that reveals how media institutions--from traditional newspapers to cable news and social news sites--shape our preferences, and why this matters for democratic society. Making News Popular should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking a critical understanding of the economic and cultural imperatives that drive our news media."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"In this imaginative and original history, Tony Nadler shows how, since the 1970s, U.S. news institutions have embraced the principle that consumer preferences rather than editorial expertise should determine the news agenda. Along the way, he asks important questions about the consequences of this enduring approach for our own digital news era. How do the news media shape and constrain the very audience choices they claim to measure? What are the consequences for our public culture and democracy? How can we build a more participatory, inclusive, and democratic news media? An illuminating, challenging, and highly readable account."--Kathy Roberts Forde, author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The future of interactive journalism will not depend on whether it can increase page views or session times, but whether it can deepen our readers' and viewers' engagement with complex issues. Nikki Usher's Interactive Journalism is a great introduction into this emerging field of journalism where the most collaborative and interdisciplinary team players will thrive."--Wolfgang Blau, Director of Digital Strategy, Chief Digital Officer, Condé Nast International"In Interactive Journalism, Nikki Usher skillfully answers three questions rarely addressed at the same time: how are newsrooms changing with their adoption of interactive journalism, what economic and cultural factors are driving this adoption, and why new ways of telling stories may affect the impact of journalism."--James T. Hamilton, author of All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News"For future scholars of journalism production, this book will provide an important look at how interactive journalism--a subfield that seems likely to expand and transform in the coming decades--was practiced in the second decade of the 21st century." --Newspaper Research Journal"Usher's book is an ambitious and foundational text for understanding this new subspecialty, and as such, it should beget a new generation of inquiry into the political economy and boundary issues it deftly raises." --New Media & Society"As the first sustained investigation of this new form of journalism, Usher's main argument is persuasive....Her book will certainly serve as a foundational text for scholars turning their attention to this growing journalistic practice." --Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"A thorough and multifaceted study of the evolution of journalism and what it means for both journalists, readers and communication in general." --European Journal of Communication"Walker-McWilliams has written a fascinating accessible biography of union organizer Rev. Addie Wyatt, whose life's work was at the intersection of organized labor, civil rights, women's rights, and the church." --Library Journal"Nikki Usher is once again on the frontline of the newsroom, with this vivid account of the rise of maker culture in online news. Expertly cutting through the techno-jargon, Usher provides the definitive portrait of interactive journalism--from its economic benefits and professional challenges to its potential to fundamentally transform how all of us see and engage with the world."--Rod Benson, New York University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ambitious and fascinating… A worthy invitation to further research and discussion about the role of journalism in society."--International Journal of Communication"Barnhurst's focus on the forms of news across media in the last century and this one is welcome and fresh. It is closely argued, often subtle and always interesting in its overall hypotheses. . . . It is thoughtful, seasoned and intellectually ambitious work." --Media History "This is a magisterial book, required reading for anyone seriously interested in the recent history or future of journalism. . . . Virtually every chapter has multiple insights worth consideration on their own, and it will, as important books do, generate future scholarship of note."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers."--Journal of Communication "Kevin Barnhurst's Mister Pulitzer and the Spider successfully interweaves two distinct threads of exposition and narrative, with both contributing to why this book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers." --Journal of Communication"Everyone has a theory about what's gone wrong with the news business. Kevin Barnhurst's explanation is original, elegantly presented, and potentially useful both to journalists and to citizens trying to decide which version of the news is worth paying attention to."--James Fallows, author of Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy"With unparalleled scholarly precision spanning more than 200 years, Kevin Barnhurst chronicles the tumultuous evolution and revolution of news--how it's created and consumed. Through his panoramic lens, Barnhurst reveals a macro and micro focus on why today's newspapers are thinner, broadcast sound-bites shorter, and news often skeletal on the facts, the result of technology developing shorter attention spans. Spoiler alert, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider leaves us with a glimmer of hope."--Roberta Baskin, award-winning investigative journalist"Over the years, I've found few scholars whose work is as original, insightful, or readable as Kevin Barnhurst's. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider exceeds even that lofty expectation. Barnhurst's story of how the hierarchy and meaning of reporters' five Ws have changed since the late 1800s explains more fully how the news has shaped society, and been shaped by it, than any book I've read. If your nightstand, classroom, or personal library has room for only one book on journalism, make it this one."--Thomas E. Patterson, author of Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism"Kevin Barnhurst's methodical analysis of the forms in which journalistic expression has developed deserves study by anyone interested in public knowledge in an age of expanding communication technology."--Bill Kovach, co-author of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect "Kevin Barnhurst's tour of a century of American news draws on an imaginative blend of empirical content analysis and cultural criticism. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider explores how news evolved from the realism of storytelling to the modernism of interpretation and is full of interesting surprises for anyone who cares about the future of journalism in the Internet age."--David Nord, author of Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers "Far-reaching in its scope and provocative in its claims, this is a work of brilliant originality."--Stephen Coleman, co-author of The Media and the Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse

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Book SynopsisSuffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications. This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage. Contributors: Maurine H. BeasTrade Review"Drawing from a constellation of contemporary theory from multiple disciplines, including social movement theory, intersectionality, and status politics, Front Pages, Front Lines brings together new perspectives on suffrage and offers compelling suggestions for further research into media and social change." --Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"The greatest strength of this collection is the diversity that it represents . . . worth a slot on the bookshelf of any supporter of women's rights who realize the fight still rages on." --American Journalism"Steiner, Kitch, and Kroeger have put together an important and fascinating anthology, the first book to explore, in depth, the complex relationship between the US women's suffrage movement and the media that both supported and resisted it. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice”The centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment encourages a fresh rethinking of the history of the women's suffrage movement, to which this volume is a welcome addition. Special kudos for its sustained attention to racial and regional diversity, as well as its broad chronological sweep.”—Susan Ware, author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

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Book SynopsisFinalist for theAEJMC Tankard Book Award Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world’s dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen’s biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in American--and eventually international--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causes that Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorful features to a service previously known for stodgy reliability, pushing through disruptive technological innovations like the instantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade to bring American-style press freedom--inseparable from private ownership, in Cooper’s view--to every counTrade Review"Highlighting historical facts and perspectives, showcasing a who's who in the news industry, Mr. Associated Press easily serves as required reading for journalism students. Bridging gaps of knowledge from one decade to the next, it offers insights into how an upstart news route expanded to cover the world, and why journalism -- rightly or wrongly -- has become nearly synonymous with 'the media'." --Project Censored“Allen uses the figure of Kent Cooper to narrate a compelling and important story of American news from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. An incredibly valuable book for scholars of communications, media, journalism, history, and American foreign relations.”--Heidi Tworek, author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945Table of ContentsAcknowledgments “Fitting himself for the newspaper profession” Apprenticeship and Ascent Celebrity News and Competition: Transforming the Domestic News Service The Opposition International Ambitions The Japanese Gambit New Media Politics, External and Otherwise The Shadow of War The Government Suit The Crusade The Voice of America Mr. Associated Press Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFeatures chapters devoted to baseball, football, basketball, soccer, golf, and other sports, giving readers the inside story on what it's like to cover a beat. This book is useful for beginning journalists and aspiring sports reporters, while providing sports fans in general with a view behind the headlines.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Bob Hammel Part I. Beat Coverage1. Football Adam Schefter2. Hockey Jeff Gordon3. Soccer Scott French4. Basketball Tim Povtak5. Auto Racing Dick Mittman6. Golf Melanie Hauser7. The Olympics and International Sports Philip Hersh8. Tennis Mark Ambrogi9. Baseball Howard Sinker10. Writing Columns Pat FordePart II. The Rest of the StoryIntroduction to Part II Bill Buchalter11. Covering High School Sports Larry Ames12. Covering College Sports Jim Rossow13. Memoir: Covering Sports in Small Communities Larry Anderson14. Sports Reporting and Investigative Journalism Danny Robbins15. Sports Profiles Nelson Price16. Dramatic Narrative in Sportswriting Elliott Almond17. Freelance Sportswriting Steve Salerno18. Reporting on the Business of Sports Jay Weiner19. So You Want to be a Sports Editor Garry Howard20. Covering Women's Sports: Fair Play? Michelle Kaufman21. Racism and Sports Abraham Aamidor22. Ethics John Cherwa

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Book SynopsisNews organizations have always sought to deliver information faster and to larger audiences. But when clicks drive journalism, the result is often simplistic, sensational, and error-ridden reporting. In this book, Seong Jae Min argues in favor of slow journalism, a growing movement that aims to produce more considered, deliberate reporting that better serves the interests of democracy. Min explores the role of technology in journalism from the printing press to artificial intelligence, documenting the hype and hope associated with each new breakthrough as well as the sometimes disappointingand even damagingunintended consequences. His analysis cuts through the discussion of clickbait headlines and social-media clout chasing to identify technological bells and whistles as the core problem with journalism today. At its heart, Min maintains, traditional shoe-leather reportingknocking on doors, talking to people, careful observation and analysisis still the best way for journalism to serTrade Review“A highly readable journey through a history of technological innovations and journalism that argues against investing in the “new” for its own sake. A fascinating development in the scholarship around slow journalism.”—Megan Le Masurier,editor of Slow Journalism “This well-researched plea for deliberately reflective journalism practice is bound to inspire debate and productive follow-up inquiry.”—R. Pagano Choice

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that aim to capture the versatility and verve of technology writing. This work explores a wide range of topics - from ""crowdsourcing"" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production.

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Book SynopsisThese sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Ilof North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories.Trade Review“If breaking bread is key to our humanity, it is doubly so in a conflict zone. In this riveting collection, correspondents share war stories through the lens of food and drink. . . . The food rituals become a vehicle for tales of greed and pettiness, but also friendship and human dignity.” * Mother Jones *“If you're the type of person who is curious about lives lived under extreme circumstances and the journalists who cover them, you'll find stories to savor in Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar." * Los Angeles Times *“Though Ernest Hemingway was arguably the best food writer of his day, he was not alone in the trenches and deserts where he got his inspiration, and this splendid volume of reports by journalists who spent time smack in the middle of the action at Kandahar, Haiti, Pakistan, and other war zones will give you a greater appreciation of whatever it is you eat at your dinner table tonight. There's a lot of quirkiness to these stories—how could there not be when one is titled ‘How Harry Lost His Ear’?—and there are gristly tales of the horrors and deprivations of war. But it is in the ingenuity and the hunger pangs of people trying first to survive then not to starve that you find how important a meal, not just sustenance, is to the human spirit.” * Esquire *“It may not be the usual light holiday read, but it's a fascinating one. This compilation of food-centric stories from foreign correspondents around the world will put you at the table with well-fed dignitaries and on mountainsides in Afghanistan with soldiers digging through their MREs (meals ready to eat).” * San Francisco Chronicle *“Offers mindful stories about food and extreme eating from journalists in conflict zones around the world, including a profile of the former chef to deceased dictator Kim Jong-iI of North Korea and a young female journalist’s tale of sharing the mud crabs of the title, with a just-as-young Hamid Karzai (Afghan president) in a foxhole.” * Vancouver Sun *“These are no Bourdain-like reminiscences of exploring foreign cuisine. The authors share the realities of MREs, the eating habits of famous and infamous political figures, and the struggle of surviving for weeks on burned rice and filthy water. . . . A compelling and highly worthwhile read.” * Serious Eats *“An exceptional choice for those who enjoy finding out the hidden culinary lives of the people whom we read about in the daily press. . . . A pleasurable read such as this would be a great addition to a course on the subject of food and memory, or even as lightly intellectual fare for the food enthusiast. Highly recommended.” * Indiana Review *“By sharing memories of meals eaten with refugees, with soldiers, with friends made in unlikely war-torn places--and in one case, with their captors--the 18 journalists whose stories appear here provide an unusual tour of the wars of our time. . . . The reporters' locales, experiences and voices bring a variety of courses to the table.” * Shelf Awareness *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Name of the Third Chicken: Kosovo Matt McAllesterPart One: Survival Rations Night Light: El Salvador and Haiti Lee HockstaderA Diet for Dictators: North Korea Barbara DemickSiege Food: Bosnia Janine di GiovanniMiraculous Harvests: China Isabel HiltonPart Two: Insistent Hosts How Harry Lost His Ear: Northern Ireland Scott AndersonWeighed down by a Good Meal: Gaza and Israel Joshua HammerThe Price of Oranges: Pakistan Jason BurkeJeweled Rice: Iran Farnaz FassihiThe Oversize Helmsman of an Undersize Country: Israel Matt ReesPart Three: Food under Fire Same-Day Cow: Afghanistan Tim HetheringtonEau de Cadavre: Somalia and Rwanda Sam KileyEating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Afghanistan Christina LambMunther Cannot Cook Your Turkey: Iraq Rajiv ChandrasekaranPart Four: Breaking Bread The Best Man I Ever Knew: Georgia Wendell SteavensonDinner with a Jester: Afghanistan Jon Lee AndersonSugarland: Haiti Amy WilentzMy Life in Pagans: Ossetia James MeekThe House of Bread: Bethlehem Charles M. SennottBiographies Acknowledgments Index

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Book Synopsis* The unique perspective of this book comes from its comparative approach. It deals with material from 5 different countries, whereas the competition focuses purely on either the UK or US. * Includes coverage of every main media industry, including the music and advertising industries, which have been neglected in other studies.Trade Review"The user-friendly text—with ‘summaries’ and ‘conclusions’ at intervals—will help students to think for themselves. Meanwhile, general readers will find this a clear introduction to a field of history too significant to be left solely to the specialists." Donald Read, English Historical Review "In a feat of compression and erudite conciseness, Comparative Media History ranges across several continents and over two centuries of media history to trace the emergence of current international media institutions from past historical traditions. A brilliant textbook for media students, to be ranked alongside Asa Briggs and Peter Burke’s A Social History of the Media as a key introduction to comparative media studies." David Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh "Comparing developments in seven media industries, five countries and across time, this invaluable book's depth and scope seem unmatched in its field. The book promises to reshape thinking and become a touchstone for future research in media history. Indeed, rarely has a book come across my desk that seemed so likely to so profoundly affect scholarship in a field". Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. PART 1. ANTECEDENTS, CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES. Chapter 1: Newspapers, Radicalism, Repression and Economic Change, 1789-1847. Chapter 2: The Focusing of Political Communications and Newspaper Business, 1848-81. PART 2. POPULARIZATION, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY, 1881-1918. Chapter 3: Commercialization, Consumerism and Technology, 1881-1914. Chapter 4: Politics, New Forms of Communication and the Globalizing Process, 1881-1918. PART 3. DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF THE MASSES FORMULA, 1918-1947. Chapter 5: The Business and Ideology of Mass Culture, 1918-1939. Chapter 6: War and Beyond, 1939-1947. PART 4. THE GLOBAL AGE, 1948-2002. Chapter 7: Cold War and the Victory of Commercialism, 1948-1980. Chapter 8: Continuity and Change since 1980. Notes. References and Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisBourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieua s impassioned critique of our media--saturated culture.Trade Review“The French sociologist is already making a significant impact in media studies and his approach, as illustrated in this volume, represents one of the most sophisticated sociological approaches to journalism research.” British Journal of Sociology “These excellent detailed studies, when combined with a very clear introductory essay by Benson and Neveu, and an accessible, previously untranslated 1995 lecture by Bourdieu himself make this without question an important and useful volume.” Theory and Society “Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field places journalism squarely back in the sociological imagination. Deftly examining the intersections journalism cohabits with politics, economics, education, and activism, it uses the work of Bourdieu to consider journalism as a sociological phenomenon. Required reading for those who want to better understand modern journalism in complex societies.” Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania “Timely and informative, this book builds a valuable bridge between social theory and journalism. Bourdieu opens up analysis of the journalistic field, but the contributors to this volume also improve our understanding of how to put Bourdieu’s sociological approach to work.” Craig Calhoun, New York University “The book is a valuable contribution to the formation and development of the field theory of journalism.” Anna Horolets, Warsaw School of Social PsychologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. List of Contributors. Chapter 1 Introduction: Field Theory as a work in Progress - Rodney Benson and Erik Neveu. PART I: THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS. Chapter 2 The Political Field, The Social Science Field, and the Journalistic Field - Pierre Bourdieu. Chapter 3 The Double Dependency: The Journalistic Field Between Politics and Markets - Patrick Champagne. Chapter 4 Sub-Fields of Specialized Journalism - Dominique Marchetti. PART II: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES. Chapter 5 Mapping Field Variation: Journalism in France and the United States - Rodney Benson. Chapter 6 The Contaminated Blood Scandal: Reframing Medical News - Patrick Champagne and Dominique Marchetti. Chapter 7 Economic Journalism in France - Julien Duval. Chapter 8 Media Consercration of the Political Order - Eric Durras. Chapter 9 Channeling into the Journalistic Field: Youth Activism and the Media Justice Movement - Eric Klinenberg. PART III : CRITICAL REFLECTIONS. Chapter 10 Bourdieu, the Frankfurt School and Cultural Studies: On Some Misunderstandings - Erik Neveu. Chapter 11 Autonomy from What? - Michael Schudson. Chapter 12 Two Approaches to Comparative Media Research: Field Theory and Differentiation Theory - Daniel C. Hallin. Select Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisRoger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens.Trade Review"[An immensely] complex and densely argued book. At the same time, it is intuitively in tune with many lay people, and possibly increasing numbers of journalists." Michael Bromley, Australian Journalism Review "What a wonderful book! A thoughtful and convincing narrative, theoretically enlightening, and explaining the necessary question: how is the medialized cosmopolitan public sphere – the mediapolis – possible? A new Habermas! A new cosmopolitan critical theory of the emerging global civil society and its contradictions." Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "This is a very intelligent and original book by one of the most consistently interesting writers on the media. It is the most penetrating discussion of the moral challenges posed by our relationship to modern media systems, technologies and institutions that I have read to date. Roger Silverstone tackles big and complex issues here which go quite beyond what has come to be regarded as the normal agenda of “media ethics”. In doing so he generates some original and I believe powerful analytical concepts which should begin to establish the new moral-critical agenda that he rightly judges to be so lacking in contemporary media studies." John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent University "Roger Silverstone's delicate meditation offers a guide to the perplexed for the citizen-audiences of the emerging global media sphere. Confronting a full agenda of problems facing humanity such as terrorism, theologico-military empires, and the proper distance toward minorities in an integrating world, Silverstone finds splinters of hope in the contradictory mess of mediated life today. The fact that media somehow bring the world together in a space of appearance, he argues in a style that is at once critical, nuanced, and bold, is enough to encourage us to think of media and morality in the same thought." John Durham Peters, University of IowaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements vi 1 Morality and Media 1 2 Mediapolis or the Space of Appearance 25 3 The Rhetoric of Evil 56 4 Contrapuntal Cultures 80 5 The Mediapolis and Everyday Life 106 6 Hospitality and Justice 136 7 Regulation and Literacy 162 Notes 189 References 199 Index 207

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Book SynopsisIn this new important book, Geraldine Muhlmann provides a comparative history of the rise of modern journalism, from the revolution of the late nineteenth century, with its new concern for facts, through to the present day. Her account is structured around the tension between what she calls the unifying and decentring tendencies in modern journalism - that is, the concern to give readers a truth that is acceptable to all, on the one hand, and the concern to resist dominant representations and give voice to alternative views, on the other. She illustrates her account with a wide range of case studies, from Sverine, who covered the trial of Dreyfus in late nineteenth-century France, to the great Vietnam War reporters, Seymour M. Hersh and Michael Herr. In between are fascinating new readings of famous figures like George Orwell and Norman Mailer as well as some less well-known writers, such as the great American muckraker, Lincoln Steffens, and the French crusading journalist, Trade Review"At last! A truly intelligent and well-written book on this most elusive subject ? what, indeed, is at the heart of that matter we call journalism?" Norman Mailer "An immensely thoughtful book (that) brilliantly achieves the author's ambition to 'have meaning for those who practise journalism or wish to do so'." Tim Luckhurst, Times Higher Education "Its engagement with journalism as a developing set of practices is very refreshing." Australian Journalism Review "This is a stimulating and deeply intelligent book, full of striking insights into landmarks in the journalistic history of Britain, France, and the US. A Political History of Journalism is the most sophisticated inquiry I know into the complexity of a serious journalist's two enduring problems: how to find a relation to events in which they are not flattened into false familiarity, and a relation to readers in which they are not seduced into false consensus." Todd Gitlin, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University "Géraldine Muhlmann's A Political History of Journalism is a fascinating and carefully argued account of how journalism can create and challenge democratic community. It is a highly original contribution to the history of journalism and to the study of the processes that constitute the public sphere." Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. INTRODUCTION, 1. CHAPTER 1 / Unifying and decentring in modern journalism. 1. Unifying journalisms: the triumph of the witness-ambassador. ‘Facts’ acceptable to all, The truth is visible, The figure of the witness-ambassador,. 2. Journalisms that decentre: acts of daring, difficulties and pitfalls. The dilemma of the decentring journalist, Making us see otherness and connecting it to us,. CHAPTER 2 / An archetype of the witness-ambassador: Séverine, reporter at the trial of Captain Dreyfus (La Fronde, 6 August-15 September 1899). 1. The truth of the senses. The ‘witness’ against the ‘rhetoricians’, A radical sensualism,. 2. The body of the reporter. Woman-as-the-people, The heritage of Jules Vallés,. 3. Unifying by orchestrating a conflict. CHAPTER 3 / Unifying through a test: Nelly Bly, Albert Londres and Edward R. Murrow. 1. Nelly Bly or the test of the hidden. Stunt journalism, Making us see what is hidden and making us see ourselves, ‘We’ and ‘the others’,. 2. Albert Londres or the test of strangeness. The gaze as emergence of the strange, From ‘I don’t understand’ to ‘”it” makes an appeal to us’, Au Bagne (1923),. 3. Edward R Morrow or the test of the usurpation of the centre. ‘See it now’ versus McCarthyism: ‘Americanness’ at stake, ‘Un-American’: the situation reversed, Exposure to the public,. CHAPTER 4 / The limitations of the position of witness-ambassador: the case of Lincoln Steffens. 1. The ease of the recourse to ‘I saw’. 2. The itinerary of a Muckraker in crisis. The Muckrakers, Lincoln Steffens: from ‘the facts’ to ‘the system’, The public, a prison,. 3. Saying good-bye to the witness-ambassador?. CHAPTER 5 / The difficulties of decentrement: the New Journalism and the early years of Libération. 1. The New Journalism and the temptation of ubiquity. A journalism in the first person, The ‘chameleon’ journalism of Tom Wolfe and its ambivalence, Misunderstandings, the incommunicable and the questioning of reality in the New Journalism: a reading of Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the. Night (1968),. 2. Libé 1 and the temptation to unify the dominated. Multiplicity of voices or common voice of the dominated? The double discourse of the early years of ‘Libération’, The search for the ‘wandering crowd’: Marc Kravetz reporter in Iran,. CHAPTER 6 / An archetype of decentring: George Orwell. 1. The question of the other gaze. The desire for metamorphosis: ‘Down and out in Paris and London (1933)’, ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ (1937) or self-criticism, Shooting an elephant’ (1936). 2. The solitude of the decentrer in the reportages of 1936-1937. The double exteriority in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’, ‘Homage to Catalonia’ or the reporter as exile,. 3. The gaze as decentring. A reading of 1984. Winston or the birth of a gaze, The stages in the annihilation of the gaze,. CHAPTER 7 / Seeing violence. Seymour M. Hersh, Michael Herr: two decentring reporters in the Vietnam War. 1. The ‘other Americans’: Seymour M. Hersh and the My Lai massacre. From the facts to the intimacy of violence, The witnesses speak: those others we once were,. 2. Michael Herr in Vietnam: Violence as an impossible spectacle. The alternatives: the protected gaze or the death of the gaze, The blindness of journalists, Making the ‘I am unable to see’ visible,. CONCLUSION. NOTES. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED

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Book SynopsisThis important book considers anew the globalization phenomenon in the media sphere. Rather than heralding globalization or warning of its dangers, as in many other books, Kai Hafez analyzes the degree to which media globalization is really taking place.Trade Review“This book carefully picks asunder some of the key assumptions embedded in the accepted debate about globalization. The radical contribution of this fine book is its meticulous examination of evidence used in the mainstream globalization debate. Hafez insists, convincingly, that this myth is riddled with perceptual errors, ideological projections and political interests. This book is a well-argued, much-needed intervention that pleads for better scholarship to illuminate the ‘necessary myth’ of globalization.” Prof. Farrell Corcoran, Dublin City University in: Global Media and Communication “The book offers a good combination of theoretical and empirical response to the mainstream debate about globalization challenges the easy assumption that the advance of globalization is inevitably taking over the world with enormous influence on different societies in terms of national politics, cultures and economy. What Hafez manages to achieve in this book is to affirm that there are no truly transnational media, and that the ultimate power in media regulation remains in national hands. We are yet to see the emergence of a global public sphere. Along with this interesting and useful argument that is not so ‘conventional’, this book offers a thorough review of the mainstream debate over globalization and its influence over the world, which I feel will be very useful. A major virtue of this book is that it does not only look into the cultural dimension of globalization, but also into the economic implications and impacts upon national politics, media policies and news and information.” Dr. Lian Zhu, Bournemouth University in: European Journal of Communication “Hafez definitely succeeds at what he sets out to do: to critically summarize and assess the available empirical evidence of the various dimensions of media globalization using a system theory framework. The emphasis on actual empirical evidence for key statements in globalization scholarship is refreshing, and this book is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about media globalization. Recommended.” Dr. Henrik Örnebring, University of Oxford in: Hot Topics in Journalism and Mass Communication “Given the scope and clarity, I would not hesitate to assign the book in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses. Hafez delivers an airtight argument to respond to declarations about the new role of the ‘global media’ in a post-everything era.” Prof. Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. in: British Journal of Sociology “To his immense credit, Hafez has attempted to provide not only a balanced survey of most of the existing literature on the topic, but also a carefully structured narrative that touches on most of the relevant aspects of the subject. Hafez declares at the outset his intention to recuperate the concept of globalization through theoretical refinement and empirical evidence. He is right in his estimation that such a reworking of what constitutes 'global' developments is a prerequisite to the evaluation of the debates on global media. Hafez's is a timely, careful, and important intervention, presented in a style that invites a readership that will include both students and researchers.” Ramaswami Harindranath, University of Melbourne in: Fifth-Estate-Online - International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism „Ein atemloses Buch, das anhand zahlreicher Beispiele zeigt, wie Regionalismus und Lokalität gestärkt werden. Zugleich entlarvt es damit den Mythos von einer globalen Vereinheitlichung der Kultur und der Lebensweisen. Eine anregende Lektüre.” Lothar Mikos in: tv diskurs, Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Medien “Drawing on a tradition of revisionist scholarship, this argument represents a welcome balance to the widespread globalization-as-given narrative that has frequently dominated both academic and popular discussions of the issue. Also valuable is Hafez’s focus on a wide range of issues compared to more narrowly focused accounts of media globalization.” Kalyani Chadha, University of Maryland in: The Information Society “The Myth of Media Globalization undoubtedly offers an important contribution to the fields of mass and media communications, and will prove useful to those dedicated to studying the political implications of media globalization. Its deft maneuvering between research materials and media platforms opens itself up to broad range of applications. And it provides a crucial reminder that our critical evaluations, whether they focus on film, television, new media, cultural representation and/or political economy, could always stand to be more nuanced by the historical and material realities of the global audiovisual landscape.” Patty Jeehyun Ahn, University of Southern California in: European Journal of Cultural Studies “Hafez raises many important questions in a sober and critical way, without ever preaching. He shows a critical detachment that is further enhanced by the fact that he, unlike many of his colleagues, always keeps a focus on the way the individual interacts with the media. No matter what topic he discusses – the digital divide, xenophobia, or the new world order in the information age – Hafez never losses sight of the individuals who are hit by the wave of globalization and always insists on their (partial) immunity to the insinuations of global communication.” Dr. Stephan Weichert, Institute for Media Policy, Berlin in: Political Communication (also: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft) “Hafez’ book is an excellent introduction to the core issues at stake in media globalization and brings together an excellent array of case studies and alternative points of view to make a highly useful contribution to the ongoing discussion of globalization.” Prof. Kaalev Leetaru University of Illinois, USA “Hafez' book is well written. The point is made convincingly that so far no global public sphere has been established. Therefore it seems too early to talk about a paradigmatic change of the global communication system. Nevertheless, Hafez argues, the myth of globalizatin has been helpful for a better understanding of global processes.” Prof. Dr. Hans Kleinsteuber University of Hamburg, Germany “Globalization is understood to change space and time, economy, national societies and culture. Kai Hafez shows that one cannot speak in general about such a globalization of media. To a large extent, media are targeted and used by local and regional groups, and they mainly refer to local and regional processes. The author introduces a lot of new ideas in the discussion. In its critics of hasty concepts and conclusions, the book will be of high importance for the ongoing discussion on globalization and on the role of civil society.” Prof. Dr. Friedrich Krotz University of Erfurt, Germany “The publication of Kai Hafez’s ‘The Myth of Media Globalization’ represents a valuable addition to the growing body of literature that challenges the easy assumptions of globalization theory. In a series of well-researched chapters, Hafez demonstrates that many of the commonplace assertions about the media and globalization, for example the emergence of a global public sphere, are lacking in any empirical support. As he puts it ‘the fundamental character of ego-centric national media systems remains untouched’. So, too, he demonstrates that the decisive levers of power in media regulation remain in national hands. This book will certainly become a ‘must read’ for any student working in the field.” Prof. Colin Sparks University of Westminster, LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Introduction 1 1 Theory – Structural Transformation of the Global Public Sphere? 7 2 International Reporting – ‘No Further than Columbus . . .’ 24 3 Satellite Television – the Renaissance of World Regions 56 4 Film and Programme Imports – Entertainment Culture as the Core of Media Globalization 82 5 The Internet – the Information Revolution Which Came Too Late for the ‘Third Wave of Democratization’ 100 6 International Broadcasting – from National Propaganda to Global Dialogue and Back Again 118 7 Media and Immigration – Ethnicity and Transculturalism in the Media Age 128 8 Media Policy – why the State Continues to Play a Role 142 9 Media Capital – the Limits of Transnationalization 158 Conclusion: Globalization – a Necessary Myth 167 Notes 175 Bibliography 197 Internet Sources 214 Index 217

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Book SynopsisIn the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting journalism worldwide is the emergence of startup culture, as more and more journalists strike out on their own. In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge combine extensive global and comparative fieldwork. Through rich case studies of journalism startups around the world, they provide deep insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship. Ultimately, they aim to recognize new and emerging voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be. A bold manifesto as well as an in-depth empirical study, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of journalism, media, communication, and related disciplines.Trade Review“In this insightful and engaging exploration of journalism startups and the people behind them, Deuze and Witschge break from narrow disciplinary boundaries in much the same way their subjects have broken from occupational ones. A must-read for anyone interested in the many forms contemporary journalism is taking, and the ‘rascals and rebels’ leading the way.”Jane Singer, City, University of London “To go beyond journalism, these scholars contest tacit assumptions about journalism and journalism studies, arguing that journalism has never been stable but is always becoming. Enter, then, this research on journalism startups, exemplary of how journalism as becoming is both praxis and ideology.”Nikki Usher, University of Illinois “In Beyond Journalism, Deuze and Witschge have seized upon the exciting energy felt among journalists who are working beyond the confines of traditional newsrooms.”Hyperallergic“Students, scholars, and professionals interested in journalism and entrepreneurship may find this book of interest.”Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsPrologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Introduction: What is Journalism (Studies)? 1 The Becoming of Journalism 2 Setting the Scene: Startups 3 Stories from the Heart 4 Making it Work 5 Stories that Matter Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA major volume bringing together the writings of one of the world's leading media scholars. Brings together some of Schudson's most influential pieces of the past decade with some pieces previously unpublished in English and a significant new introduction which reflects on the major themes and directions of the work.Trade Review"Michael Schudson, among the best of the academic writers on the media, has seen in the raucousness and hype of newspapers a pearl beyond price: the instinct to create trouble for the establishment, the panjandrums - them." Financial Times "Schudson brings to his analysis an equanimity often missing among media critics. Uniquely among scholars of contemporary media, he is well steeped in American history and the history of ideas. Schudson's key argument in his eloquent new book is that it is the everyday reporting by the press, often pedestrian, often of trivial occurrences, that holds the powerful to account and limits their power to control what the public knows." Australian Book Review "There's been a publishing boom in recent years in volumes pursuing the special relationship between media and democracy. Many hit the mark, but few hit it so convincingly and enjoyably, and in so few pages, as Schudson's." Australian Journal of Political Science "Schudson is the best writer on journalism I know." John Lloyd, The Herald's Books of the Year "In this sharp and engaging little book ... Michael Schudson has launched a debate that can lead to a normative theory of journalism's purpose in the era of the internet." Tim Luckhurst, Times Higher Education "A considered, fresh argument that points out often-overlooked contributions to democracy made by the unlovable press." M/C Reviews "Schudson does an excellent job of pointing out that the press needs to be free to adequately provide the people with information that they need to form judgments about the government." Books On-Line "Makes a strong case for an independent press in a democracy, particularly the US." Long Range Planning "Among contemporary American scholars working on media and politics, Michael Schudson is easily the wisest. This wonderful book shows why. Its case for thinking differently about journalism and democracy is compelling. There are pearls galore: wise remarks on subjects like the abuse of power, the functional necessity of truth, the decline of the newspaper, the rise of expertise, and the growing importance to democracy of efforts to monitor power publicly." John Keane, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster "There are many reasons the press is unlovable, and irresponsible. Readers will find these enumerated in Michael Schudson’s important book. But readers will also find an eloquent argument about the vital role an independent press plays in a democracy, and why an 'annoying' journalist can advance the public interest just as surely as a President." Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker media writer "A sparkling set of essays on journalism and democracy by one of the world’s foremost media scholars. It alternates between defending the commonplace and attacking the holiest of sacred cows, making you want to rush to the next page of this brilliant, elegant and learned book." James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 Introduction: facts and democracy 1 2 Six or seven things news can do for democracy 11 3 The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar? 27 4 The invention of the American newspaper as popular art, 1890–1930 40 5 Why democracies need an unlovable press 50 6 The concept of politics in contemporary US journalism 63 7 What’s unusual about covering politics as usual 77 8 The anarchy of events and the anxiety of story telling 88 9 Why conversation is not the soul of democracy 94 10 The trouble with experts – and why democracies need them 108 Notes 126 Index 141

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Book SynopsisA major volume bringing together the writings of one of the world's leading media scholars. Brings together some of Schudson's most influential pieces of the past decade with some pieces previously unpublished in English and a significant new introduction which reflects on the major themes and directions of the work.Trade Review"Michael Schudson, among the best of the academic writers on the media, has seen in the raucousness and hype of newspapers a pearl beyond price: the instinct to create trouble for the establishment, the panjandrums - them." Financial Times "Schudson brings to his analysis an equanimity often missing among media critics. Uniquely among scholars of contemporary media, he is well steeped in American history and the history of ideas. Schudson's key argument in his eloquent new book is that it is the everyday reporting by the press, often pedestrian, often of trivial occurrences, that holds the powerful to account and limits their power to control what the public knows." Australian Book Review "There's been a publishing boom in recent years in volumes pursuing the special relationship between media and democracy. Many hit the mark, but few hit it so convincingly and enjoyably, and in so few pages, as Schudson's." Australian Journal of Political Science "Schudson is the best writer on journalism I know." John Lloyd, The Herald's Books of the Year "In this sharp and engaging little book ... Michael Schudson has launched a debate that can lead to a normative theory of journalism's purpose in the era of the internet." Tim Luckhurst, Times Higher Education "A considered, fresh argument that points out often-overlooked contributions to democracy made by the unlovable press." M/C Reviews "Schudson does an excellent job of pointing out that the press needs to be free to adequately provide the people with information that they need to form judgments about the government." Books On-Line "Makes a strong case for an independent press in a democracy, particularly the US." Long Range Planning "Among contemporary American scholars working on media and politics, Michael Schudson is easily the wisest. This wonderful book shows why. Its case for thinking differently about journalism and democracy is compelling. There are pearls galore: wise remarks on subjects like the abuse of power, the functional necessity of truth, the decline of the newspaper, the rise of expertise, and the growing importance to democracy of efforts to monitor power publicly." John Keane, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster "There are many reasons the press is unlovable, and irresponsible. Readers will find these enumerated in Michael Schudson’s important book. But readers will also find an eloquent argument about the vital role an independent press plays in a democracy, and why an 'annoying' journalist can advance the public interest just as surely as a President." Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker media writer "A sparkling set of essays on journalism and democracy by one of the world’s foremost media scholars. It alternates between defending the commonplace and attacking the holiest of sacred cows, making you want to rush to the next page of this brilliant, elegant and learned book." James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi 1 Introduction: facts and democracy 1 2 Six or seven things news can do for democracy 11 3 The US model of journalism: exception or exemplar? 27 4 The invention of the American newspaper as popular art, 1890–1930 40 5 Why democracies need an unlovable press 50 6 The concept of politics in contemporary US journalism 63 7 What’s unusual about covering politics as usual 77 8 The anarchy of events and the anxiety of story telling 88 9 Why conversation is not the soul of democracy 94 10 The trouble with experts – and why democracies need them 108 Notes 126 Index 141

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Book Synopsis* Muhlmann is highly regarded as one of the outstanding young scholars of journalism and political communication. * Polity recently published A Political History of Journalism by the same author. This book is designed as a companion volume; it focuses on the relation of journalism to democracy.Trade Review"Muhlmann's insightful analysis raises the reader's ability to understand the problematic of journalism in contemporary democracies." ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1. Critiquing journalism: a difficult exercise. 1. The public: hostage to journalists. 2. Journalists: hostages to the public. 3. Two poles, two risks. What next? Chapter 2. The notion of 'public', and what can be expected of it. 1. The premises of the notion of 'public': liberal England in the seventeenth century. 2. Kant and the principle of publicity (Offentlichkeit). 3. French Enlightenment and American Enlightenment. 4. The denunciation of the naiveties of the notion of 'public': the problem of the domination of the 'homogenous' in democracy. Chapter 3. A first ideal-critique: the journalist-flâneur. 1. Varying the gaze. 2. An ambiguous and frustrating ideal. 3. Fruitless exasperation: Karl Kraus as a modern Sisyphus. Chapter 4. A second ideal-critique: the journalist-at-war. 1. The journalism of the young Karl Marx (1842-43). 2. The crisis of 1843: towards a radical critique of public space. 3. Journalism, an ongoing problem: Marx as journalist-at-war. Chapter 5. A third ideal-critique: journalism as a 'conflictual unifying' of the democratic community. 1. Gabriel Tarde and an answer to Gustave Le Bon. 2. The sociologists of Chicago (R. E. Park, H. M. Hughes) faced with the reality of an 'integrating' journalist. 3. The risk of myth. 4. Towards a 'conflictual unifying'. Two journalistic acts. Chapter 6. The limits inherent to the figure of the 'spectator', and what they tell us about democracy. 1. The journalism of decentring as the search for the limits of 'seeing'. 2. The Sartrean critique of the position of the spectator. 3. From the gaze to listening. Jean Hatzfeld on the Rwandan genocide. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisPaparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption.Trade Review"Kim McNamara has written an excellent and most useful book. Drawing on a rich vein of information from her industry research as well as from the academic literature, McNamara�s Paparazzi is indispensable for anyone wanting to properly understand the contemporary production and circulation of celebrity."Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"In this fascinating and important study Kim McNamara takes issue with the familiar image of the paparazzi as the invasive hooligans of contemporary journalism. Drawing on first hand research in LA, London and Sydney, she explores the working lives of the paparazzi, the structure of the industry, and the way in which social media are transforming celebrity photography. A fresh, insightful and readable book that has much to teach us about news organisations today - highly recommended."Rosalind Gill, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Paparazzi: A Genealogy 2. Paparazzi and Media Practices 3. Agencies and Image Markets 4. Paparazzi and Celebrity News 5. Paparazzi and Photographic Genres 6. Celebrities, Photography, and Privacy Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisPaparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption.Trade Review"Kim McNamara has written an excellent and most useful book. Drawing on a rich vein of information from her industry research as well as from the academic literature, McNamara�s Paparazzi is indispensable for anyone wanting to properly understand the contemporary production and circulation of celebrity."Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"In this fascinating and important study Kim McNamara takes issue with the familiar image of the paparazzi as the invasive hooligans of contemporary journalism. Drawing on first hand research in LA, London and Sydney, she explores the working lives of the paparazzi, the structure of the industry, and the way in which social media are transforming celebrity photography. A fresh, insightful and readable book that has much to teach us about news organisations today - highly recommended."Rosalind Gill, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Paparazzi: A Genealogy 2. Paparazzi and Media Practices 3. Agencies and Image Markets 4. Paparazzi and Celebrity News 5. Paparazzi and Photographic Genres 6. Celebrities, Photography, and Privacy Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisCurrent anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord takes this pressing issue as his theme and argues that professional journalism is both a normative and analytical notion. It refers to reporting that observes certain ethical standards as well as to collective efforts by journalists to exercise control over the news. Professionalism should not be narrowly associated with the normative ideal as it historically developed in the West during the past century. Instead, it needs to be approached as a valuable concept to throw into sharp relief how journalists define conditions and rules of work within certain settings. Professionalization is about the specialization of labor and control of occupational practice. These issues are important, particularly amidst the combination of political, technological and economic trends that have profoundly unsettled the foundations of modern journalism. By doing Trade Review“This book is the go-to manuscript on journalistic professionalism. It forces readers to repeatedly reset what they know, importing critical questions and valuable answers that change our sense of what professionalism is and how it works. A tour de force!” Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia “Journalism’s claim to professional status has been subject to challenge throughout its history, but it seems fair to say the stakes for democracy have never been higher than they are today. Silvio Waisbord offers a fresh, engaging perspective on a key set of simmering debates. In arguing that professionalism is necessary for journalism to be a counterweight to power, he encourages us to rethink journalism’s core ethics in a manner alert to questions of responsibility, transparency and accountability. Reinventing Professionalism is a must read.” Stuart Allan, The Media School, Bournemouth University “In cutting through disparate literatures about journalism, Silvio Waisbord makes a daring, sophisticated argument about professionalism. Avoiding extremes of sentimentality and cynicism, equally eschewing romantic and apocalyptic claims, he explains why journalism practices and ethics can simultaneously differ, hybridize, and overlap around the world. This book deserves, and will enjoy, a long shelf life.” Linda Steiner, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland “At a time of huge turmoil surrounding the occupation of journalism, Silvio Waisbord provides a supremely ‘professional’ account of the boundaries of journalistic work. Scholars and students interested in the history and origins of journalism practice will find a clear and detailed analysis of how the myriad of ideas surrounding professionalism in journalism evolved.” Howard Tumber, City University London "A well-written and sophisticated account of professional journalism that will no doubt prove invaluable to those working in areas such as media sociology, journalism and media studies." MIATable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 1 Paths to Professionalism 19 2 The Dilemmas of Professional Autonomy 43 3 The Ambiguities of Professional Journalism 73 4 Questioning Professional Journalism 94 5 The Professional Logic of Journalism 121 6 Professionalism and Media Patrimonialism 149 7 The Globalization of Professional Cultures 174 8 Post-Professional Journalism? 202 Conclusion: Reinventing Professionalism 222 References 234 Index 263

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Book SynopsisWhat role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the most challenging issues confronting the news media today. In this timely and provocative book, Stuart Allan introduces the key concept of citizen witnessing' in order to rethink familiar assumptions underlying traditional distinctions between the amateur' and the professional' journalist. Particular attention is focused on the spontaneous actions of ordinary people caught-up in crisis events transpiring around them who feel compelled to participate in the making of news. In bearing witness to what they see, they engage in unique forms of journalistic activity, generating firsthand reportage eyewitness accounts, video footage, digital photographs, Tweets, blog posts frequently making a vital contribution to news coverage. Drawing on a wide range of examples to illustrate his argument, Allan considers citizen witnessingTrade Review"This combination of historic contextualization, theoretical analysis, empirical research, and news case studies (citizen and journalist) makes what could have been an impenetrable academic text, a lively, inspiring, and thoughtful read accessible to scholars and students alike." Harvard’s International Journal of Press / Politics "It’s difficult to find fault with (this) book. I hope that it will change the way academics and the wider populous use the various terms associated with what has generally been labelled or mislabelled as citizen journalism and that the term citizen witnessing, as Allan conceptualises it, takes hold." Digital Journalism "Drawing on a wide range of relevant work, Allan shrewdly rethinks the idea of the “citizen journalist” by examining the “journalist as citizen” as well as the “citizen as accidental journalist”. Allan’s intelligent analysis of both classic and bang-up-to-date examples makes this a key contribution to understanding how journalism should best develop." John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London "An important book that moves the current debate about the future of journalism into a new domain. A must-read for journalism scholars, students and practitioners alike." Pacific Journalism Review 'Stuart Allan reminds us "'war zones’ are also people’s homes." He critically documents how mobile and digital tools in the hands of billions around the world have opened up a radicalizing public service of “citizen witnessing” – a phenomenon that is invigorating journalism and forcing democratic (and not so democratic) institutions to greater accountability and responsibility.' Susan Moeller, University of Maryland 'Allan's Citizen Witnessing invites readers to think more deeply about the everyday materialities that define acts of citizen journalism in times of crisis, the very real risks and losses it can entail, and the reasons why we will continue to rely on the courage of its documentarians, and the contingencies of happenstance they face, in the years to come. Citizen Witnessing will be essential reading in journalism studies and beyond.' Carrie Rentschler, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements page vi 1 'Accidental Journalism' 1 2 The Journalist as Professional Observer 26 3 Bearing Witness, Making News 56 4 Witnessing Crises in a Digital Era 92 5 News, Civic Protest and Social Networking 120 6 WikiLeaks: Citizen as Journalist, Journalist as Citizen 152 7 'The Global Village of Images' 174 Notes 207 References 220 Index 246

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Book SynopsisJournalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth in this timely new text, drawing on the most extensive ethnographic fieldwork in American newsrooms since the 1970s.Trade Review"One of the finest and more in-depth portrayals of the struggle of newspapers to reinvent themselves."Digital Journalism"Ryfe offers compelling evidence that the success of new forms of public interaction - social media, blogs, crowdsourcing, data mining, etc - can, and are, mobilising local communities in the interests of greater transparency and accountability. He identifies a key role for journalists in this process: "Crowds need people who can catalyze the community, organize its work in granular form and put the pieces together when finished." And although he accepts that there are some journalists, maybe the majority, who will find it difficult to accept this new gatekeeping role, he is adamant: this is the future, whether they like it or not." Times Higher Education"This is a book which demands attention within the media industry and with all those interested in the development of society in a changing social era."Orange Standard "For all our academic debates about what journalism should do to survive in the digital age, David Ryfe has done the invaluable research needed to have this discussion in the first place: he looked at what journalists do to make it work, and why." Mark Deuze, Indiana University "David Ryfe has written an accessible and thoughtful book about US press journalism as it faces the drawn-out challenge of finding new business models in the face of the digital revolution. With its first-person style and lively ethnographic detail, it is written to appeal to a new generation of students facing many professional uncertainties." Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow "'There will always be newspapers,' journalists told David Ryfe a half dozen years ago. Now they are not so sure what that could possibly mean, as Ryfe shows in this study of a profession in crisis. A masterful portrait of three different newsrooms close-up, warts and all, this is an original, readable, and important work." Michael Schudson, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsDetailed Contents vi List of Figures viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Backstory 29 2 Habits 56 3 Investments 84 4 Defi nitions 114 5 The Future 138 6 Worries 167 Conclusion 195 Notes 199 References 202 Index 217

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life. His unconventional account decenters professional journalism from its central role in providing information to the people and reconceives it as part of a broader set of media practices that work together to represent the public. The result is a sensitive study of the relationship between media and society that sheds light on the past, present and future of news and public life. The book demonstrates clearly that the media have always been deeply embedded in social, economic, and political institutions and structures. Large transformations and historical shifts are brought to life in the book through closer study of key moments of change such as the rise of liberal political institutions, the market revolution, the industrial revolution, bureaucratization and professionalization, globalization, and the ongoing digital Trade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015"The Media and Public Life is a masterpiece of media history, a lively, sensible story of memorable moments involving the press, politics, and public. John Nerone�s definitive social and institutional account will guide everyone from beginners to experts studying communication media at the core of late modern life."Kevin Barnhurst, University of Leeds"What difference do the media make in public life? All the difference in the world, according to this valuable and highly readable book by one of the leading US communication historians. The Media and Public Life is vintage Nerone: Smart, insightful and creatively formulated, it provocatively turns the conventional understanding of journalism upside-down, reintegrates journalism into the neighboring contexts from which it gets routinely separated, and offers us a nuanced and highly satisfying engagement with why the news media matter and why we should ensure that they continue to so so."Barbie Zelizer, University of PennsylvaniaTable of Contents•Contents •Introduction •1 The printer's newspaper and the national public sphere •2 The editor's newspaper and the partisan public sphere •3 The commercial public sphere •4 The industrial media and the culture industries •5 Institutionalization, the professional media and the expert public sphere •6 The late modern press, the digital media, and the network public •Conclusion: Coming to judgment on public intelligence •References •Index

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Book SynopsisIn the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We recognize the power shift instinctively but, in our attempts to understand it, we keep using conceptual and theoretical models that are not changing fast, that are barely changing at all, that are laid over from the past. Journalism remains one of the main sites of communication power, an expanded space where citizens, protesters, PR professionals, tech developers and hackers can directly shape the news. Adrienne Russell reports on media power from one of the most vibrant corners of the journalism field, the corner where journalists and activists from countries around the world cross digital streams and end up updating media practices and strategies. Russell demonstrates the way the relationship between digitaTrade Review"Journalism has always overlapped with activism, and certainly does so today. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell focuses on this overlap and shows how small groups of progressives around causes like Occupy Wall Street are trying to connect activism, technology, and journalism to develop new forms of media aimed not at covering the world, but at changing it." Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford �Journalists have traditionally been cast as storytellers, but emerging technologies embed them into stories in ways that radicalize the affective nature of their involvement with events in the making. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell reconsiders the place of journalists in developing stories, and challenges the traditional dogma of objectivity, thus helping us reimagine the meaning of journalism in contemporary and future societies. Compellingly presented, elegantly written, and deeply original, this is a credo for enlightenment through journalism.� Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of Contents Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Networks Chapter 3: Tools Chapter 4: Practice Chapter 5: Power Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means.Trade Review"In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, David Ryfe demonstrates how journalism is deeply shaped by its relations to other institutions of public life. Journalism and the Public is an important contribution to the international comparative study of news." Rodney Benson, New York University "A picture of the public and its relationship with journalism has held us captive. In this excellent book, David Ryfe sets us free. Writing with clarity and verve, he shows that while the relationship varies in response to pressures from state, market, and civil society, a connection between journalism and the public is everywhere at the heart of the profession and what it aims to accomplish." Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of OxfordTable of Contents Table of Contents Introduction1 The Tradition A New Approach Plan of the Book Chapter 1 Theory Publics Journalism Journalism and the Public Chapter 2 Emergence Early Cases The Development of the American Field The Field of French Journalism The Form of News Conclusion Chapter 3 Outside the West History Markets The Chinese Field of Journalism Investigative Journalism Conclusion Chapter 4 The Journalistic Imagination Normative Accounts Journalists Should Tell the Truth Journalists Should Build Community Journalists Should Foster Deliberative Conversation What Should Journalists Do? Chapter 5 Journalism and Change A Recap Mapping Change Time and Change Persistence Conclusion Chapter 6 Moving Forward What We Know What We Do Not Know Responses Networked Journalism and Democracy References

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Book SynopsisThe public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means.Trade Review"In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, David Ryfe demonstrates how journalism is deeply shaped by its relations to other institutions of public life. Journalism and the Public is an important contribution to the international comparative study of news." Rodney Benson, New York University "A picture of the public and its relationship with journalism has held us captive. In this excellent book, David Ryfe sets us free. Writing with clarity and verve, he shows that while the relationship varies in response to pressures from state, market, and civil society, a connection between journalism and the public is everywhere at the heart of the profession and what it aims to accomplish." Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisFor successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders' debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant upon a candidate's ability to dramatically but authentically impart a strong individual identity.In this innovative analysis, Geoffrey Craig looks at the interrogative exchanges between politicians and journalists. The power struggles and evasions in these encounters often leave the public exasperated, but it is the politicians' negotiation of these struggles that determines success. Drawing on analyses of the language and performances of leaders such as Barack Obama and David Cameron, Craig examines the particular kinds of interactions that occur across political interviews, debates, conferences, and talk shows. The political games that take place between politicians and journalists, he argues, constitute theTrade Review"How politicians perform seems to matter as much as what they claim to believe in. Crucial to the success of politicians� performances is media representation. Geoffrey Craig�s analysis of this process of making political subjectivities visible is both highly perceptive and rigorously systematic. This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the cultural sociology of political performance." Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds "Geoffrey Craig�s study of broadcast political performance is a welcome addition to an expanding literature on the mediation of political communication and journalism. His cases and analyses will be essential reading for students of political communication in the age of mediation." Brian McNair, Queensland University of TechnologyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 9 Chapter 1 Mediated Political Performance 16 Chapter 2 Political Games 36 Chapter 3 Political Interviews 58 Chapter 4 Leaders' Debates 83 Chapter 5 Press Conferences 108 Chapter 6 Current Affairs Forum Television 132 Chapter 7 Political Celebrity Interviews 154 Conclusion 178 References 189 Index 209

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Book SynopsisFor successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders' debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant upon a candidate's ability to dramatically but authentically impart a strong individual identity.In this innovative analysis, Geoffrey Craig looks at the interrogative exchanges between politicians and journalists. The power struggles and evasions in these encounters often leave the public exasperated, but it is the politicians' negotiation of these struggles that determines success. Drawing on analyses of the language and performances of leaders such as Barack Obama and David Cameron, Craig examines the particular kinds of interactions that occur across political interviews, debates, conferences, and talk shows. The political games that take place between politicians and journalists, he argues, constitute theTrade Review"How politicians perform seems to matter as much as what they claim to believe in. Crucial to the success of politicians� performances is media representation. Geoffrey Craig�s analysis of this process of making political subjectivities visible is both highly perceptive and rigorously systematic. This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the cultural sociology of political performance." Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds "Geoffrey Craig�s study of broadcast political performance is a welcome addition to an expanding literature on the mediation of political communication and journalism. His cases and analyses will be essential reading for students of political communication in the age of mediation." Brian McNair, Queensland University of TechnologyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 9 Chapter 1 Mediated Political Performance 16 Chapter 2 Political Games 36 Chapter 3 Political Interviews 58 Chapter 4 Leaders' Debates 83 Chapter 5 Press Conferences 108 Chapter 6 Current Affairs Forum Television 132 Chapter 7 Political Celebrity Interviews 154 Conclusion 178 References 189 Index 209

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Book SynopsisA grassroots tour of small-town American newspapers, and the people who write, edit, and produce them.Trade Review"[Emus Loose in Egnar is an] engaging account of local journalism outside the major urban hubs. Without the muscle of a big-city newspaper—or the benefit of working at arm's length from public officials and advertisers—the passionate lunatics who put out America's small-town weeklies labor to keep local politicians honest while coping with anger, threats, pleading, exhaustion, poverty and, often, instead of gratitude, cold shoulders from neighbors on the checkout line at the IGA."—Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal"Very occasionally under threat of violence, more often facing social isolation or financial pressure, these rural journalists' devotion to truth-telling keeps the First Amendment alive and communities connected in grassroots America."—Kirkus"A read through this rather gentle, inquisitive look at small-town weekly newspapers could be beneficial to your health. It may even lower your big city blood pressure."—Jonathan Rickard, New York Journal of Books“Spiced up with rich portraits of curmudgeons, quirky editors, and pugnacious reporters, Muller’s compelling and endearing defense of small town journalism proves the value of thinking globally while writing locally.”—ForeWord Magazine “Readers of this book, which is a rare combination of important and entertaining, will be surprised to discover how much small-towners have to teach the rest of us about life, and how much their local weekly newspapers have to teach big-city news media about survival.”—Bill Geist, correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and best-selling author of Way Off the Road: Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America“Emus Loose in Egnar is what Mark Twain might have written if he had taken better care of himself and lived long enough to meet the collection of loners and lunatics in this book. I laughed until I cried, because I have been there.”—Richard Reeves, author of Daring Young Men and the founding editor of the Phillipsburg (NJ) Free PressTable of ContentsAcknowlegmentsPrologue1. Everything Old Is New Again2. Crusaders3. Curmudgeons4. Too Close for Comfort5. This Town Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us 6. All the Names Unfit to Print7. Never Speak Ill of the Dead8. School Sports: Holy Hyperbole!9. They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore10. Coming HomeBibliography

