Journalism category: 1922 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This delightful selection of over 300 items of correspondence over the last century shows precisely why. As a forum for debate, playground for opinion-formers, advertising space for decision-makers and noticeboard for eccentrics, nothing...
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
H. L. Mencken's diary was, at his own request, kept sealed in the vaults of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library for a quarter of a century after his death. The diary covers the years 1930 -- 1948, and provides a vivid, unvarnished, sometimes shocking picture of Mencken himself, his world, and his friends...
The Sweetest Thing
A Boxer's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary...
Best Sex Writing 2013
The State of Today's Sexual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The Best Sex Writing series has has fundamentally changed the way people think—and what they say—about sexuality. Once again, Rachel Kramer Bussel has collected the year’s most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocative subject. The essays here comprise a detailed,...
Don't You Know Who I Am?
Insider Diaries of Fame, Power and Naked Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to the list: the moment I sang a duet to the the "Macarena" with Timmy Mallett, live to millions of people...'
Sacked from his high-profile...
A State of War Exists
Reporters in the Line of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
"The worst moment in a war was my fear I would not be sent to it." So wrote the young Michael Nicholson, a reporter whose astonishing career has covered eighteen major conflicts. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War, A State of War Exists sees the veteran...
Reporting War
How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number...
Galway of the Races
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Born of a Belfast manse, Robert Lynd (1879-1949) became one of the most graceful and favoured writers of the early century, and had some thirty books published in his lifetime. The essays in Galway of the Races represent his writings on Ireland (Protestant and Papish, with accounts of Connolly, Kettle,...
Extra! Extra!
How the People Made the News
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
From the mid-19th-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the 20th-century dominance of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star, the story of Auckland's newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about the history of the people and the press in New...
In the Place of Justice
A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Wilbert Rideau, an award-winning journalist who spent forty-four years in prison, delivers a remarkable memoir of crime, punishment, and ultimate triumph.
After killing a bank teller in a moment of panic during a botched robbery, Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death at the age of nineteen. He...
In Harm's Way
Bosnia: A War Reporter's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Martin Bell's was BBC TV's principal correspondent during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995. The original version of this passionate and personal account of the conflict was written while the war was still going on, some of it late at night in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. In Harm's Way is not only...
Stripping Bare the Body
Politics Violence War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power....
by Wendy Law-Yone
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises...
When Private Talk Goes Public
Gossip in American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.