Journalism category: 1922 books
by Bruce Garrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Professional Feature Writing provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with...
by Frank Barnas
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 7th Edition is the leading book covering all aspects of writing and reporting the news. It identifies the key concepts and terms readers need to know in the news gathering and dissemination process, and provides practical, real-world advice for operating...
Media in Hong Kong
Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book examines the Hong Kong media over a forty year period, focusing in particular on how its newspapers and TV stations have struggled for press freedom under the colonial British administration, as well as Chinese rule.
Making full use of newly declassified material, extensive interviews...
Guardians of Power
The Myth of the Liberal Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
"Guardians of Power ought to be required reading in every media college. It is the most important book about journalism I can remember." John Pilger
"Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the distortions of ideological prisms, has never been more important....
Print News and Raise Hell
The Daily Tar Heel and the Evolution of a Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
For over 125 years, the Daily Tar Heel has chronicled life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at times pushed and prodded the university community on issues of local, state, and national significance. Thousands of students have served on its staff, many of whom have gone on to...
by Michael Mould
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The Routledge Dictionary of Cultural References in Modern French reveals the hidden cultural dimension of contemporary French, as used in the press, going beyond the limited and purely lexical approach of traditional bilingual dictionaries.
Even foreign learners of French who possess a good...
Docudrama on European Television
A Selective Survey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
This book explores docudrama as a creative response to troubled times. With generic characteristics formed via traditions in theatre as well as film, and with claims to fact underscored by investigative journalism, television docudrama examines key events and personalities in unfolding national histories. Post-Fall...
A Deal with the Devil
The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down the mysterious French psychic at the center of an international scam targeting the elderly and emotionally vulnerable, resulting in an exposé of one of the longest running cons in history.
While...
Lynzsea Sky
An American True Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Author published popular Rozek's newsletter in 1990s, which was called "antimedia media" by Wired and featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and on NPR's "Talk of the Nation."
Focus on dialogue to tell Lynzsea's story makes for easy reading. Reader...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2012 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and...
Political Pioneer of the Press
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career,...
by Greg McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
What is the role of the war reporter today? Through interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson The War Correspondent delves into the most dangerous form of journalism.*BR* *BR*From Crimea to Vietnam, the Falklands to the...
Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture
Public Opinion and Emotional Authenticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.
Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians, and Other Persons of Interest
Fifty Pieces from the Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad. However, his memory keeps turning home and many of his most treasured stories transpire in the Deep South. He called...