Journalism category: 1922 books
Russia's Liberal Media
Handcuffed but Free
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluating...
Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines
How to Turn Current Research & Trends into Salable Feature Articles
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2005
Here's how to transform your interest in popular health topics such as gene hunters, medical trends, self-help, nutrition, current issues, or pets into writing salable feature articles for popular publications.
Become a health-aware feature writer, journalist, editor, indexer, abstractor, proofreader,...
Journalistic Role Performance
Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting role...
by Nick Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: 1.3, Central Queensland University, course: Applied Communication Arts, language: English, abstract: The Knowledge Gap Theory of Communication is primarily concerned with the unequal distribution...
Patents, Pills, and the Press
The Rise and Fall of the Global HIV/AIDS Medicines Crisis in the News
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis of unprecedented proportions. Afflicting millions worldwide, its social, political, economic, and ethical dimensions have rendered explicit the vast inequalities of our «negatively globalized planet». Since the late 1990s, a major feature of the crisis has been...
Discussing the News
The Uneasy Alliance of Participatory Journalists and the Critical Public
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book examines two new roles that journalists assume in a participatory media environment – the administration (moderation) of online discussion and the monitoring of and engagement in comments below their articles. The author argues that it is precisely because both roles are treated as peripheral...
Media Ethics Beyond Borders
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact. Essays by international media ethicists provide leading theoretical perspectives on major issues and applies the ideas to specific countries, contexts and problems, addressing such questions as: Are...
Turn Up the Volume
A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Turn Up the Volume equips journalism students, professionals, and others interested in producing audio content with the know-how necessary to launch a podcast for the first time. It addresses the unique challenges beginner podcasters face in producing professional level audio for online distribution....
Digital Innovations for Mass Communications
Engaging the User
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In every field of mass communications—advertising, entertainment studies, journalism, public relations, radio-television-film, tourism, and visual reporting—professionals understand the importance of storytelling. Regardless of whether the finished product is a commercial, an in-depth investigative...
Media Writing
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Now updated in a second edition, this highly accessible and practical guide to media writing brings together a range of different professional contexts, enabling students to develop a solid understanding of the practices that will enable them to excel in any media writing field today. In chapters...
The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa
Whose News?
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media reinforce...
Becoming the Story
War Correspondents since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The September 11 attacks produced changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets of anti-U.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contributors focus on topics such as the ethics of the use of fiction techniques in investigative journalism, the epistemological overlay of postmodern indeterminacy,...
The Fourth Enemy
Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 1930–1955
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement’s evolution, or what the resulting transformation...