Journalism category: 1922 books
Maps with the News
The Development of American Journalistic Cartography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.
"A most welcome...
Becoming a Vaticanist
Religious Information in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Informing on the Catholic Church requires some features that go beyond the classical procedures of “simple” journalism: its social outreach is inseparably bound to its spiritual nature and understanding that is the first step in a journalistic narrative that is faithful to reason and the identity...
Talk to Me
How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer's Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
“Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around.”—Anne Lamott
Interviewing...
News Across Media
Production, Distribution and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
News production, distribution and consumption are in rapidly changing due to the rise of new media. This book examines how these processes become more and more interrelated through logics of dissemination, sharing and co-production. These changes have the potential to affect the criteria of newsworthiness...
Constructing Crime
Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Crime and criminals are a pervasive theme in all areas of our culture, including media, journalism, film and literature. This book explores how crime is constructed and culturally represented through a range of areas including Spanish, English Language and Literature, Music, Criminology, Gender, Law, Cultural and Criminal Justice Studies.
Propaganda Blitz
How the Corporate Media Distort Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Do you trust the liberal media? While the tabloid and right-wing press - the Sun, The Times, the Mail and the Express - are constantly criticised for dangerous bias, outlets like the BBC and the Guardian are trusted by their readers to report in the interests of the public. However, the reality is...
The ESPN Effect
Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
ESPN has grown from a start-up cable network in a small Connecticut town to a $50 billion global enterprise. For the past 35 years, ESPN – along with its sister networks – has been the preeminent source for sports for millions around the globe. Its 24-hour coverage of sports news and programming...
Working With Numbers and Statistics
A Handbook for Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists will bolster math skills and improve math confidence for journalists at all skill levels. Authors Charles Livingston and Paul Voakes developed this resource book to improve journalistic writing and reporting, enabling journalists to:
*make...
Editing Across Media
Content and Process for Print and Online Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Requirements for professional media editing have undergone enormous technological change. Editors still edit copy. But today they do much more. Mass media editors must demonstrate skills from computerized pagination to social media monitoring, from image manipulation to Search Engine Optimization....
Investigative Reporting
A study in technique
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This important book defines what investigative reporting is and what qualities it requires. Drawing on the experience of many well-known journalists in the field, the author identifies the skills, common factors and special circumstances involved in a wide variety of investigations. It examines how...
Overcoming Bias
A Journalist's Guide to Culture & Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Journalists go out of their way to avoid purposeful bias in the news. But there is a more pervasive set of internal biases and flaws in thinking that can lead to unintentional inaccuracies and distortions in news coverage. This engaging book offers a fresh take on reporting without bias, targeting...
by George Sylvie, Patricia D. Witherspoon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Time, Change, and the American Newspaper focuses on newspapers as organizations, examining the role of change in the newspaper industry and providing a model from which to view and respond to change. Authors George Sylvie and Patricia D. Witherspoon discuss environmental and organizational influences...
The Press Clause and Digital Technology's Fourth Wave
Media Law and the Symbiotic Web
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
During the first part of the twenty-first century, bloggers, citizen journalists, social media users, Yelp reviewers, and a myriad of other communicators have found themselves facing defamation, privacy, campaign finance, and other lawsuits as a result of the messages they have communicated. In many...
The Discourse of News Values
How News Organizations Create Newsworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in news media research in offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive construction of news values through words and images. Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed empirical analysis to introduce...