Journalism category: 1922 books
Ransoming Pagan Babies
The Selected Writings of Warren Hinckle
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From his galvanizing exposés in Ramparts magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, Ransoming Pagan...
On Islam
Muslims and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims, depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break this cycle with information and strategies...
Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game
A Library of America Special Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the street game to March Madness to Jordan and LeBron, the greatest writing about the grit, grace, and glory of basketball
Made in America, basketball is a sport that stirs a national passion, reaching fever pitch during the NCAA's March Madness and the NBA Finals. Masterfully assembled...
Legendary Sports Writers of the Golden Age
Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
During the 1920s—the Golden Age of sports—sports writers gained their own recognition while covering such athletes as Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey, and Red Grange. The top journalists of the era were the primary means by which fans learned about their favorite teams and athletes, and their...
Fore!
The Best of John Hopkins on Golf
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A lifetime of classic golf writing by veteran sports journalist John Hopkins, recipient of the 2013 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism
For more than 35 years, John "Hoppy" Hopkins covered the biggest stories in golf, from Major Championships to Ryder Cups and Amateur...
Real-World Media Ethics
Inside the Broadcast and Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Is it ethical to pass yourself off as black if you are Caucasian, as Rachel Dolezai, the president of a local chapter of the NAACP, did in 2015?
Was it ethical for Donald Sterling, the former owner of the NBA team, to use racially inflammatory language?
Is it ethical to exaggerate...
Newspapers in Transition
American Dailies Confront the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text. After a brief history of U.S. news dailies and weeklies it turns attention to those journals’ status today. A wide range of forces that impinge on their success and failure are explored, including the decline of their...
by Jacqueline Bodnar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
With traffic to personal blogs and online journalism sites on the rise, there are more blogging opportunities than ever before. With the right approach, a blog can be an extra source of cash, or it can be a business unto itself yielding thousands of dollars a week, all earned on your own schedule,...
The Basics of Media Writing
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism,...
Crash to Paywall
Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In 2014, when Postmedia acquired Quebecor's Sun Media newspaper and online assets, there was a sense that the recent history of newspapers was repeating itself not as comedy or tragedy, but as eulogy. Crash to Paywall shows that while the newspaper business was weakened by decreases in advertising revenues...
All News Is Local
The Failure of the Media to Reflect World Events in a Globalized Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It argues that the framework of localization is fragile and unable to cope with the issues, events, agents and institutions of globalization that exist, and that the current model of news gathering and reporting requires rethinking.
by Michael R. Greenberg, Bernadette M. West, Karen W. Lowrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation,...
Social Media Communication
Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In the second edition of Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media. Examining platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, YouTube and Pinterest, this book...
News
The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
For over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting and expanding mediaverse that resembles a big bang...