Journalism category: 1922 books
Censored 2014
Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news...
A Most Disorderly Court
Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In the 1970s, justices on the Florida Supreme Court were popularly elected. But a number of scandals threatened to topple the court until public outrage led to profound reforms and fundamental changes in the way justices were seated.
One justice abruptly retired after being filmed on a high-roller...
Roots of Revolution
The Press and Social Change in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Rebels of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. —Inscription dated April 11, 1919, one day after the assassination of Emiliano Zapata, carved on a post at the Borda Garden in Cuernavaca, seen by Frank Tannenbaum in 1923. Peace by Revolution, An Interpretation of...
The Opinions of Mankind
Racial Issues, Press, and Progaganda in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
During the Cold War, the Soviets were quick to publicize any incident of racial hostility in the United States. Since violence by white Americans against minorities was the perfect foil to America’s claim to be defenders of freedom, news of these occurrences was exploited to full advantage by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
"We knew from the beginning how critical it was to have our own publication, to set forth our agenda for freedom...to urge change, to use the pen alongside the sword," writes David Hilliard in the preface to this stunning collection of pages from the original groundbreaking editions of the Black Panther...
War Report
The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war correspondent's view of war traces...
The New Censorship
Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our...
Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City
Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay’s...
Stories that Changed America
Muckrakers of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired...
The Sun Tyrant
A Nightmare Called North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
When Londoner JP Floru tags along with three friends running the marathon in Pyongyang, little could have prepared him for what he witnessed.
Shown by two minders what the regime wants them to see during their nine-day trip, the group is astounded when witnessing people bowing to their leaders'...
by Marianne David, Yolanda Pérez Sinusía, Javier Muñoz-Basols
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language.
With a focus on writing as a craft, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish offers a rich selection of original materials...
Censored 2005
The Top 25 Censored Stories
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...
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds
LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom...
Poison Penmanship
The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter...