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Book SynopsisMedia Nation brings together some of the most exciting voices in media and political history to present fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics. Together, these contributors offer a field-shaping work that aims to bring the media back to the center of scholarship modern American history.Trade Review"An invaluable collection that advances important arguments while looking at the big picture of how American media, politics, and policy intersect. Media Nation promises to become a key text in the growing canon of modern American media history and political communication studies." * Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania *"Incredible as it seems, historians have largely left the history of twentieth-century U.S. media to others. In Media Nation, two leading political historians have gathered an impressive array of scholars who make up for lost time. Once you start reading, you won't want to touch that dial." * Brian Balogh, University of Virginia *

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Book SynopsisBarbara Gastel, physician and acclaimed medical journalist, has prepared an expanded, enhanced second edition of Health Writer''s Handbook. Fully updated, the latest edition of this trusted handbook has grown by nearly 100 pages, solidifying its reputation as a practical guide packed with specifics on how to write about health intelligently and with sensitivity (Nieman Reports). Examples of exemplary health writing now abound with insightful annotated comments. Medical Reporting for the Electronic Media (contributed by Tom Linden, M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) addresses health reporting for television, radio, and the Internet. Also new to this edition is coverage of legal matters in the retitled Ethical and Legal Issues chapter. Journalistic exercises bring chapters to a close giving the reader opportunities to apply the principles presented. Health Writer''s Handbook, Second Edition is a reference guide and textbook all in one, invaluable to eTable of ContentsContents:. Introduction. Part I: Finding Topics and Information. 1. Some Basics. 2. Books and Periodicals. 3. Government, Associations, and Other Institutions. 4. Researchers, Clinicians, Patients, and Others. 5. Online Resources. Part II: Preparing the Piece. 6. Evaluating Information. 7. Health-Writing Technique. 8. Genres of Health Writing. 9. Medical Reporting for the Electronic Media. 10. Sensitivity and Style. 11. Award Winners and Awards. Part III: Exploring Issues and Areas. 12. Ethical and Legal Issues. 13. Covering Key Realms. 14. Presenting Risk. Part IV: Pursuing a Career. 15. Career Options. 16. Professional Organizations. 17. Educational Opportunities. References: Sources Cited; Sources of Additional Help or Perspective. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Pulitzer is acknowledged as the most distinguished prize in journalism. This book illustrates the evolution of editorial writing over decades. Each entry contains the entire text of the prize-winning editorial from that year, and is preceded by an introduction from the editors.Table of ContentsContents new to this edition include:. 1994 R. Bruce Dold, Chicago Tribune 1995 Jeffrey Good, St. Petersburg Times (FL) 1996 Robert B. Semple, Jr., New York Times 1997 Michael Gartner, Daily Tribune (Ames, IA) 1998 Bernard L. Stein, Riverdale Press (NY) 1999 Editorial Board, New York Daily News 2000 John C. Bersia, Orlando Sentinel 2001 David Moats, Rutland Herald (VT) 2002 Alex Raksin and Bob Sipchen, Los Angeles Times 2003 Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune

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Book SynopsisThe spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations and partnerships that characterized the Crafts’ activism for the next thirty years.

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Book SynopsisIn July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas’s account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in another full issue.Trade Review“That the facts about Watergate are now as straight as they are, in spite of all official attempts to conceal them, is a tribute to Lukas's skill as a reporter and more broadly to the journalistic tradition he represents.” * New York Times Book Review *“Highly recommended for those with an insatiable fascination for the Watergate story. The author … shuns grandiloquent probing for deeper meanings while providing an almost minute-by-minute account of a cast of hundreds, interspersed with concise biographical vignettes.” * Foreign Affairs *“[A] model of measured judgment and of careful selection and synthesis … it is presented with such masterly narrative skill that one reads the old familiar story as if it were all new and fresh.” * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisJohn Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World and as champion of the communist movement in the United States.Trade ReviewThis is a work that I have been waiting twenty-five years to read. The first book-length study to seriously investigate, explicate, and analyze the prose of one of modern America's important yet neglected writers. * author of Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed *

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Book SynopsisPlayers, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts collects more than 130 sports columns and stories, written over three decades, to offer a smorgasbord of nostalgia and discovery—including the origin stories of some of today’s biggest names in sports—for fans in Ohio and beyond.Trade Review“Bob Hunter used his decades of experience on the sports beat to produce columns with depth and perspective. He didn’t just cover seasons, he covered eras. And his entertaining, authoritative writing reflects it.”

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Book SynopsisPlayers, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts collects more than 130 sports columns and stories, written over three decades, to offer a smorgasbord of nostalgia and discovery—including the origin stories of some of today’s biggest names in sports—for fans in Ohio and beyond.Trade Review“Bob Hunter used his decades of experience on the sports beat to produce columns with depth and perspective. He didn’t just cover seasons, he covered eras. And his entertaining, authoritative writing reflects it.”

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Book SynopsisExplores the origins of Chinese reportage (journalism) in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and develops an understanding of the aesthetics that governed the creation of this literature.Trade Review“Based on superior scholarship and written in a pleasant yet profound style, Charles A. Laughlin’s sensitive readings and surprising interpretations of little-known but highly intriguing texts open up important new vistas for all scholars of literature who oppose the restrictive concept of ‘univeral literary values’ and seek to replace it with methods that emphasize and bring out cultural and historical differences. By analyzing the aesthetics of reportage, Laughlin demonstrates that this unique and important genre of modern Chinese writing was much more than just a tool for political agitation but that it provided its substantial readership with a genuinely literary experience.”—Michel Hockx, SOAS, University of London“This is the first full-length English study of Chinese reportage, following its development from the turn of the century to the founding of the People’s Republic. Charles A. Laughlin delineates the genesis and transformation of a genre that had a powerful impact on the making of Chinese literary and political modernity, and he inquires into the treacherous terms by means of which Chinese writers sought to understand reality and its representation. Theoretically provocative and historically engaged, this book will be of tremendous significance for anyone interested in modern Chinese literature, history, journalism, and politics.”—David Der-wei Wang, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Frequently Cited Works Introduction 1. Travel: Writing a Way Out 2. Public Demonstrations: The Mise-en-Scene of History 3. Labor Reportage and the Factoryscape 4. War Correspondence I: Terror and the Wound 5. War Correspondence II: Guerrilla Landscapes 6. Socialist Reportage Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRecounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers’ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or “runners,” and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.Table of ContentsPrologue: “Shell Shock for News Nuts” | 1 1 “Serb Thug to New York . . . Kiss My Ash” | 5 2 “All Play, No Pay for Page Fix” | 16 3 “Ford to City: Drop Dead” | 39 4 “Cops Shoot Groom Dead” | 51 5 “N.J. Miss in a Fix Over Her Pics!” | 62 6 “2 Cops Shot During Traffic Stop” | 92 7 “Tracked Down and Busted in Pa. Woods” | 113 8 “Sports’ Worst Nightmare” | 123 9 “‘Mayday’ Last Call from Doomed Bravest at Ground Zero” | 143 10 “The Juice Is on the Loose: O.J. Simpson Leaves Jail after Posting $125,000 Bail” | 162 11 “Preppie Killer Robert Chambers Acts Like a ‘Dumb’ Doper” | 191 12 “Legend of Jim Leyritz’s Swing against Braves Spoiled by His Swigs” | 198 13 “If Spitzer Really Wore Socks in Bed, May Mean Fear of Intimacy: Sex Experts” | 234 14 “Ma Goes to Bat for Derek Jeter” | 253 15 “What to Tell Kids When Daddy Has Two Families” | 262 16 “Temple of Doom . . . Madoff Fleeced Fifth Avenue Synagogue” | 283 Glossary | 291 Notes | 293 Index | 299 Photographs follow page 152

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Book SynopsisRecounts the story of America’s last great newspaper war between the New York Daily News and the New York Post, as both papers’ long rivalry turned existential amid the rise of digital news. The story is told through the eyes of the reporters, or “runners,” and photographers who fought the war on the ground in cities across America.Table of ContentsPrologue: “Shell Shock for News Nuts” | 1 1 “Serb Thug to New York . . . Kiss My Ash” | 5 2 “All Play, No Pay for Page Fix” | 16 3 “Ford to City: Drop Dead” | 39 4 “Cops Shoot Groom Dead” | 51 5 “N.J. Miss in a Fix Over Her Pics!” | 62 6 “2 Cops Shot During Traffic Stop” | 92 7 “Tracked Down and Busted in Pa. Woods” | 113 8 “Sports’ Worst Nightmare” | 123 9 “‘Mayday’ Last Call from Doomed Bravest at Ground Zero” | 143 10 “The Juice Is on the Loose: O.J. Simpson Leaves Jail after Posting $125,000 Bail” | 162 11 “Preppie Killer Robert Chambers Acts Like a ‘Dumb’ Doper” | 191 12 “Legend of Jim Leyritz’s Swing against Braves Spoiled by His Swigs” | 198 13 “If Spitzer Really Wore Socks in Bed, May Mean Fear of Intimacy: Sex Experts” | 234 14 “Ma Goes to Bat for Derek Jeter” | 253 15 “What to Tell Kids When Daddy Has Two Families” | 262 16 “Temple of Doom . . . Madoff Fleeced Fifth Avenue Synagogue” | 283 Glossary | 291 Notes | 293 Index | 299 Photographs follow page 152

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Book SynopsisThe diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war's end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documentstheir live broadcastswere not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service fTable of ContentsForeword by Michael S. Sweeney | vii List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Army Terms | ix Introduction | 1 1. July 24 through August 3, 1944 | 13 2. August 4 through August 23, 1944 | 25 3. August 24 through September 14, 1944 | 47 4. September 16 through October 13, 1944 | 76 5. October 14 through November 30, 1944 | 105 6. December 1 through December 31, 1944 | 134 Text of James Cassidy Broadcasts, December 21 through 29, 1944 | 165 Appendix: Significant American Correspondents Mentioned in Text | 183 Acknowledgments | 189 Notes | 191 Index | 201

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Book SynopsisExamines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David La‘amea Kamanakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua in English- and Hawaiian-language newspapers, books, travelogues, and other materials published during his reign as Hawai‘i’s mō‘ī (sovereign) from 1874 to 1891.

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Book SynopsisExamines the American, international, and Hawaiian representations of David Laamea Kamanakapu Mahinulani Nalaiaehuokalani Lumialani Kalkaua in English- and Hawaiian-language newspapers, books, travelogues, and other materials published during his reign as Hawaii's m (sovereign) from 1874 to 1891.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kluge's search for the maelstroms and fixed points of the world spirit, for drunken elephants and the seven forces of buoyancy, is exhilarating, interesting, philosophical--a vade mecum to be read several times over."--M nchner Feuilleton

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Book SynopsisThe last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive reference source on journalism studies for students, researchers, and academics The digital era has seen significant social, economic, and technological change in journalism, invigorating journalism studies as an academic discipline. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies is a unique reference guide and resource on the rapidly growing and evolving field of journalism scholarship, providing credible and timely information on its key concepts, theories, and methodologies. The official encyclopedia of the International Communication Association (ICA), this invaluable text includes more than 250 entries that form a comprehensive overview of the study of journalism as a distinct field. Coverage of important historical developments and the current state of journalism forms a solid base of essential knowledge while critical insights into news media economics, ethical and legal issues, and journalism practices and platforms address coTrade Review"Libraries in institutions that have journalism schools and departments may find it most useful, but it is also relevant to those with communication and/or writing studies programs." - CHOICE Connect January 2020Table of ContentsVolume I The International Communication Association vii About the Editors ix Contributors xi Alphabetical List of Entries Thematic List of Entries Introduction Journalism Studies A– Volume II Journalism Studies Volume III Journalism Studies –Z Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I: A Foundation for Making Ethical Decisions 1 1 Why Ethics Matters in Journalism 3 Our society needs news professionals who do the right thing • Contemporary journalists are keenly aware of the ethics of the profession, dealing frequently with ethics questions. • In a profession that cannot be regulated because of the First Amendment, responsible journalists adhere voluntarily to high standards of conduct. • The goal of this book and course is to teach you how to make ethically sound decisions. • Discussing case studies in class is crucial to learning the decision-making process. • The digital era, which has radically changed the way the news is gathered and delivered, has provoked controversy over whether ethics should radically change as well. • Confronted with a daily deluge of information, the public depends on ethical journalists for news that can be trusted. Point of View: A “Tribal Ferocity” Enforces the Code (John Carroll) 2 Ethics: The Bedrock of a Society 17 An introduction to terms and concepts in an applied-ethics course • Ethics is about discerning between right and wrong and then doing what is right. • Ancient societies developed systems of ethics that still influence human behavior. • Though often related, ethics and law differ; law prescribes minimum standards of conduct, and ethics prescribes exemplary conduct. • A member of a society absorbs its ethical precepts through a process of socialization. • Our value system – based on the things we prize most – influences how we make moral choices. • An ethical dilemma demands such a moral choice: a person may have to violate one ethical principle to fulfill another. 3 The News Media’s Role in Society 25 The profession has matured and accepted social responsibility • Journalists generally agree that their fundamental ethical principles are to seek truth, serve the public, and maintain independence from the people they report on. • Journalism, like other professions and institutions, owes society a moral duty called social responsibility. • In the 1940s, the Hutchins Commission defined journalism’s social responsibility: to provide reliable information for the community. • An ethical awakening occurred in journalism during the decade beginning in the mid-1970s. • During this period of reform, many news organizations codified their principles, first addressing conflicts of interest and then refining news-coverage practices. • Today’s journalism reflects decades of rising professionalism, but the transition to the digital era presents new challenges. Point of View: The Essential Pursuit of Truth (Martin Baron) Point of View: Decision-Making in the Digital Age (James M. Naughton) 4 For Journalists, a Clash of Moral Duties 43 Responsibilities as professionals and as human beings can conflict • In the abstract, journalists should avoid becoming involved with the events and the people they cover. • However, certain situations require journalists to decide whether they should step out of their observer role and become participants. • In those situations, guidelines can help journalists reach sound decisions about whether to intervene. Point of View: Journalists Are Humans, Too (Halle Stockton) Case Study: The Journalist as a Witness to Suffering Case Study: Protester Is Beaten; Reporter Steps In 5 The Public and the Media: Love and Hate 63 The goal for the journalist should be respect, not popularity • Even as the news media mature and accept social responsibility, the public is increasingly hostile, and that is documented in surveys. • As a journalist, you should be aware of this hostility and the likely reasons for it. • You should treat the audience with respect and take complaints seriously; stripping away the rancor, you might find useful lessons. • The public’s hostility has to be put in perspective; it may not be as bad as it seems. Point of View: Journalism, Seen From the Other Side (Jane Shoemaker) Case Study: A Journalist’s Trial by Social Media 6 How the ‘Trump Effect’ Challenged Journalism 77 The news media had never dealt with a president like No. 45 • As a candidate and president (2015 - 2021), Donald Trump vigorously tested journalism’s habits, tools, and tenets. • Modifying their reporting practices, journalists adapted to Trump much as earlier generations had adapted to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. But the transition was not a smooth one. • To deal with a multitude of false statements, news organizations created fact-checking units and debated whether to use the word lie. • Coverage of Trump and his administration ranged from hard-hitting investigations to snarky commentary that tended to confirm critics’ allegations of bias. Point of View: Impartial Journalism’s Enduring Value (Thomas Kent) 7 Applying Four Classic Theories of Ethics 99 Ancient philosophy can be a factor in the decision-making process • The strengths and weaknesses of four classic ethical theories in the context of editors’ decisions to publish government secrets. • Rule-based thinking – doing the right thing, even if there are consequences. • Ends-based thinking – choosing to do what brings the most good to the most people. • The Golden Rule – treating other people the way you would want to be treated. • Aristotle’s Golden Mean – finding a moderate solution when the extremes won’t work. • The practice of journalism typically blends rule-based thinking and endsbased thinking. 8 Using a Code of Ethics as a Decision Tool 109 Written professional standards can be a valuable guide • Ethics codes in journalism trace their origins to the early twentieth century, as some editors put word-of-mouth standards into writing. • Codes adopted by professional associations of journalists are voluntary; codes adopted by news outlets for the direction of their staffs are enforceable. • Codes can be useful as a part of the decision process, not as a substitute for that process. • The Society of Professional Journalists’ 2014 revision of its code of ethics is a model for the profession. Its four guiding principles are: seek truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently, and be accountable and transparent. 9 Making Moral Decisions You Can Defend 117 How to apply critical thinking and a decision template • A careful decision-making process draws on the practical skills of journalism: gathering facts, analyzing them, and making judgments. • Critical thinking – thoughtful analysis – is an essential component of the decision process. • A step-by-step template can guide you to a better decision. • You must test your decision to see if it can be defended. • In this course, approach the case studies as a laboratory exercise in decision-making. Point of View: Avoid These Rationalizations (Michael Josephson) Case Study: Deciding Whether to Identify a CIA Agent Part II: Putting Journalism Ethics to Work 131 10 Getting the Facts Right and Being Fair 133 SPJ’s guiding principle of seeking truth and reporting it • Accuracy and fairness are journalism’s fundamental ethical values. • The digital era, with its emphasis on speed, entices reporters to take shortcuts and, thus, to risk mistakes. • Journalists have to be alert for hoaxes, especially on the web. • Problematic trends in the newsroom: less specialization, less editing. Point of View: Declaring What You Won’t Report (Craig Silverman) Case Study: A Story of Rape at Mr. Jefferson’s University Case Study: A Double Disaster at the Sago Mine Case Study: Richard Jewell: He Really Was a Hero Case Study: The Football Star’s Fictitious Girlfriend 11 Showing Empathy for People in the News 167 SPJ’s guiding principle of minimizing harm • Recognizing that the truth can hurt, journalists should weigh the information they are reporting against the harm it can be expected to cause. Sometimes that calculation might lead to a decision not to publish a detail of marginal relevance or possibly an entire story or photograph. • Requests from the public to “unpublish” archival content create an ethical dilemma: a desire to protect the historical record versus consideration of the people hurt by that record, especially when it is flawed. • Reporters should take particular care when interviewing children and survivors of a tragedy, or when reporting on suicides. • Journalists should be aware that their presence can be viewed as intrusive. Case Study: The Death of a Boy Point of View: Reporting a Fact, Causing Harm (William F. Woo) 12 Avoiding Conflicts: Appearances Count 183 SPJ’s guiding principle of acting independently • In an actual conflict of interest, journalists allow self‐interest, or a loyalty to any other person or organization, to take precedence over their duty to the audience. • Because a conflict of interest gives the audience reason to doubt the journalist’s loyalty, it undermines credibility. • An appearance of a conflict of interest can damage credibility even if the journalist’s reporting is honest. • By following reasonable guidelines, you can avoid most conflicts, actual or apparent. • Identifying situations that commonly lead to conflicts. Case Study: A Reporter’s Son Joins a Foreign Army Case Study: A Journalist’s Gifts to the Clinton Foundation Case Study: The Columnist’s Other Job Case Study: Carrying a Torch, Stirring Debate 13 Lifting the Curtain on How Journalism Is Done 209 SPJ’s guiding principle of being accountable and transparent • News organizations should correct their mistakes promptly, prominently, and clearly. • News organizations should have a system to invite, receive, and act on inquiries and complaints about news coverage. • News organizations should be willing to explain and discuss how they cover the news. • The audience can be a partner in reporting the news, but journalists have a duty to verify all user-generated content. • There are limits to journalistic transparency, including the question of whether reporters’ personal opinions should be revealed. Point of View: A Digital Dialogue With Readers (Mark Bowden) Case Study: Roughed Up at Recess 14 Navigating Social Media’s Uneven Terrain 227 Connecting with the audience while maintaining impartiality • Using social media helps journalists report their stories and promote them. However, journalists’ comments about people and events in the news can damage their credibility and that of their news organizations. • Social media policies are a common source of tension in newsrooms, and enforcement of those policies has led to staff protests. Point of View: Race, Gender, Social Media, and Power (Ingrid Sturgis) Point of View: A Journalist’s Duty (Bob Steele) Case Study: A Reporter’s Tweet Hits a Sour Note 15 Covering a Diverse, Multicultural Society 247 An ethical duty to be inclusive in news coverage and in the newsroom • Covering society’s diversity is an ethical responsibility, because news organizations have a duty to cover the entire community. • Careful, sensitive reporting is required to analyze the complex issues of racial and ethnic conflicts. • Journalists face challenges in their efforts to provide knowledgeable coverage of cultures other than their own. • Reporters who cover new immigrants are confronting ethics issues such as protecting the identity of sources who are not documented. Point of View: Gaining Respect by Showing Respect (Joann Byrd) 16 Dealing With Sources of Information 265 The fine line between getting close and too close • Ethics issues arise in reporters’ efforts to cultivate sources while maintaining independence from those sources. • If a journalist agrees to protect a source who provides information on condition of anonymity, honoring that agreement is a solemn ethical duty. • Journalists must avoid placing their sources in any kind of jeopardy. • Beat reporting requires reporters to balance their relationships with newsmakers whom they depend on for information but also may have to report on critically. • Showing copy to sources and other situations in which ethics issues arise in source relationships. Point of View: Sometimes, Different Rules Apply (Jeffrey Fleishman) Case Study: The Strange Intercept at “The Intercept” 17 Making News Decisions About Privacy 285 The public may need to know what individuals want hidden • Journalists often must decide between the public’s legitimate need to have certain information and the desire for privacy by the individuals involved. • Although there are certain legal restraints on publicizing private information, most decisions are made on the basis of ethics rather than law. • A three-step template, weighing the value of the information to the public against the degree of harm to the subject, can aid decision-making in privacy cases. • Reporting situations in which privacy is central to decision-making. Case Study: Tracing the Source of Web Comments Case Study: Identifying a 13-Year-Old Rape Victim 18 Making Decisions About Offensive Content 305 The conflict between reflecting reality and respecting the audience • Journalists often have to decide whether to publish or broadcast content that could offend a significant element of the audience. • Offensive content falls into three categories: perceived insensitivity, offensive words, and offensive images. • A two-step process can help you make decisions, weighing the content’s news value against how offensive it is. • Although the internet empowers the audience to be heard, news organizations are struggling to find ways to curb incivility, and some are discontinuing online comments. Case Study: A Vulgar List in the News Case Study: A Killer Records a Video of His Murders 19 Deception: A Risky, Controversial Tool 321 When values collide: Lying while seeking the truth • To decide whether to use a deceptive reporting practice, you first must acknowledge the deceit and not rationalize it. • Before engaging in undercover reporting – pretending to be someone else – you must meet exacting standards. • There are other situations, short of undercover, in which journalists could deceive or could be perceived as deceiving. • There is a consensus in the profession that a journalist should never deceive the audience or the journalist’s colleagues. Point of View: The Truth About Deception (Brooke Kroeger) Case Study: Rumsfeld’s Q&A With the Troops Case Study: Spying on the Mayor in a Chat Room 20 Ethics Issues in Visual and Audio Journalism 343 Seeking truth with the camera or microphone while minimizing harm • The public, aware how easy digital manipulation can be, must be able to trust the truthfulness of the news media’s photography and audio reports. • News organizations have adopted standards to ensure the integrity of their photography and audio reports. • The success of podcasts has created a new opportunity for audio journalism where ethics standards are still being formulated. • Recognizing that some news photography can offend the audience, journalists weigh its news value against the likely offense. • A number of news organizations are reducing their use of police arrest portraits because of fairness concerns. • The use of aerial drones for news photography is increasing, and ethics guidelines are being put in place to protect privacy and safety. Case Study: The Falling Man, World Trade Center, 2001 Case Study: Photographing a Man Pushed to His Death 21 Stolen Words and Invented Facts 367 Dishonesty can kill a career in journalism • Plagiarism and fabrication are morally wrong. Plagiarism is stealing the creative work of another. Fabrication is making things up and presenting them as fact. • The offenses of plagiarism and fabrication destroy journalism’s credibility and cost offenders their jobs and their careers. • Committing illegal acts is unacceptable in the pursuit of news. • Following sound work practices can help you avoid any hint of impropriety. • Newsroom leaders have a duty to establish clear rules about journalistic misconduct and to enforce them. 22 The Business of Producing Journalism 383 Seeking financial stability in a turbulent era of transition • Technological and economic transition has caused tensions in today’s news media. • More people are getting their news digitally, but online sites are struggling to find stable sources of revenue. • Although advertisers have historically paid for news coverage, consumers are now being asked to pay for digital subscriptions. • Native advertising has found a home on news websites, where stringent rules are needed to protect integrity of news content. • The business and news executives of media companies frequently have a strained relationship, mainly because their cultures are so different. Case Study: Sharing Ad Profits, Creating a Crisis Thoughts to Take With You 398 Glossary 400 Index 406

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by top international correspondants in print, broadcasting, and photojournalism, International News Reporting offers an introduction to journalism written by the people who have made the profession what it is today. Contributors identify the major areas of professional practice which students and young journalists need to know in order to work safely in, and understand fully, the field of international news gathering Looks at events from conflicts to humanitarian disasters Covers crucial topics such as how to report stories about the developing world, how to avoid stereotyping, the uses and abuses of blogging, and risk assessment for journalists in conflict zones Trade Review"As one would expect from a group of journalists, the chapters are well written, command attention, read well, and inform. . . Owen introduces each chapter with a brief essay about the subject matter and the author. These provide important frames for considering the topic and provide an overview about the direction of international reporting in the contemporary world." (Communication Research Trends, 2011) "Exciting first-hand stories from the journalists make the book interesting and envelop the writers' wisdom with a depth of credibility unavailable to academic authors." (CHOICE, August 2009)"I applaud this wonderful contribution to journalism by some of the best practitioners in the business. Honesty, bravery, integrity and the determination to bear witness are the key ingredients. This book shows there can be no substitute for first-hand reporting from the field." Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent, CNN "A significant and important book for existing and aspiring journalists: the cleverly and vigorously distilled wisdom of top practitioners on the critical issues facing international journalism the world over." Vin Ray, Director, BBC College of Journalism "An impressive list of contributors who are some of the leading practitioners in the world of international journalism, tackling the most critically important issues facing global news." Jean-Paul Marthoz, foreign affairs columnist and Professor of International Journalism at the Université Catholique de Louvain "Purdey and Owen have provided a wonderful opportunity to learn from the very best practitioners of international journalism, and no one else has pulled this content together so powerfully and so cohesively. John Owen is Europe's most respected authority on the perils of practicing journalism internationally, and his expertise shines through in every part of this excellent book." Joe Foote, Dean, Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication University of Oklahoma "John Owen and Heather Purdey have produced a much-needed book with leading practitioners writing about the real world of journalism they have seen at first hand." Adam Clayton Powell III, Vice Provost for Globalization, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Bearing Witness: Janine di Giovanni (Vanity Fair). 2. The Future of News Services and International Reporting: David Schlesinger (Reuters). 3. Technology, Timeliness and Taste: The Battlefronts for the Twenty-First Century News Agency: Nigel Baker (APTN). 4. Freelance Journalism: Vaughan Smith (freelance and Frontline). 5. Letter to a Young Photographer: Gary Knight (VII). 6. Diplomacy and Journalism: Bridget Kendall (BBC). 7. Non-Stop Deadlines: 24-Hour News: Nick Pollard (formerly Sky News). 8. World Perspectives: Ignoring the World at our Peril: Tony Burman (formerly CBC). 9. Local Heroes: Anthony Borden (Institute for War & Peace Reporting). 10. Taking the Right Risk: Chris Cramer (formerly CNN). 11. Emotions, Trauma and Good Journalism: Mark Brayne (formerly Reuters and Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma). 12. Citizen Journalism: Richard Sambrook (BBC Global News). 13. Working at the Coalface of New Media: Ben Hammersley (BBC). 14. Reporting Humanitarian Crises: Peter Apps (Reuters). Index

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Book SynopsisPhotojournalism and Today''s News provides a practical guide for aspiring photojournalists as well as an intelligent look into newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production, and editing. Written by an award-winning photo editor and director of photography, and based on interviews with more than seventy high-profile journalists, this book appeals to students and young professionals alike. Addresses a wide range of practical issues supported by in-depth examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism, and newsroom culture Examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism Prepares young journalists to respect their visual journalism colleagues by teaching them how to effectively work together Highlights the expectations of the newsroom and editors Trade Review"The critique is well argued and firmly rooted in the work of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Arthur Asa Berger and other philosophers and semioticians who have looked critically at visual mass media. ... The practical advice and lessons about best practices will be exceptionally valuable to anyone—student or recent graduate—who wants to improve and succeed in the profession of photojournalism. (Global Media Journal, Autumn, 2009) "A well balanced introduction to the medium of photojournalism. While important ideals are explored in depth, and 'best practice' encouraged, Langton lends a certain pragmatism to the way in which the work is carried out in the real world. This balance is very helpful for any person with aspirations towards a career in photojournalism." (M/C Reviews, April 2009)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Brief History of Photojournalism in the United States. 2. The Visual Newspaper. 3. Construction of Reality. 4. Newsroom Culture and Routines. 5. Economics. 6. Ethics. 7. Relationships: Photographer and Subject. 8. Iraq Wars. 9. Webs and Blogs. 10. Conclusion. Index

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Book SynopsisPhotojournalism and Today''s News provides a practical guide for aspiring photojournalists as well as an intelligent look into newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production, and editing. Written by an award-winning photo editor and director of photography, and based on interviews with more than seventy high-profile journalists, this book appeals to students and young professionals alike. Addresses a wide range of practical issues supported by in-depth examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism, and newsroom culture Examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism Prepares young journalists to respect their visual journalism colleagues by teaching them how to effectively work together Highlights the expectations of the newsroom and editors Trade Review"The critique is well argued and firmly rooted in the work of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Arthur Asa Berger and other philosophers and semioticians who have looked critically at visual mass media. ... The practical advice and lessons about best practices will be exceptionally valuable to anyone—student or recent graduate—who wants to improve and succeed in the profession of photojournalism. (Global Media Journal, Autumn, 2009) "A well balanced introduction to the medium of photojournalism. While important ideals are explored in depth, and 'best practice' encouraged, Langton lends a certain pragmatism to the way in which the work is carried out in the real world. This balance is very helpful for any person with aspirations towards a career in photojournalism." (M/C Reviews, April 2009)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Brief History of Photojournalism in the United States. 2. The Visual Newspaper. 3. Construction of Reality. 4. Newsroom Culture and Routines. 5. Economics. 6. Ethics. 7. Relationships: Photographer and Subject. 8. Iraq Wars. 9. Webs and Blogs. 10. Conclusion. Index

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Book SynopsisPuts recent dramatic changes in American journalism in sociological perspectiveTrade Review"Anderson explores whether and how emerging online news has changed the practice of reporting. Using a variety of research techniques including ethnography, social-network analysis, and archival content research, he takes an in-depth look at one city (Philadelphia) to study changes in journalism from the 1990s to the present... Scholars in journalism and organization sociology will appreciate Anderson's meticulous methodology and his analysis of the responses of journalists and news organizations to a rapidly changing environment."--Library Journal, March 2013 "American journalism's death spiral is by now a well-known and much-lamented phenomenon. But precious few accounts offer us on-the-ground views of how journalistic institutions are actually changing. C.W. Anderson offers us such a vantage point in his book Rebuilding the News. He provides a close chronicle of local news organizations' experimentations and permutations in their attempts to adapt to an online environment. Anderson captures this transitional moment for journalism with a narrative based on an ethnographic study of Philadelphia media institutions... [He] gives us a thick description of news work practices in the digital age... This is an important book and an enjoyable read. Anderson's writing is lively, and his analysis of journalism's shifting practices is often provocative. His work advances the ongoing discussion about our rapidly changing news institutions, and his treatment of his subject matter is careful and nuanced. Overlapping with science and technology studies, this book is a significant contribution to the growing subfield of journalism studies as well as ethnographic and sociological scholarship more generally. It is a worthwhile read for anyone who has a stake in the future of journalism. In other words, we should all be reading this book." - Political Communication "For keen insights into why news organizations are struggling so mightily to adapt to a networked environment, you won't do better than this splendid ethnographic study of the Philadelphia news 'ecosystem'. In his rich depiction of the people and practices behind local blogs and independent media outlets as well as the websites of the city's (barely) surviving sister newspapers, the Inquirer and Daily News, Anderson combines sharp observations with thoughtful analysis to show just how precarious newswork today is - and the difficulty of making it less so... This is a fine book: solidly researched, engagingly written, highly informative, and intellectually stimulating. And, of course, the topic matters." - JournalismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline of Digital News: Developments in Philadelphia and Nationally INTRODUCTION Local Journalism on the Brink PART I How Local Journalism Went Online 1 Philadelphia's Newspapers Go Online (1997-2008) 2 Alternate Paths in the Transition to Online Journalism (2000-2008) PART II Local Newswork in the Digital Age 3 A Day in the Life of Twenty-First-Century Journalism (July 16, 2008) 4 How News Circulates Online: The Short, Happy News Life of the Francisville Four (June 2008) PART III Building News Networks 5 What We Have Here Is a Failure to Collaborate (2005-2009) 6 Dark Days and Green Shoots (2009-2011) CONCLUSION Reporting and the Public in the Digital Age Appendix: Methodology Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPuts recent dramatic changes in American journalism in sociological perspectiveTrade Review"Anderson explores whether and how emerging online news has changed the practice of reporting. Using a variety of research techniques including ethnography, social-network analysis, and archival content research, he takes an in-depth look at one city (Philadelphia) to study changes in journalism from the 1990s to the present... Scholars in journalism and organization sociology will appreciate Anderson's meticulous methodology and his analysis of the responses of journalists and news organizations to a rapidly changing environment."--Library Journal, March 2013 "American journalism's death spiral is by now a well-known and much-lamented phenomenon. But precious few accounts offer us on-the-ground views of how journalistic institutions are actually changing. C.W. Anderson offers us such a vantage point in his book Rebuilding the News. He provides a close chronicle of local news organizations' experimentations and permutations in their attempts to adapt to an online environment. Anderson captures this transitional moment for journalism with a narrative based on an ethnographic study of Philadelphia media institutions... [He] gives us a thick description of news work practices in the digital age... This is an important book and an enjoyable read. Anderson's writing is lively, and his analysis of journalism's shifting practices is often provocative. His work advances the ongoing discussion about our rapidly changing news institutions, and his treatment of his subject matter is careful and nuanced. Overlapping with science and technology studies, this book is a significant contribution to the growing subfield of journalism studies as well as ethnographic and sociological scholarship more generally. It is a worthwhile read for anyone who has a stake in the future of journalism. In other words, we should all be reading this book." - Political Communication "For keen insights into why news organizations are struggling so mightily to adapt to a networked environment, you won't do better than this splendid ethnographic study of the Philadelphia news 'ecosystem'. In his rich depiction of the people and practices behind local blogs and independent media outlets as well as the websites of the city's (barely) surviving sister newspapers, the Inquirer and Daily News, Anderson combines sharp observations with thoughtful analysis to show just how precarious newswork today is - and the difficulty of making it less so... This is a fine book: solidly researched, engagingly written, highly informative, and intellectually stimulating. And, of course, the topic matters." - JournalismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline of Digital News: Developments in Philadelphia and Nationally INTRODUCTION Local Journalism on the Brink PART I How Local Journalism Went Online 1 Philadelphia's Newspapers Go Online (1997-2008) 2 Alternate Paths in the Transition to Online Journalism (2000-2008) PART II Local Newswork in the Digital Age 3 A Day in the Life of Twenty-First-Century Journalism (July 16, 2008) 4 How News Circulates Online: The Short, Happy News Life of the Francisville Four (June 2008) PART III Building News Networks 5 What We Have Here Is a Failure to Collaborate (2005-2009) 6 Dark Days and Green Shoots (2009-2011) CONCLUSION Reporting and the Public in the Digital Age Appendix: Methodology Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShows how daily metro newspapers can continue to survive in the age of digital journalismTrade Review“With the U.S. newspaper industry lost in the digital jungle, Nemanic’s book documents the confusion and turmoil that numerous journalists have experienced since the recession. Addressing the most important problems facing journalism through a critical review of what has taken place in newsrooms across the country, Nemanic presents compelling case studies and sobering findings. Her timely, indispensable research on the consequences of misinformed strategy highlights the need for the newspaper industry to learn from its mistakes. Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and anyone who cares about the future of quality journalism.”—Iris Chyi, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of Trial and Error: U.S. Newspapers’ Digital Struggles toward Inferiority"Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on daily newspapers. Nemanic has a new take on the strategies deployed to respond to the rise of digital technologies and the market shifts that accompanied them. Nemanic’s study is unusual in that it begins with a recognition of the persistence and viability of metro dailies and includes not only rich, in-depth interviews that shed light on newsroom dynamics but also an insightful discussion of photojournalism. This is a smart, convincing book.”—John Nerone, Professor Emeritus of Communications Research and of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of The Media and Public Life: A History

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Book SynopsisShows how daily metro newspapers can continue to survive in the age of digital journalismTrade Review“With the U.S. newspaper industry lost in the digital jungle, Nemanic’s book documents the confusion and turmoil that numerous journalists have experienced since the recession. Addressing the most important problems facing journalism through a critical review of what has taken place in newsrooms across the country, Nemanic presents compelling case studies and sobering findings. Her timely, indispensable research on the consequences of misinformed strategy highlights the need for the newspaper industry to learn from its mistakes. Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and anyone who cares about the future of quality journalism.”—Iris Chyi, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of Trial and Error: U.S. Newspapers’ Digital Struggles toward Inferiority"Metro Dailies in the Age of Multimedia Journalism makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on daily newspapers. Nemanic has a new take on the strategies deployed to respond to the rise of digital technologies and the market shifts that accompanied them. Nemanic’s study is unusual in that it begins with a recognition of the persistence and viability of metro dailies and includes not only rich, in-depth interviews that shed light on newsroom dynamics but also an insightful discussion of photojournalism. This is a smart, convincing book.”—John Nerone, Professor Emeritus of Communications Research and of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of The Media and Public Life: A History

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Book SynopsisThe late Philadelphia Daily News sportswriter Stan Hochman was known for his many zingers, such as Harry Litwack, the stoic Temple coach, stalks the sidelines like a blind man at a nudist colony. As a reporter, he was more interested in how athletes felt, what their values were, how they lived their lives, or what made them tick than he was about how many runs they scored or punches they landed. In Stan Hochman Unfiltered, his wife Gloria collects nearly 100 of his best columns from the Daily News about baseball, horse racing, boxing, football, hockey, and basketball (both college and pro), as well as food, films, and even Liz Taylor. Each section is introduced by a friend or colleague, including Garry Maddox, Bernie Parent, Larry Merchant, and Ray Didinger, among others.Hochman penned a candid, cantankerous column about whether Pete Rose belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame; wrote a graphic account of the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fight of the century; and skewered Norman Bottom

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Book SynopsisVanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s, showing how Mexico City reporters began to denounce government corruption during this period in ways that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.Trade Review“This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media in the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture. With delicate attention to forward movement and sinister recoil, she brilliantly situates her study in the proliferating field of inquiry into the public sphere.” -- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of * Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation *“Citizens of Scandal is a deeply researched account of the transformation of Mexican journalism during that country's economic transition from being a "miracle of progress" to its "crisis" (1960s–1980s). Vanessa Freije tracks the gradual diversification of Mexico's somewhat compromised and regulated print journalism, focusing most particularly on the press's part in managing scandal and rumor—agrarian corruption, forced sterilization, shady oil deals. This book introduces us to a vital agent in modern Mexican public life.” -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of * The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón *“[Citizens of Scandal] is an outstanding contribution to the literature on Mexican journalism and the communication processes involved in making scandals, and should be of considerable interest to scholars studying news in other one-party-dominant and ‘hybrid’ regimes, more generally.” -- Daniel C. Hallin * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *“In her insightful and analytically lucid Citizens of Scandal...Freije interweaves the stories of key journalists, famous chroniclers like Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska.... A selection of political cartoons and photographs enhances the impression of a press ever more willing to hold the powerful to account.” -- Andrew Paxman * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Of interest to political science and communications scholars and of course journalists, Freije’s book is in harmonious conversation with other works that are fundamental to understanding the evolution of not only the Mexican media system, but Latin America’s media systems in general.” -- Grisel Salazar Rebolledo * NACLA Report on the Americas *“[Citizens of Scandal] is a very accessible and engaging study, providing a better understanding of the mediated narratives and conflict triggered by pivotal historical events in modern Mexican history. As such, it builds on and adds to a growing literature on Mexican journalism.” -- Stephen D. Morris * The Latin Americanist *“Freije’s richly documented argument and critical theory orientation will readily contribute to anthropologies of media and information, as well as political anthropology and political economy, both in their broadest senses.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Anthropologica *“Grounded on strong field and archival research, this book offers a fresh view of Mexican politics and its protracted transition through the lens of media coverage of public affairs in a rapidly changing society. . . . Through her multilevel analysis, Freije provides a more textured appraisal of Mexican media and politics than we are used to.” -- Julián Durazo Herrmann * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Reckoning with the Revolution 23 2. "Vehicles of Scandal" 51 3. Muckraking and the Oil Boom and Bust 79 4. The Spectacle of Impunity 107 5. A Mediated Disaster 138 6. The Weaponization of Scandal 167 Epilogue 193 Conclusion 199 Notes 207 Bibliography 255 Index

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Book SynopsisVanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s, showing how Mexico City reporters began to denounce government corruption during this period in ways that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.Trade Review“This is a breakthrough book. With extensive documentation, Vanessa Freije narrates the uneven and incomplete dance among the public, journalists, and government that opened the Mexican media in the 1960s and transformed the nature of public debate and political culture. With delicate attention to forward movement and sinister recoil, she brilliantly situates her study in the proliferating field of inquiry into the public sphere.” -- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of * Portrait of a Young Painter: Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation *“Citizens of Scandal is a deeply researched account of the transformation of Mexican journalism during that country's economic transition from being a "miracle of progress" to its "crisis" (1960s–1980s). Vanessa Freije tracks the gradual diversification of Mexico's somewhat compromised and regulated print journalism, focusing most particularly on the press's part in managing scandal and rumor—agrarian corruption, forced sterilization, shady oil deals. This book introduces us to a vital agent in modern Mexican public life.” -- Claudio Lomnitz, author of * The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón *“[Citizens of Scandal] is an outstanding contribution to the literature on Mexican journalism and the communication processes involved in making scandals, and should be of considerable interest to scholars studying news in other one-party-dominant and ‘hybrid’ regimes, more generally.” -- Daniel C. Hallin * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *“In her insightful and analytically lucid Citizens of Scandal...Freije interweaves the stories of key journalists, famous chroniclers like Carlos Monsiváis and Elena Poniatowska.... A selection of political cartoons and photographs enhances the impression of a press ever more willing to hold the powerful to account.” -- Andrew Paxman * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Of interest to political science and communications scholars and of course journalists, Freije’s book is in harmonious conversation with other works that are fundamental to understanding the evolution of not only the Mexican media system, but Latin America’s media systems in general.” -- Grisel Salazar Rebolledo * NACLA Report on the Americas *“[Citizens of Scandal] is a very accessible and engaging study, providing a better understanding of the mediated narratives and conflict triggered by pivotal historical events in modern Mexican history. As such, it builds on and adds to a growing literature on Mexican journalism.” -- Stephen D. Morris * The Latin Americanist *“Freije’s richly documented argument and critical theory orientation will readily contribute to anthropologies of media and information, as well as political anthropology and political economy, both in their broadest senses.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Anthropologica *“Grounded on strong field and archival research, this book offers a fresh view of Mexican politics and its protracted transition through the lens of media coverage of public affairs in a rapidly changing society. . . . Through her multilevel analysis, Freije provides a more textured appraisal of Mexican media and politics than we are used to.” -- Julián Durazo Herrmann * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Reckoning with the Revolution 23 2. "Vehicles of Scandal" 51 3. Muckraking and the Oil Boom and Bust 79 4. The Spectacle of Impunity 107 5. A Mediated Disaster 138 6. The Weaponization of Scandal 167 Epilogue 193 Conclusion 199 Notes 207 Bibliography 255 Index

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Book SynopsisThe story behind the mainstream press's efforts to preserve baseball's color line and the efforts of Black and communist newspapers to end it.Trade Review“Everyone—casual fans, journalists, and even the most knowledgeable baseball expert—will find something of interest in this significant contribution to our understanding of civil rights and baseball.”—John Paul Hill, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Cultures "Lamb . . . brings all his scholarly tools to the project. . . . The author has documented a story of immense cultural importance."—Kirkus Starred Review"[Conspiracy of Silence] is a valuable resource for students of baseball history and for readers concerned with the history of race relations and the media in this country."—Robert Bruce Slater, Library Journal"Conspiracy of Silence represents a significant contribution to the study of baseball, race, and the press."—Trey Strecker, Journal of Sport History"Conspiracy of Silence offers overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of the black press in advancing integration in this country."—Dorothy Seymour Mills, New York Journal"Lamb's thorough journalistic exposé chronicles the drama and history behind the game, while tracing how the desegregation of baseball parallels the story of the civil rights movement in the United States."—Kathleen Gerard, Shelf Awareness"Lamb's research shows the struggle that took place in the media had a lot to do with the tug-o-war of ideals and practicality of all the issues involved in the decision. It's as good a book on the subject as we've ever come across."—Tom Hoffarth, Farther Off The Wall "Though it covers some familiar ground, this solidly researched study introduces new faces to the picture to broaden the context. The clear, bold writing makes the book a joy to read."—L. A. Heaphy, Choice"This is important, overdue work."—Gene Sapakoff, Post and Courier"Everyone—casual fans, journalists, and even the most knowledgeable baseball expert—will find something of interest in this significant contribution to our understanding of civil rights and baseball."—John Paul Hill, NINETable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1 1. White Sportswriters and Minstrel ShowsPart 2 2. The Color Line Is Drawn 3. Invisible Men 4. “Agitators” and “Social-Minded Drum Beaters” (written with Kelly Rusinack) Part 3 5. “L’affaire Jake Powell” 6. Major League Managers and Ballplayers Call for End of Color Line Part 4 7. The Double V Campaign 8. “The Great White Father” Speaks 9. Black Editors Make Their Case for Desegregation 10. “Get Those Niggers Off the Field” Part 5 11. Robinson Becomes the Chosen OnePart 6 12. “I Never Want to Take Another Trip Like This One”Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDisaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term disaffection to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a, which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public. Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law, literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating Trade ReviewThrough detailed case studies of the periodical press in both Britain and India, Agathocleous compellingly explains how the redefinition of sedition—in terms of loyalty and disaffection—shaped both imperial power in late colonial period and the contours of Indian nationalism. In her careful attention to the circulation of periodicals, in the difficult work she has done in the vast archive of colonial print, and in creating a genuinely comparative theoretical framing, Agathocleous has provided scholars with a truly valuable resource. * Review 19 *Disaffected offers an intricate, dynamic account of the way legal culture works far beyond the remit of a legal statute with effects again, intended and unintended evident in our own legal cultures today. [It] is an exemplary work of legal cultural studies. * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Affectation: The Aesthete and the Babu on Trial 2. Parody: Colonial Mimicry, Colonial Parody, and theMultiplicity of Punch 3. Review: Worlding White Supremacy and Indian Nationalism 4. Syncretism: From East and West to the Darker Nations Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government''s press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled science communicator who provided the public with a deep understanding of the atomic bomb. Laurence leveraged his perch at the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing, filmmakingTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Moth to the Flame 1. The Second Coming of Prometheus 2. On the Army's Payroll 3. Magnetic Current 4. Atomland-on-Mars 5. Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki 6. Aftermath 7. Atomic Plagiarism in the South Pacific 8. Reporter Grade 8 9. The Elixir of Life 10. The Hell Bomb 11. Atomic Dialogue 12. The U-Bomb 13. King Laurence 14. Peace Through Understanding

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Book SynopsisIn The Price of Truth, Richard Fine recounts the intense drama surrounding the German surrender at the end of World War II and the veteran Associated Press journalist Edward Kennedy''s controversial scoop. On May 7, 1945, Kennedy bypassed military censorship to be the first to break the news of the Nazi surrender executed in Reims, France. Both the practice and the public perception of wartime reporting would never be the same. While, at the behest of Soviet leaders, Allied authorities prohibited release of the story, Kennedy stuck to his journalistic principles and refused to manage information he believed the world had a right to know. No action by an American correspondent during the war proved more controversial.The Paris press corps was furious at what it took to be Kennedy''s unethical betrayal; military authorities threatened court-martial before expelling him from Europe. Kennedy defended himself, insisting the news was being withhelTrade ReviewFine presents a meticulous examination of the fraught relationship between the military and the media during World War II. A fresh contribution to the history of journalism. * Kirkus Review *

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Book SynopsisHow elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship. But, how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow? How well do they serve citizens?eBased on original research as well as the most comprehensive assessment of election studies to date, Cushion and Thomas examine how campaigns are reported in many advanced Western democracies. In doing so, they engage with debates about the mediatization of politics, media systems, information environments, media ownership, regulation, political news, horserace journalism, objectivity, impartiality, agenda-setting, and the relationship between media and democracy more generally.Focusing on the most recent US and UK election campaigns, they consider how the logic of election coverage could be rethought in ways that better serve the democratic needs of citizens. Above all, they argue that election reporting should be driven by a public logic, where the agenda of voters takes centre stage in the campaign and the policies of respective political parties receive more airtime and independent scrutiny.The book is essential reading for scholars and students in political communication and journalism studies, political science, media and communication studies.Trade Review"Thoroughly researched and well written, this is a major addition to the agenda-setting library, a nuanced, empirically grounded presentation of the key elements that define the political, media and public agendas during elections."Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas at Austin"This clear-sighted interrogation of the democratic performance of news organizations across several national and electoral contexts is of enormous value."David Deacon, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University"Cushion and Thomas’s cross-national treatment of “air wars” during election campaigns provides lots of meat for scholars and students to absorb and ponder."Jay Blumler, University of Leeds"a valuable text"European Journal of CommunicationTable of Contents Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Studying Elections Chapter One: Setting the Campaign Agenda Chapter Two: Reporting Election Campaigns Chapter Three: Making Sense of Horserace Reporting Chapter Four: Regulating Balance and Impartiality Chapter Five: The Trumpification of Election News Conclusion: Rethinking Election Reporting References Index

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Book SynopsisHow elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship. But, how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow? How well do they serve citizens?eBased on original research as well as the most comprehensive assessment of election studies to date, Cushion and Thomas examine how campaigns are reported in many advanced Western democracies. In doing so, they engage with debates about the mediatization of politics, media systems, information environments, media ownership, regulation, political news, horserace journalism, objectivity, impartiality, agenda-setting, and the relationship between media and democracy more generally.Focusing on the most recent US and UK election campaigns, they consider how the logic of election coverage could be rethought in ways that better serve the democratic needs of citizens. Above all, they argue that election reporting should be driven by a public logic, where the agenda of voters takes centre stage in the campaign and the policies of respective political parties receive more airtime and independent scrutiny.The book is essential reading for scholars and students in political communication and journalism studies, political science, media and communication studies.Trade Review"Thoroughly researched and well written, this is a major addition to the agenda-setting library, a nuanced, empirically grounded presentation of the key elements that define the political, media and public agendas during elections."Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas at Austin"This clear-sighted interrogation of the democratic performance of news organizations across several national and electoral contexts is of enormous value."David Deacon, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University"Cushion and Thomas’s cross-national treatment of “air wars” during election campaigns provides lots of meat for scholars and students to absorb and ponder."Jay Blumler, University of Leeds"a valuable text"European Journal of CommunicationTable of Contents Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction: Studying Elections Chapter One: Setting the Campaign Agenda Chapter Two: Reporting Election Campaigns Chapter Three: Making Sense of Horserace Reporting Chapter Four: Regulating Balance and Impartiality Chapter Five: The Trumpification of Election News Conclusion: Rethinking Election Reporting References Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news. In News Parade, Joseph Clark examines the history of the newsreel and how it changed the way Americans saw the world. He combines an examination of the newsreel’s methods of production, distribution, and reception with an analysis of its representational strategies to understand the newsreel’s place in the history of twentieth-century American culture and film history.Clark focuses on the sound newsreel of the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that it represents a crucial moment in the development of a spectacular society where media representations of reality became more fully integrated into commodity culture. Using several case studies, including the newsreel’s coverage of Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight and the Sino–Japanese War, News Parade shows how news film transformed the relationship between its audience and current events, as well as the social and political consequences of these changes. It pays particular attention to how discourses of race and gender worked together with the rhetoric of speed, mobility, and authority to establish the power and privilege of newsreel spectatorship.In the age of fake news and the profound changes to journalism brought on by the internet, News Parade demonstrates how new technologies and media reshaped the American public’s relationship with the news in the 1930s—a history that can help us to better understand the transformations happening today.Trade Review"Sophisticated and accessible, with a depth and range that lends an impressive resonance, News Parade quickly convinced me that the study of the newsreel is a vital topic in the analysis of American culture. In Joseph Clark's hands, the emergence of spectatorship as a formative dimension of collective identity in the modern world is made clear and articulated in a wide variety of specific historical and social contexts."—Robert Burgoyne, author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, Revised Edition"With historians returning at last to the neglected institution of the newsreel, Joseph Clark’s News Parade becomes the key study of this significant element of cinema experience, journalism, and media industries. Lucidly written, it deftly conveys the enormity of six decades of newsfilm production and thousands of hours of surviving footage. This book is the most significant history of American newsreels published in the last fifty years."—Dan Streible, New York University "News Parade should be commended for raising important questions about the future directions that media studies might take... News Parade will certainly be a key reference for the important but underappreciated newsreel medium for the foreseeable future."—Journal of Cinema and Media Studies"A welcome contribution to a scandalously unplowed field in the realm of film studies."—Cineaste MagazineTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. “History of the Most Graphic and Thrilling Sort”: The History of the Newsreel, The Newsreel as History 1. News Parade: The Logic of the Newsreel System2. Newsreel Realism: Redefining the Real in Motion Picture News3. “Heroes of the Lens”: Newsreel Cameramen, the Sino-Japanese War, and Looking as Action4. “Come Along. We’re Going to the Trans-Lux to Hiss Roosevelt”: Modernity, Virtual Travel and the Newsreel Cinema as Public Forum5. Double Vision: World War Two, Racial Uplift, and Politics of Visibility in the All-American NewsreelConclusion: News Parade’s Gone By?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings “All I really need to do is simply ask a question,” Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. “And then listen.” It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights—and depths—as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called “an incomparable interviewer,” one whose skill, according to the great interviewer and oral historian Studs Terkel, “is artless yet impassioned and knowing.” Collected here are twenty-two of Cott’s most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the indispensable and transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds. What is it like to be Bob Dylan making a movie? Carl Sagan taking on the cosmos? Oliver Sacks doctoring the soul? John Lennon, on December 5, 1980? Elizabeth Taylor, ever? From Chinua Achebe to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Federico Fellini to Werner Herzog, and Oriana Fallaci to Studs Terkel, Listening takes readers on a journey to discover not ways of life but ways to life. Within these pages,Cott proves himself to be, in the words of Brain Pickings’s Maria Popova, “an interlocutor extraordinaire,” drawing candid insights and profound observations from these inspired and inspiring individuals.Trade Review"Jonathan Cott, as an interviewer, reveals truths of creative spirits."—Studs Terkel"As far as I’m concerned, Jonathan Cott can drive the tour bus in the City of God. Knowledge, esoteric and exoteric, oozes out of his every pore."—Tom Robbins"Jonathan Cott is in that rarefied group of writers who have elevated the very idea of the interview. His conversations with the wise, the brilliant, and the necessary are treasures. He has that special ability to humanize people without destroying their magic."—Richard Gere"An incomparable interviewer, who seems to me to have given the interviewing art a new dimension."—Jan Morris"Cott must be the ideal interviewer. He comes to his subjects so steeped in their work that the ensuing conversation is much more nearly a dialogue than an interview; a dialogue, moreover, full of nuance and connection, in which Cott and his subject together explore the meaning and the sources of the author’s work. Lucky the authors who can find such a critic."—Anne Scott MacLeod, The Washington Post"Jonathan Cott is an admirable, readable, literate interviewer. He has even managed to construct something that looks rather like a new form, the essay-interview."—Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post"Jonathan Cott’s range is amazing. He is not only a sympathetic interviewer who can identify with his subjects and get the best out of them, but a highly cultured individual. . . . Anyone who is interested in the well-springs of creativity will find nuggets of gold in [his] interviews."—Anthony Storr, The Washington Post"Cott is not only an extremely well-educated person of wide and varied interests and studies, but a spiritually concerned, poetic sensibility. He brings to each of these encounters an intense preparation which is almost contemplative in its consideration not only of the work of the subject, but of a wide range of quotes and materials relevant to it. By immersing himself in the individual flavor of a person and her/his achievements, he is able to draw forth revelations of being and meaning that resonate far beyond the mere eliciting of information. Delight and wonder, courage and imagination, are the touchstones of the worlds to which he guides us."—David Harris, New Age"What, students in writing courses sometimes ask, is the best way to conduct an interview? Orthodox answers are hard to come by. Try to spend as much time with your subject as you can. See him in different contexts. Meet the people who matter to him. Read his favorite books. Keep him talking, and write down what he says. Break bread with him. And, while you’re at it, read [his book] Forever Young."—Jane Howard, Mademoiselle"An interlocutor extraordinaire."—Maria Popova, Brain PickingsTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionChinua Achebe: At the CrossroadsGeorge Balanchine: Dancing with Mr. BJ. G. Ballard: Halos of LightRay Davies: Afternoon Tea on Hampstead HeathBob Dylan: Behind the MaskOriana Fallaci: The Art of Unclothing an EmperorFederico Fellini: The Language of DreamsTheodor Geisel: The Good Dr. SeussRichard Gere: Face-to-FaceStéphane Grappelli: The Prince of ViolinsWerner Herzog: Signs of LifeMick Jagger: Some GirlsJohn Lennon: December 5, 1980Astrid Lindgren: The Happy Childhoods of Pippi LongstockingHenry Miller: Reflections of a Cosmic TouristLou Reed: A New York State of MindOliver Sacks: The Neurology of the SoulCarl Sagan: Taking On the CosmosSam Shepard: Lies of the MindElizabeth Taylor: PassionStuds Terkel: Nothing But ListenMarie-Louise von Franz: Forever JungAcknowledgmentsPublication History

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Book SynopsisThis set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country’s neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and undermined the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by describing triumphs of Thérèse Mabel Bonney, Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps’ creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiqués issued by the military. Many wartime reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy.Table of ContentsForeword Max D. Lederer Jr. | vii Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer | 1 1. Learning and Adapting: The American Media and the “Phony War,” September 1939–April 1940 Steven Casey | 15 2. Helen Kirkpatrick’s Reporting to Undercut Irish Neutrality Policy, 1939–1942 Karen Garner | 34 3. Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front Henry Oinas-Kukkonen | 55 4. Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-Known World War II Correspondents Kendall Cosley | 85 5. Two African American Journalists Confront World War II: Perspectives on Nationalism, Racism, and Identity Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier | 107 6. Bylines and Bayonets: How United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents in World War II Blended Journalism and Public Relations Douglass K. Daniel | 132 7. Reporting Reconnaissance to the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and American Strategies Victoria Sotvedt | 159 8. Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater Carolyn M. Edy | 172 9. A “Butcher and Bolt” Force: Commandos, Rangers, and Newspaper Dramatics in World War II James Austin Sandy | 193 10. “A Major Readjustment”: Omar Bradley’s War against the Stars and Stripes Alexander G. Lovelace | 213 11. After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg Nathaniel L. Moir | 234 Acknowledgments | 259 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265

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Book SynopsisThis set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strove for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of that country’s neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored newspaper, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and undermined the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by describing triumphs of Thérèse Mabel Bonney, Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps’ creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiqués issued by the military. Many wartime reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of the conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work a new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history of the global struggle against Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, and fascist Italy.Table of ContentsForeword Max D. Lederer Jr. | vii Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer | 1 1. Learning and Adapting: The American Media and the “Phony War,” September 1939–April 1940 Steven Casey | 15 2. Helen Kirkpatrick’s Reporting to Undercut Irish Neutrality Policy, 1939–1942 Karen Garner | 34 3. Miss Bonney Reporting from the Arctic Front Henry Oinas-Kukkonen | 55 4. Reporting from the Bureaus: The Lesser-Known World War II Correspondents Kendall Cosley | 85 5. Two African American Journalists Confront World War II: Perspectives on Nationalism, Racism, and Identity Larry A. Greene and Alan Delozier | 107 6. Bylines and Bayonets: How United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents in World War II Blended Journalism and Public Relations Douglass K. Daniel | 132 7. Reporting Reconnaissance to the Public: A Comparative Analysis of Canadian and American Strategies Victoria Sotvedt | 159 8. Outstanding and Conspicuous Service: Iris Carpenter, Lee Carson, and Ann Stringer in the European Theater Carolyn M. Edy | 172 9. A “Butcher and Bolt” Force: Commandos, Rangers, and Newspaper Dramatics in World War II James Austin Sandy | 193 10. “A Major Readjustment”: Omar Bradley’s War against the Stars and Stripes Alexander G. Lovelace | 213 11. After the Shooting Stopped: Justice and Journalism at Nuremberg Nathaniel L. Moir | 234 Acknowledgments | 259 List of Contributors | 261 Index | 265

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Book SynopsisShines a new light on a dark era in American journalismTrade Review"Writing a blurb for this book would be a snap: 'Every serious journalist should read this fascinating, superbly researched, thoroughly documented, and invaluable historical account of a frightening, sustained and vicious assault on robust journalism-an assault that has great resonance today,' is what I'd say...For those not old enough to have lived through this time in our nation's history, having the chance this book gives to absorb its valuable lessons is a gift worth sampling." -Nieman ReportsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Awakening the newsroom; 2. The Communist connection; 3. Prelude to an investigation; 4. Reds in the newsroom; 5. The specter Of McCarthy; 6. Dark clouds over the newsroom; 7. The investigation; 8. Deeper trouble; 9. Journalists and the First Amendment; 10. Lessons from the past

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Book SynopsisIn a career that has spanned over thirty five years, Ray Didinger has seen and written about every sport, team, and athlete that has made a mark in American and the world. In this collection of profiles, articles, and columns from his days in the Bulletin, the Daily News and through his current life on television and film, Ray Didinger takes his readers to the major moments and events that have measure the life of sports in Philadelphia, this country, and the world.Trade Review"There is no city in America where voices of reason are in greater need-and shorter supply-than Philadelphia. Fortunately, Ray Didinger has been stepping forward for more than three decades to serve as a paragon of sanity in a town where panic is always just a missed field goal away. As this book so beautifully reminds us, Ray has always had a knack for being as eloquent as he is professional. So who the heck cares if it took him a little longer to find just the right words? One Last Read proves once and for all that it was worth the wait." —Jayson Stark, senior baseball writer for ESPN.com and longtime Philadelphia Inquirer baseball writer and columnistTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Home Town TeamsThe Eagles1. Bednarik's Legend Etched in Concrete2. Vince Papale Ain't Just Another Bum from the Neighborhood Anymore3. Wilbert has a Mom that Frets4. A Real Philadelphia Kind of Win5.. Introducing Tommy McDonald at the Pro Football Hall of Fame6. The New Dick Vermeil - Who is He?7. Reggie WhiteThe Phillies8. Phillies are Rosel-less and Red-Faced9. Maddox Takes Ride of His Life10. Walk-ing into the Series Spotlight11. McGraw's Retirement Tugs at Heartstrings12. The End is Here13. Lieberthal Receiving Good ReviewsThe Flyers14. For Hard Luck Parent, Another Damaging Blow15. Stickle: It Could have been Worse16. In Flin Flon, They Knew He'd be Great17. Hextall's Goal Always was to be in Goal18. Flyer's Shining Moment Tarnished Before GameThe Sixers19. Moses Makes His Private Life Most Valuable20. This One's for You, Jack McMahon21. Erving Can't Make Sense of It All22. Barkley Uncomfortable with Life in the Glare of the SpotlightPart Two: American Sports at Home and in the WorldFootball23. The Black Athlete: Jackie Robinson? He Wasn't the First24. America's Team: Cowboys Corral a Nation25. Montana Magic26. The Shulas Always have Felt at Home Near the Gridiron27. Elevating Frankford28. Just a Truck Drivin' Man29. Passing of the Chief Marks the End of an Era30. Larry Brown: King of the HillBaseball31. Aaron's Numbers Speak for Him32. Munson: A Man of No Frills33. The 500 Club34. Fernando has been Touched by GodOlympics35. Thorpe Nets Golden Debt36. Decker Runs Armed with a Killer Instinct37. Huber Junks Diet for Taste of Gold 38. Teti Always Seems to Stand Out on Rowing Team1980 - The Year That Was39. A Cure for America's BluesIs Rosie a Real Winner?40. Flyers Lose to Islanders in the Stanley Cup Finals41. “The Officials Killed Us,” Snider Sizzles42. Fans Roar Tells Jack He's Back43. Winning Makes It All Worthwhile44. Duran Calls It Quits45. A Real Philadelphia Kind of Win46. Jim Plunkett's Journey Ends in TriumphPart Three: Facts and OpinionProfiles47. Alcorn's Battle Over48. Jim Tyrer Story Ultimate Tragedy49. Their Hearts Belong to Daddy Mass50. Hard Man to Please, Tough Man to Beat51. Sugar Ray Pulls People Together52. Waterboy Reaches Hall of Fame53. Best of All Time?: Bird's Genius Puts Him in Rarified Aire54. Climbing Capitol Hill55. Abolition of Boxing Wouldn't be Jake56. I'm not a WhinerOpinion57. Phillies Left Red-faced and Rose-less58. NFL Should Sack Tose59. The Real World of Professional Football60. Working Up a Strong Hate61. Woody Hayes Doesn't Merit an Appreciative Audience62. A Sense of Perspective

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Book SynopsisThis first-ever anthology of the war reporting and commentary of Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Sydney Schanberg is drawn from more than four decades of reporting at home and abroad for the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, and various magazines.

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Book SynopsisAmy Jacques Garvey was one of the most prolific women within any Black nationalist group, yet she has largely only been discussed in relationship to her husband, Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, and as the editor of the Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Much of her writing has remained unavailable to the public, lost to the archives, until now. Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World, 1923–1928 seeks to fill this void by making her writings in the Negro World widely available for the first time.Editor Louis J. Parascandola compiles a wide swath of Jacques Garvey’s work in this groundbreaking collection. Born and educated in Jamaica, Jacques Garvey’s atypical opportunity to receive education at elite Jamaican schools, along with her later jobs as a clerk and secretary, prepared her for future positions as journalist and political administrator. She also possessed the rhetorical skills and independent thinking that would help her challenge Marcus Garvey and the other men in Garvey’s organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). In allowing Jacques Garvey’s work to largely speak for itself, the volume reveals that she concerned herself with a diversity of important and often controversial political and social issues rather than the stereotypical domestic matters expected of most woman’s pages of the time period.By examining her selected writings in the Negro World, this volume affords its readers a better understanding of Jacques Garvey’s powerful contribution not only to Garveyism but also to the growth of Black radical thought, anti-imperialist ideology, and the rights of third-world women. This timely study sheds new light on Jacques Garvey’s pivotal role as a Black female writer and thinker during the twenties.

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