Journalism category: 1922 books
When the News Went Live
Dallas 1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what would happen next, or what any of it meant. For millions of Americans transfixed by the incomparable breaking news, television—for the first time—emerged...
by Albert Londres
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: June 12, 2018
« Je demeure convaincu qu’un journaliste n’est pas un enfant de chœur et que son rôle ne consiste pas à précéder les processions, la main plongée dans une corbeille de pétales de roses. Notre métier n’est pas de faire plaisir, non plus de faire du tort, il est de porter la plume dans...
A Saturnalia of Bunk
Selections from The Free Lance, 1911–1915
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
H. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun....
Albert Londres et la Chine
Les tragiques journées de Changhaï (25 articles) suivi de La Chine en Folie (22 articles)
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2019
En février et mars 1932, Albert Londres envoie ses derniers articles au quotidien « Le Journal » depuis la Chine. Ce sont ici tous ses articles si précieux tant par leurs qualités journalistiques que sociologiques ou historiques, que nous réunissons dans un unique volume, suivi de « La Chine...
El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo
Historia, política, sociedades y culturas
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
El mundo hispanohablante contemporáneo: historia, política, sociedades y culturas is a comprehensive and innovative book for advanced students of Spanish.
Offering a constructivist approach to the study of the civilizations, cultures and histories of the contemporary Spanish-speaking world,...
935 Lies
The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government “of the people, by the people and for the people,” requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction...
Censored 2017
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across...
Censored 2016
The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2014#15
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Censored 2016 features the top-25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and...
Flirting with Danger
Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Former star correspondent for CNN, Siobhan Darrow covered the world’s hottest war zones over the last two decades, reporting from the front lines in Moscow, Chechnya, the Balkans, Albania, Israel, and Northern Ireland. Her fearless pursuit of stories placed her in countless life-threatening situations,...
George Orwell Now!
Preface by Richard Blair, Son of George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
George Orwell remains an iconic figure today – even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people’s lives – and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after...
The Next Big Story
My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastating Haiti earthquake, and to the historic 2008 U.S. elections and high profile interviews with everyday Americans....
The Other Face of America
Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world. Writing from his own heartfelt perspective as an immigrant, Jorge Ramos, one of the world’s most popular and well-respected Spanish-language television news broadcasters, listens to...
In the Shadow of the Ancestors
A Journey Through Africa and Into Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
In the Shadows of the Ancestors follows leading Afro-American journalist and writer Hassan Ansah into his penetrating voyage back to his ancestral land. The writing is both an inspirational and transformational journey into the collective heart, mind, and history of the African Diaspora.
Based...
No Borders
A Journalist's Search for Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From his childhood days in Mexico, to his experience of censorship in government–owned Mexican media companies, his student years in LA, and his early beginnings as a journalist in the USA, Ramos gives us a personal and touching account of his life.
With a series of intimate portraits of...