Journalism category: 1922 books
by Fred W. Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting.
With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly...
by Cecilia Friend, Don Challenger
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Contemporary Editing offers journalism students a forward-looking introduction to news editing, providing instruction on traditional newsroom conventions along with a focus on emerging news platforms. This comprehensive text provides students with a strong understanding of everything an editor does,...
The Making of an Abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison's Path to Publishing The Liberator
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
William Lloyd Garrison’s life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studied Garrison can ignore his editorship of The Liberator but many have not fully understood his belief in the central role of a well-edited newspaper in the...
The Watchdog Still Barks
How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Upends the traditional media narrative that watchdog (accountability) journalism is in a long, dismaying decline
The Press and the Suburbs
The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The changing economic and demographic patterns of the United States have many measurements; few of them, however, are more comprehensive than the new circulation realities of the press. This volume tells the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey from the 1960s to the 1980s and in...
Headlines From the Heartland
Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2007
In the 1990s a newspaper revolution began blowing across northern and central India. In these Hindi-speaking states, when literacy levels rose, communications expanded, and purchasing power climbed, Hindi newspapers followed-picking up readers in small towns and villages. Even while these newspapers...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.
Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The *New York Times'*s The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent...
The Elements of Blogging
Expanding the Conversation of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Becoming a blogger takes practice, hard work, and, ultimately, a passion for the craft. Whether you plan to blog on politics or parenting, The Elements of Blogging is designed to give you the skills and strategies to get started, to sustain your work, and to seek out a robust audience. This book is...
Contesting Media Power
Alternative Media in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2003
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative...
Power Without Responsibility
Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; a subtle account of the impact of social media and explores key debates about the role and politics...
Crime News in Modern Britain
Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
Trust Ownership and the Future of News
Media Moguls and White Knights
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Crumbling business models mean news media structures must change. Gavin Ellis explores the past and present use of newspaper trusts – drawing on case studies such as the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Pulitzer Prize winning Tampa Bay Times – to make the case for a form of ownership dedicated to sustaining high quality journalism.
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
Read All About It!
A History of the British Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions.
Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers...