Journalism category: 1922 books
Finding the Trapdoor
Essays, Portraits, Travels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild’s voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild’s readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition,...
Shocking True Story
The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential: “Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house” . . . Tom Wolfe called it “the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world” . . . Time defined it as “a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig...
Follow the Story
How to Write Successful Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
An indispensable guide to nonfiction writing from the Columbia Journalism School professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist behind the bestsellers Blind Eye, Blood Sport, and Den of Thieves.
In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you the techniques...
Murdoch's World
The Last of the Old Media Empires
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a stretch spanning...
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms
Using Technology in Television News Production
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Computers in Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms: Using Technology in Television News Production takes readers through the use of computers and software in the broadcast/cable newsroom environment. Author Phillip O. Keirstead began writing about television news technology decades ago in an effort to help...
This House of Grief
The Story of a Murder Trial
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime, 2015
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2014
On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into...
The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition
The Year's Best True Crime Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of...
Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable
Fifty Years of New York Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
New York, the city. New York, the magazine. A celebration.
The great story of New York City in the past half-century has been its near collapse and miraculous rebirth. A battered town left for dead, one that almost a million people abandoned and where those who remained had to live behind triple...
by Gioacchino Roberto Di Maio
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The following work has as its object of study what are the main characteristics of the language of football, being considered as a special language, has specific properties .
The interest in this topic stems from my passion for the world of football, which sees me assiduously engaged in various...
Richmond Independent Press
A History of the Underground Zine Scene
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
During the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s, even the sleepy southern town of Richmond was not immune to the emergence of radical counterculturalism. A change in the traditional ideas of objective journalism spurred an underground movement in the press. "The" "Sunflower," Richmond's first...
by Brendan Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets.
Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has been fully revised and updated to take into...
by Wynford Hicks, Sally Adams, Harriett Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Praise for the first edition:
'There are books that are badly written, books that are well written and books that you wish you'd written. This is one of the latter. Hicks and his co-writers produce a book that is a joy to read and is packed full of helpful advice.' – Chris Frost, Journalist
'You...
A Radiant Life
The Selected Journalism of Nuala O'Faolain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Writings from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Are You Somebody?, on topics from Catholicism to feminism to Irish American culture, and more.
Curious and funny, tender and scathing, Nuala O’Faolain’s columns in the Irish Times were never less than trenchant and always passionate....
Fashion Writing and Criticism
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students...