Journalism category: 1922 books

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A Writer's Coach

An Editor's Guide to Words That Work

by Jack R. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2006

Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques...
Cover of German/English Dictionary of Idioms
by Hans Schemann
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

This unique dictionary covers all the major German idioms and is probably the richest source of contemporary German idioms available, with 33,000 headwords. Within each entry the user is provided with: English equivalents; variants; contexts and precise guidance on the degree of currency/rarity of...
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Kenntnisse

An Advanced German Course

by Claire S.A. Burke, Edmund Burke, Susanne Parker
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

This topics-based textbook has been devised to meet the needs of modern courses in advanced German at undergraduate level. Features include: * focus on practical language skills, such as writing articles, preparing CVs, translating and interpreting * authentic contemporary texts and original audio...
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The JOIN Principle

An Approach for Facilitating Intercultural, Interdisciplinary Meetings

by Thomas Kurz
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: 1,0 with distinction, University of Salzburg (Cultural and Social Faculty), course: Interpersonal Communication, language: English, abstract: This work describes the creation and first...
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Getting Off at Elysian Fields

Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune

by John Pope
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected...
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National Catholic Reporter at Fifty

The Story of the Pioneering Paper and Its Editors

by Arthur Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014

National Catholic Reporter at Fifty tells the story of the award-winning Catholic paper the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) in the lead-up to NCR’s 50th anniversary in October 2014. Founded during the Second Vatican Council, NCR has been a powerful progressive voice in the Catholic Church and has...
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The Devil Problem

And Other True Stories

by David Remnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014

Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes...
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H.L. Mencken

An Annotated Bibliography

by S. T. Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009

Baltimore native Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an essayist, literary critic, magazine editor, novelist, and journalist. Starting as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald at the turn of the century, Mencken eventually became associated with the Baltimore Sun and his work for the newspaper...
Cover of News and the Human Interest Story
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of...
Cover of Blood on the Lens
by Jim Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007

Murder is an effective way to gain power over others. Kill its leaders, and a country can be yours. Kill the people or ruthlessly intimidate them, and you can control their territory. Kill the journalistsor the storyand the truth of what is happening can be buried. Blood on the Lens chronicles filmmaker...
Cover of Webster's World

Webster's World

Columns from The Herald 1985-97

by Jack Webster
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 1997

For over a decade, Jack Webster's weekly columns in The Herald have delighted his many loyal readers throughout Scotland. Following on from the success of his best-selling Herald Years, this new collection of Jack's finest work is full of warmth, humour and journalistic curiosity that have become...
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Get Your Articles Published

How to write great non-fiction for publication

by Lesley Bown
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010

Get Your Articles Published is a practical step-by-step guide offering you the information you to learn about the market, requirements, practicalities and skills needed to write on a freelance basis for magazines, it covers all major genres from mainstream and lifestyle through to more specialised...
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The Invention of News

How the World Came to Know About Itself

by Andrew Pettegree
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

“A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution” and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post). Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay...
Cover of Collected Columns
by Michael Frayn
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal, razor-sharp explorations...
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