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Book SynopsisRing Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner’s journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate.Trade Review"It's good to have the lost treasure of Ring Lardner the journalist back with us again. At long last."—Patrick T. Reardon, Chicago Tribune"A godsend."—Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly"[The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner] should be required reading for sports journalists who want to know the roots of their profession."—Ed Sherman, Poynter“This book is an absolute jewel. I not only want to read all of it again; I want to take it on a car date. Ron Rapoport has contributed a masterful collection to the world of sports and literature.”—Dan Jenkins “Ring Lardner was brilliant—a great newspaper columnist and an even greater short story writer. If you know his work, you’ll love this anthology; if you don’t know his work, prepare to be entertained by one of the funniest, most original voices America has ever produced.”—Dave Barry “It’s always great to have more Lardner, and here is a fine new trove of him.”—Roy Blount Jr.“This book is a boon to fans and scholars of Lardner's work alike. I applaud the smart, well-informed introductions and the careful scholarship throughout. Then there is the genius of Lardner himself to savor. This is an important contribution to Lardner studies.”—Richard Layman, author, publisher, and coeditor of Ring W. Lardner: A Bibliography Table of ContentsForeword by James Lardner Introduction A Note to Readers Ring Lardner Tells His Sad, Sad Story to the World 1. Getting Started South Bend Has Cause to Be Proud of Athletic Record the Past Year Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 1) Memoirs of a Baseball Scribe (Part 2) Twenty-Six Cubs Will Be Taken on Southern Journey The Peerless Leader Takes Charge Record Crowd Opens Forbes Field P.L.’s Team Leads Arabella to the Altar Pullman Pastimes: Frank Schulte Is His Own Entertainer Pullman Pastimes: Dawson’s Reform Credited to Two Cubs The Rustlers Go Marching Through Georgia 2. Baseball The First Game Ring’s All-Stars Peaches Graham: Nine Men in One Ty Cobb’s Inside Baseball Ping Bodie’s Monologue Matty Mordecai Brown: The Reporter’s Friend Noisy John Kling Casting Stones with Rollie Zeider Casey in the Field How to Pitch to Babe Ruth Baseball Poems The World Serious 1909 Exhausted Tigers Extend Series 1912 The Tears of Christy Mathewson 1915 A Plea for Help A Rainy Day in Philadelphia 1916 Your Correspondent Sizes Up the Series Lardner Story Starts as Verse, Turns to Prose as Fattens Purse Inning by Inning with the Red Sox and Robins Nothing Happened 1917 Report from Behind Enemy Lines The Modern Voltaire 1918 18 Holes 1919 A Hot Tip from the Umpire Kid’s Strategy Goes Amuck as Jake Doesn’t Die A Dirty Finger on the Ball 1920 No Need to Bribe Brooklyn Ring Splits Double-Header 1921 Lardner Hitting 1., Peaved at Weatherman Scribes Saved from Overflow of Brains 1922 The Most Important World Series in History The Fur Coat Is Already Bought Mr. Lardner Corrects a Wrong Impression It Looks Bad for the Three Little Lardner Kittens Yanks Lose, But Lardner Kittens Spared 1923 Fans Agrog as Series Opens Only One Team Could Lose that Game 1925 Blizzards and Politics Hit Pirate Punch 1927 Ring Hears the Game He Is Seeing Some Final Thoughts on the Game Oddities of Bleacher Bugs Kill the Umpire Why Ring Stopped Covering Baseball Br’er Rabbit Ball 3. Ring Goes to War A War Ballad Why I Can’t Fight A Free Trip to Europe A Message to Sec. Baker Daddy’s Alibi Ring Hears Government Plans to Scare Mexico Serve Your Country with a Minimum of Effort A Good Tip to Friend Al E’en War So Grim Refuses to Dim Humor of Him A Ball Game in France Setting Out for the Front On Being Bombed A Letter to Home Back in Les Etats Unis What’s the Matter with Kaiser Bill? Wake Travel Guide (European Branch) The Do-Without Club Ring Can’t Smile at War’s End 4. Football The Perils of Being a Football Writer Michigan vs. Harvard: A Personal Odyssey A Letter How I’ll Get That Story A Persunal Appeal A Friend Indeed Perseverance Wins He Has It All Planned Out A Fresh Guy Where There’s Real Sport Please Don’t Go and Ruin It All Blue Monday at Michigan Wolverines Off for East Today; Big Squad to Go Yost’s Squad Loses Outfit; Railroad Fails to Drop Off Baggage, Handicapping Workout Yost’s Cripples Meet Harvard in East Today Luck Favors Harvard in Beating Michigan 5. Politics If You Don’t Know What He Writes About You Have Nothing on Him Ring Takes the “Pomp” Out of Pompey Key-Noting with Lardner The United States of Old Glory Ring Is Through with Conventions But Fielder Jones is O.K. Me for Mayor A Taxing Situation Starve with Hoover or Feast with Lardner Ring May Run with Debs on Prison Ticket Ring Says the Race Is Between Himself and Cobb It Looks Like a Stampede to Lardner Vice=Presidency Dressing for the Inauguration Is Some Job Simplicity Reigns in Washington Harding Inaugural Is Simps’ Delight Presidential Golf Ring Organizes the Ku Klux Klan No Navy=No Fight War With Japan May Have to Be Fought with Postcards Coolidge Awaits Word of Landslide Lodge Nearly Achieves Acquaintance with Ring Double-Header in Cleveland Finds Gaps in Bleachers Ring Will Run Under One Condition Women Held to Blame for Long Session Ring Defends His Socks Ring Wants Bryan Lured Away Democrats Are Out to Set New World Record Ring Knew It All Along Ring’s New Tax Bill to Include Congressmen Why I Will Vote Socialist 6. Boxing An Evening Accumulating Culture Dempsey vs. Willard Jess’ Stomach Shouldn’t Be Worried Ring’s Funny Stories Make the Operators Sick Lardner Hears Peace Trio Will Officiate at Bout After Seeing Jess in the Movies, Ring Wonders How Jack Can Win Lardner Won on Allies and Picks Willard Now When I Picked Jess to Win I Thought He’d Have Two Eyes to See With Dempsey vs. Carpentier Getting to Know Geos. Ring Will Bear Up No Matter Who Wins Ring Gives Dry Statistics on Preparations for Fight Ring Uses Strategy to Buzz Frenchman Lots of “Trebles” at Carpentier’s Ringside Everything Goes When You Hit Dempsey’s Camp A Surprise Party for Jack Ring Sizes Up Critics from Europe How to Overcome the Shock of Battle Ring Is Glad He Wasn’t in the Ring Dempsey vs. Firpo They Ought to Spell It Furpo Theys No Doubt Wild Bull Can Hit If Jack Lets Him No More Salutes from Firpo to Sid Lardner Sees the Wild Bull Firpo Takes the Day Off Ring Discovers What’s Wrong with His Feet Ring Gives Dempsey Some Advice Lardner in Great Shape for Wordy Battle A Word from Bernard Shaw It Was a FIGHT Dempsey vs. Tunney Monosyllables to Jack’s Jaw Best Fight of Tunney’s Career Found Dempsey at His Worst 7. The Noble Experiment 1919 Prohibition Blues Some Recipes with Kicks An Ounce of Prevention The Benefits of Prohibition Oh, Shoot! 8. The America’s Cup and Other Sports Ring Can’t Stand the Excitement of Yacht Racing Yachts Sail like a Snail with Paralysis The Closest Race We’ve Slept Though Yet The Race Is Between a Snail and a Hearse Too Slow to Give a Kick Learn to Play Lip Golf Ring Reviews His Golf Season A Perfect Day at Saratoga Tips on Horses Ring Discovers Polo How to Stork Big Game How Winners Quit Winners Why It’s Called a Dog’s Life Ring’s Sensitive Nature Recoils at Hockey With Rod and Gun 9. Family Life Family Poems The New Plaything To the New One To the Latest Help Wanted The Eternal Question Exit Madge A Mysterious Antipathy Parting Exalted Above His Fellows Declaration of Independence Welcome to Spring The Youngest One Breaks In Moving to the East Why Not a Husbands’ Union? It’s a Good Thing Birthdays Don’t Come Oftener Got a Radio in Your Home? Ring Loves His New Radio Ring’s Long Island Estate Opens to Visitors Ring’s Water Bill Is $1,643—and Nobody Drinks It The Latest Dope from Great Neck Ring Confused with Thunder Shower by Radio Fans Carpenter’s Concert Mars Ring’s Speech 10. On Journalism Journalism Poems Monday Come On, You Roseate Day West Town Storm This Afternoon To the Man Higher Up First Aid Valentines Dreaming A Plea for Mercy Another Plea for Mercy Office Secrets Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Conquering a Bad Habit Ring Wants a Day Off Voice of the People Mister Toastmaster and Gentlemen On the Scarcity of Paper for Newspapers A New System for Running Newspapers Going Back to Work 11. People, Places, and Pieces of Ring’s Mind Fifteen Cents Worth Starring in the Movies with Billie Burke Marry a Man or Caddy for Him Keep the Reform Fires Burning Automatic Writing Some Cigars Would Cure Any Smoker Have a Spelling Bee of Your Own Try Love Letters on Your Creditors Ring Observes the Miami Mermaids Ring Discloses His Beauty Secrets If You Ain’t in the Monday Opera Club, You Don’t Belong Ring Denies He Owes Chicago $50 A Cordial Greeting from Pola Swimming the Transit Channels Christmas Card From a Bottle Found in the Ocean With Rope and Gum 12. Parodies and Reviews Cubist Baseball The Spoon Rigoletto Lilac Time Mary MacLane and Her Passionate Male Quartette Madam Butterfly Was Some Insect Cinderella Ring Tells the Story of Snow White A Dog’s Tale Fifteen Rounds with Shakespeare and Tunney Your Broadway, Beau, and You Can Have It Heavy Da-Dee-Dough Boys Lyricists Strike Pay Dirt We’re All Sisters Under the Hide of Me 13. Buried Treasure and Night Letters Buried Treasure Night Letters Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMost famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn Reader is a rich collection of his stories and articles. Kahn's pieces present a vivid, turbulent, and intimate picture of more than half a century in American sport.Trade Review"Roger Kahn is all about words and a sensibility that respects athletes, especially baseball players, for their sublime skills, but especially for their love and dedication to their exacting sport. He is remorseless about racism, cruelty and hypocrisy, but above all appreciative of talent and integrity. . . . Spending a few hours with The Roger Kahn Reader is like a time-machine voyage back to a sports world of authentic heroes, colorful but not obnoxious characters, just causes, smart talk and love of the games. Roger Kahn helped create that world and reanimates it here for our pleasure."—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal"Nearly 70 years later, the universe may still yawn, but readers who grew up with Kahn will be very interested indeed in this collection that is nostalgic but not saccharine, moral but flawed. The Roger Kahn Reader compiles many of the author’s most successful attempts to lift the reader from the page and welcome them into a conversation amongst friends."—Hannah Mueller, Communication Booknotes QuarterlyPraise for Roger Kahn’s work: “Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business.”—The New York Review of Books “[Kahn writes] with an elegant authority that—without false sentiment or excessive nostalgia—puts certain elements of the diamond game’s good old days in clear and compelling perspective.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kahn weaves such personal information into his rich descriptions of thrilling regular-season, playoff and World Series games. And in doing so he endows the players, managers and owners with more dynamic dimensions than any baseball writer of his generation.”—Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsPreface by Roger Kahn Introduction by Bill Dwyre Part 1. An American Tragedy 1. A Death Without Sunlight: Jackie Robinson Jr.Esquire, November 1971 Part 2. When Eisenhower Reigned 2. Joe Black’s OdysseyNew York Herald Tribune, June 8, 1952 3. What White Big Leaguers Really Think of Negro PlayersOur Sports, June 1953 4. The Twilight of the GodsSports Illustrated, September 20, 1954 5. Baseball 1954Sports Illustrated, October 4, 1954 6. Here’s Tap DaySports Illustrated, November 22, 1954 7. Forget Something, Boys?Sports Illustrated, December 20, 1954 8. New York Proudly PresentsSports Illustrated, September 27, 1954 9. 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . & BingoSports Illustrated, October 11, 1954 10. Glory Day in ColumbusSports Illustrated, November 29, 1954 11. Alonzo, AlonzoSports Illustrated, January 10, 1955 12. Big Newk and His PsycheSport, August 1955 13. Early Wynn: The Story of a Hard LoserSport, March 1956 14. The Boswells of BaseballThe Nation, September 7, 1957 15. Stan Musial Is Baseball’s No. 1 CitizenSport, February 1958 16. Little Nellie’s a Man NowSport, April 1958 17. Rookie of the Year [Fiction]Cosmopolitan, June 1958 18. How the Other Half LivesSport, October 1958 19. The Crucial Part Fear Plays in SportSport, August 1959 Part 3. Changing Times 20. The Benching of a LegendSports Illustrated, September 12, 1960 21. Success and Ned IrishSports Illustrated, March 27, 1961 22. Baseball’s Secret Weapon: TerrorSports Illustrated, July 10, 1961 23. Pursuit of No. 60: The Ordeal of Roger MarisSports Illustrated, October 2, 1961 24. Robert Frost: A ReminiscenceThe Nation, February 9, 1963 25. The Time of the HustlerShow Magazine, October 1963 Part 4. Getting Closer 26. Writing SportsEsquire, August 1970 27. The Life and Hard Times of Jim BoutonEsquire, December 1970 28. The MickEsquire, May 1971 29. Roy EmersonEsquire, June 1971 30. Bob GibsonEsquire, July 1971 31. Scuba DivingEsquire, January 1974 32. A Shrine in BrooklynSports Illustrated, August 5, 1974 33. Cheer, Cheer for Old Ezra PoundEsquire, November 1974 34. The Good and Bad Times of Don KingEsquire, November 1975 35. George Foreman Is Down but Not OutEsquire, May 1976 36. Aspects of the GameSports Illustrated, August 16, 1976 37. A Baseball SketchbookSports Illustrated, August 23, 1976 38. Golden Triumphs, Tarnished DreamsSports Illustrated, August 30, 1976 39. Walter O’Malley in the SunshineNew York Times, January 9, 1978 40. Some Modest ProposalsNew York Times, February 13, 1978 41. The Joy of Bill VeeckNew York Times, April 3, 1978 42. Public RelationsNew York Times, July 31, 1978 43. Jim Lonborg at Thirty-SevenNew York Times, April 2, 1979 44. A Visit with Red SmithNotre Dame Magazine, December 1979 45. My Movie Option: Eight Years of StrikeoutsNew York Times, May 4, 1980 46. Lafleur (the Flower of Canada)Sport, December 1981 47. Dodger Verities Span the Seasons New York Times, October 6, 1985 Part 5. A New Millennium 48. Joe Black, 1924–2002: Hard Thrower, Soft HeartLos Angeles Times, May 18, 2002 49. Scorecard: Mind Over BatterSports Illustrated, December 8, 2003 50. A Few Moments with TSWBoston Red Sox Magazine, June 2007 51. Clem An Original Story

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Book SynopsisIn print at last, this collection of John Finerty’s letters and telegrams to his hometown newspaper, written from the field during Crook’s campaign, conveys the full extent of the reporter’s experience and observations during this time of great excitement and upheaval in the West.Trade Review“Marking a definitive contribution to the dual fields of frontier history and frontier journalism, John Finerty Reports the Sioux War assures that Finerty’s earlier, contemporaneous reporting of 1876 stands alongside his later work, War-Path and Bivouac, as a significant historical resource in its own right. Paul L. Hedren has dug deep into Finerty’s life and presents a well-rounded story of a news reporter working in the field at a time when journalism itself was still evolving the reporter’s role.”—Sandy Barnard, author of Photographing Custer’s Battlefield: The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen“Hedren’s contribution to the history of the Indian wars is not limited to his work in collecting and publishing Finerty’s newspaper accounts, though that collection affords us a timely view of the proceedings. In addition Hedren offers succinct interpretations that open each chapter of his book as they introduce the next grouping of Finerty missives. The up-to-the-minute coverage by Finerty and the cogent context and background offered by Hedren make for a powerful addition to our understanding of the Sioux war.”---Nebraska History“Under the careful and detailed work of a master editor, Finerty’s work finally emerges in its full glory.”—Great Plains Quarterly Research

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Book SynopsisDrawing on 4 decades of ""New York Times"" editorials, this book demonstrates the magnitude of the conflict between Native American and white European cultures as settlers and adventurers spread across the continent in the post-Civil War period. It provides perspectives on the public images of Natives and their place in a nation bent on expansion.

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