Journalism category: 1922 books
by Jill Walker Rettberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet today, but also the nature of modern communication, despite being a genre invented less than a decade ago. This book-length study of a now everyday phenomenon provides a close look at blogging while placing it in a historical,...
by Jackie Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
From an author highly knowledgeable in the field, News is a handy and accessible guide that examines the history of news, both as newspapers and radio, and as entertainment and information, and introduces students to the key concepts and issues that surround the news.
Using up-to-date case...
Facts are Sacred
Enhanced
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?
Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency...
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
The findings of the investigation that inspired the major motion picture Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
The story behind this groundbreaking book--one of the most significant works of investigative journalism since Woodward and Bernstein's reporting on Watergate--has been brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight,...
Renegades
My Wild Trip from Professor to New Journalist with Outrageous Visits from Clint Eastwood, Reggie Jackson, Larry Flynt, and other American Icons
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2012
After spending time as a professor in upstate New York, Robert Ward decided to give journalism a try.
What followed were two decades of assignments for New Times, GQ, SPORT, Rolling Stone, and other publications, covering the biggest stars of the sporting, music, art, and film worlds. This...
The Fiddler in the Subway
The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable.
Millions...
Thinking Clearly
Cases in Journalistic Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2003
Written by leading professional journalists and classroom-tested at schools of journalism, Thinking Clearly is designed to provoke conversation about the issues that shape the production and presentation of the news in the twenty-first century. These case studies depict real-life moments when people...
by Leila Guerriero
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Obsession and mastery in their purest states: the story of one dancer’s attempt to win the biggest contest of his life.
Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national malambo contest. Centuries-old, this shatteringly demanding traditional gaucho...
Cox's Fragmenta
An Historical Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Erotic misdemeanors in an Irish bean-field and the recipe for a frog barometer fresh from the French court are included in this collection of the funniest and most bizarre news stories printed in the 18th and 19th centuries A parrot convicted of heresy and burnt at the stake in Spain, and a Dutch...
by Donagh Bracken
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
As the divided nation threw its sons into civil war, the home front demanded to know what was happening. Newspapers, North and South, responded by sending special war correspondents into the battlefront with the armies and navies of the Union and Confederacy. They reported what they saw and, in many...
Eyewitness to World War II
Guadalcanal Diary, Invasion Diary, and John F. Kennedy and PT-109
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Three classic accounts of WWII from a reporter who “shaped America’s understanding of the war, and influenced every account that came after” (Mark Bowden).
Volunteer combat correspondent Richard Tregaskis risked life and limb to give American readers a soldier’s–eye view of the Second...
by Andy Rooney
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, naïve correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the Liberation, and was...
by Brenda Kimsey Warneka, Carol Hughes, Lois McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive…and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists from Arizona span the one hundred years since...
Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this first collection offers a unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded in the pages of Playboy, The Paris Review, Esquire, and elsewhere.
Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some...