Journalism category: 1922 books
The Grand Surprise
The Journals of Leo Lerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994.
Lerman’s contributions to the...
by Alain De Botton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The news is everywhere. We can’t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds?
We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness),...
Reality Radio
Telling True Stories in Sound
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Over the last few decades, the radio documentary has developed into a strikingly vibrant form of creative expression. Millions of listeners hear arresting, intimate storytelling from an ever-widening array of producers on programs including This American Life, StoryCorps, and Radio Lab; online through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For Reparations" (The Atlantic) and Monica Lewinsky's reflections on the public-humiliation complex...
The Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet's effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting.
In the last decade, customary news media have crumbled before the effects of the internet on advertising, circulation and viewership. In the next...
Censored 2013
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news...
Delivering the Vision
Public Services for the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Political rhetoric surrounding the role of information and knowledge in society in the twenty-first century is often thrown into sharp relief by the realities of practice. Delivering the Vision explores the way in which public service visions have developed globally and how successful they have been...
by Frank Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
On the 6th of June 2004 BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank...
Flat Earth News
An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.
After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry.
From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence...
by Lewis Lapham
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Halfway between the summer of love and the Tet offensive, the Beatles went to India to study with the Maharishi—and Lewis Lapham, esteemed Harper's editor and award-winning writer, was there. WITH THE BEATLES is a remarkable book of cultural commentary on that seminal '60s moment.
The ashram...
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Life in the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Since 2007, John Carlisle has fascinated readers with his untold stories of Detroit in his "Detroitblogger John" column for the Metro Times. His words and photographs shed light on the overlooked and forgotten while bringing life to neglected, far-flung neighborhoods. The Detroit chapter of the Society...
by Glen Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
The popular quip, repeated by a number of people, is that "writing about music is like dancing about art"--it's a fun thing to say, but is it true? Is there really no value in writing about music? This collection of reviews begins with an essay describing why music writing is vital to our understanding of what music is and its place within our culture.
Managing Television News
A Handbook for Ethical and Effective Producing
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Managing Television News provides a practical introduction to the television news producer, one of the most significant and influential roles in a newscast. Recognizing the need for formal training in this key role, authors B. William Silcock, Don Heider, and Mary T. Rogus have combined their expertise...
American Gangster
And Other Tales of New York
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians,...