Journalism category: 1922 books
Media Power and Democratization in Brazil
TV Globo and the Dilemmas of Political Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
In this book, Porto analyzes the role of TV Globo in the democratization of Brazil. TV Globo, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, has a dominant position in Brazil's communications landscape. It also exports telenovelas to more than 130 countries and has established joint ventures with...
Jane Grey Swisshelm
An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited...
Overload
Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today’s citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed.
This is London
Life and Death in the World City
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers.
This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.
This is London as you've never seen it before.
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford...
Cox's Fragmenta II
Further Folios from History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A presumptuous bear who surprised a group of ladies in a coach, an accident involving an actor pretending to be an orangutan, and an aristocrat mistakenly pronounced dead in a newspaper are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox and contained in his Fragmenta....
The Post-Soviet Russian Media
Conflicting Signals
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin...
by John Rentoul
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
A celebration of the age-old tactic beloved by journalists of creating a sensational story out of nothing, this book is a collection of articles that caught the world's attention just from the headline alone
Honoring the journalistic skill of basing an entire article on a fantastically far-fetched...
The News Untold
Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those...
On Camera
How To Report, Anchor & Interview
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
From the Foreword by Bob Schieffer:
"This is a real 'how to' book by two people who really know how. But it is more than just a fine manual on broadcast journalism, journalists and non-journalists alike will find it good read, a treasure chest of anecdotes, stories and a tall tale or two from...
Weighing Anchors
When Network Newscasters Don't Know Write from Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Evening News Stars Often Fail Us. Can You Spot Their Mistakes?
Longtime network newswriter Mervin Block doesn't just watch and hear evening newscasts; he listens. Block, who wrote for Walter Cronkite and other anchors at ABC, CBS and NBC, examines today's network anchors, their scripts and their journalism....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
American democracy is built on its institutions. The Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary, in particular, undergird the rights and responsibilities of every citizen. The free press, for example, protected by the First Amendment, allows for the dissent so necessary in a democracy. How has this...
Confidence Game
The Limited Vision of the News Gurus
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers—Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis—who have dominated the "future of news" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective...
by Jack Webster
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
Jack Webster is one of the most popular journalists writing in Scotland today. Voted Newspaper Columnist of the Year in 1996, his weekly columns in The Herald have won him a huge and loyal audience throughout Scotland. The Herald Years reflects the extraordinarily wide range of Jack's interests, experiences...
The Soul of Central New York
Syracuse Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence at Syracuse University. The beautiful yet tragic connection between Vice President Joseph Biden and...