Journalism category: 1922 books
The CCC Chronicles
Camp Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately. Happy Days, the semi-official newspaper of the CCC, and other such publications served as soundings boards for opinions among the CCC enrollees,...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...
Storycraft
The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
Telling True Stories
Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
'In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.' - William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry
'An essential guide for the true storyteller.' - Chloe Hooper,...
Scoop
The Evolution of a Southern Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and...
by Susana Sampaio-Dias
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book discusses the potential of journalism in contributing to human rights protection, awareness...
by Alan Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to our national parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. Informed, insightful and unafraid, his Wednesday and Saturday columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always essential reading for many thousands...
When Reporters Cross the Line
The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
When Reporters Cross the Line tells the true story of moments when the worlds of media, propaganda, politics, espionage and crime collide, casting journalism into controversy. Its pages feature some of the best-known names in British broadcasting, including John Simpson, Lindsey Hilsum and Charles...
On Company Time
American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2014 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative...
Just a Journalist
On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of transition in U.S. journalism. Calling herself “an accidental activist,” she raises urgent questions about the role of journalists as citizens and participants in the world around them.
Mediating the Message in the 21st Century
A Media Sociology Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook...
The Beholder's Eye
A Collection of America's Finest Personal Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The...
by David Berry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Ethics and Media Culture straddles the practical and ethical issues of contention encountered by journalists. The book's various contributors cover a diversity of issues and viewpoints, attempting to broaden out the debates particularly in relation to Journalism Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology...