Journalism category: 1922 books
Pure Land
A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this journey stretching from the southern tip of Japan to the bottom of Grand...
Mail Men
The Unauthorized Story of the Daily Mail
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Discover the secret history of the paper that has shaped Britain and taken over the world. Perhaps because of the power and fear that the Daily Mail commands, this is the first book to provide an unauthorized account of the newspaper with more global readers than any other. With a gripping personality-led...
Foreign News
Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
Hannerz draws on extensive...
by Scott L. Malcomson; George Packer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we have a chance to see more clearly how they were a turning point in Americas relationship with the world. America became more assertive abroad; its authority and legitimacy as the only superpower became more widely opposed; and the limitations...
Burdens by Water
An Unintended Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
In a series of strangely resilient personal adventures—often beginning with breakups, and fueled by a sense of "invincible longing"—essayist Alan Rifkin flings himself at the last vestiges of the Southern California Dream. He chases summer with a pool man, lives with monks in a Santa Barbara monastery,...
The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research
The Future of the Magazine Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Scholarly engagement with the magazine form has, in the last two decades, produced a substantial amount of valuable research. Authored by leading academic authorities in the study of magazines, the chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research not only create an architecture to organize...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Developing Writing Skills in German, is a unique course designed to improve the reading and writing skills of intermediate students of German. Presenting a wide range of authentic written materials, the book aims to develop reading strategies and the ability to write texts of various types - essays,...
Agamemnon's Kiss
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Agamemnon's Kiss is a moving selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers.
Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum...
Image or imagination? - The problem of photographic represenation
The problem of photographic represenation
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Englisches Seminar), course: Key Terms for Studying Culture, 39 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Altered pictures have always caused...
Fayke Newes
The Media vs the Mighty, From Henry VIII to Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
"Fake news." "Psycho." "Enemy of the people." The insults President Donald Trump and the media hurl at each other are, in fact, nothing new. Over many centuries, journalists have accused governments of being "horrible monsters," with "guilty consciences,"...
Moyers on America
A Journalist and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an “eloquent selection of . . . commentaries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television...
War of Words
Language, Politics and 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In a media age, wars are waged not only with bombs and planes but also with video and sound bites. War of Words is an incisive report from the linguistic battlefields, probing the tales told about September 11th to show how Americans created consensus in the face of terror. Capturing the campaigns...
The Press Effect
Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effect, these stereotypes, while containing some elements of the...
Censored 2011
The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically...