Journalism category: 1922 books
And Then There's This
How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Breaking news, fresh gossip, tiny scandals, trumped-up crises-every day we are distracted by a culture that rings our doorbell and runs away. Stories spread wildly and die out in mere days, to be replaced by still more stories with ever shorter life spans. Through the Internet the news cycle has been...
Writing for Others, Writing for Ourselves
Telling Stories in an Age of Blogging
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Using a narrative thread that ties practical advice to his personal experience as reporter, blogger and professor, Jerry Lanson fills his new book on nonfiction writing with time-proven techniques to beat writer's block and hone the skills necessary to write well. Examples from Lanson's own work as...
by Graham Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
The seventh in a series chronicling the remarkable history of The Times newspaper and the media mogul who bought and reshaped it in the early 1980s. This volume looks at the history of one of Britain’s most venerable newspapers since its takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1981, and the many changes that...
by James Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Here are the incredible newspaper headlines that document history’s most important moments-headlines so momentous that anyone reading them knew that the world as they knew it had been changed irrevocably. Headlines That Changed the World looks at stories from the Great Western Crosses the Atlantic...
by Jeremy Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor is a great exception to the rule. Growing up surrounded by astonishing wealth (the family home was so large it included a miniature railway to transport meals to the dining room) Astor’s early life was far from idyllic....
We Do Our Part
Toward a Fairer and More Equal America
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Charles Peters tells the story of “how Democrats lost their way—and how they can find it again” (The Washington Post) in a book “full of vivid, funny, often touching anecdotes” (The Atlantic).
“We Do Our Part” was the slogan of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery...
Junk News
The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In this salient critique of the American media, veteran journalist Tom Fenton exposes the dangerous failings of our news organizations and the fundamental problems with how they present world news. Junk News is a stirring call to reform the faltering "fourth estate" and to take the blinders off our citizens for the sake of our security
Scandal
A Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
When the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee’s impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive falling-out with her Sex and the City castmates, or when Ruth Madoff discovered the truth of Bernie’s marital infidelity
by Juan Cruz Ruiz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 4, 2017
El relato de una vida marcada por el oficio invencible del periodismo.
«Este libro es lo más verdadero que he escrito en mi vida. Lo que más me ha dolido escribir.»
Juan Cruz Ruiz (ganador de los premios Canarias de Literatura, Benito Pérez Armas, Azorín de Novela y Nacional de...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Freelance Writing
How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines & How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Everything You Wanted To Know About Freelance Writing combines two popular business of freelance writing books: Business of Freelance Writing: How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines and The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments.
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Work and Other Sins
Life in New York City and Thereabouts
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
**From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy
"Except for a few drinks, nothing is free in Charlie LeDuff's blunt and touching Work and Other Sins. The laughter and wisdom are hard won, the lessons are often painful... the sad tales and wit from the bar rail...
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing
Based on The Wall Street Journal Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1988
Storytelling—how to catch and hold a reader’s interest through artful narration of factual material
William E. Blundell, one of the best writers on one of America's best-written papers—The Wall Street Journal—has put his famous Journal Feature-Writing Seminars into this step-by-step...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the...
by Amy Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Amy Goodman is the best-known voice of independent media today; her radio and television program Democracy Now! is broadcast on over 500 stations nationwide. These punchy, lively columns concentrate Goodman's skill of "going where the silence is" and telling the stories the major media usually...