Journalism category: 1922 books
West of the West
Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as...
The Renegade Writer Library
The Renegade Writer & From Pitch to Published (2-book bundle)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Save 20% when you buy both The Renegade Writer and From Pitch to Publish in one convenient volume!
In The Renegade Writer, two veteran writers show you how to break the rules of freelancing to score the best assignments...and make more money.
You do what you’re told by the experts:...
by David Shields, David Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process of the “paper of record,” by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over...
Journalistic Authority
Legitimating News in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a relational theory for explaining how journalists attain...
Environmental and Nature Writing
A Writer's Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Offering guidance on writing poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, Environmental and Nature Writing is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing about the environment in a wide range of genres. With discussion questions and writing prompts throughout, Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writers'...
Fighting Words
Canada's Best War Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings' fight with North American Natives, through New France's struggle for survival against the Iroquois and British, to the American Revolution,...
by Chris Frost
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A hugely beneficial introduction to students and professionals in print media and design, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines offers guidance on how to produce attractive publications and how to tailor them to their target audience using colour, text placement, typography and images.
Written...
Photocommunication Across Media
Beginning Photography for Professionals in Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Photocommunication Across Media is a must-have for aspiring mass media professionals who are striving to compete in the new landscape of convergence journalism and media. You will learn principles of photography both still and video and how to incorporate them into your storytelling. That’s no longer...
Transparency 2.0
Digital Data and Privacy in a Wired World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Transparency 2.0 investigates a host of emerging issues around the collision of information and personal privacy in a digital world. Delving into the key legal concepts of information access and privacy, such as practical obscurity, the U.S. Supreme Court’s central purpose test, and Europe’s
emerging...
The Food Section
Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Food blogs are everywhere today but for generations, information and opinions about food were found in the food sections of newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s, these sections were housed in the women’s pages of newspapers—where women could hold an authoritative voice....
Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call
Activist Voice for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book on publisher and editor Lucile H. Bluford examines her journalistic writings on social, economic, and political issues; her strong opinionated views on African Americans and women; and whether there were consistent themes, biases, and assumptions in her stories that may have influenced news...
by Libby Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interviews with journalists themselves, Lewis examines how raced Black journalists and their journalism organizations process their circumstances and...
Journalistic Ethics
Moral Responsibility in the Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media examines the moral rights and responsibilities of journalists to provide what Dale Jacquette calls “truth telling in the public interest.” With 31 case studies from contemporary journalistic practice, the book demonstrates the immediate practical...
That or Which, and Why
A Usage Guide for Thoughtful Writers and Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major writing stumbling blocks, from the wonderful world...