Journalism category: 1922 books
by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His study...
The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat is based on more than one hundred interviews with employees of the Democrat, including editors, reporters, feature writers, cartoonists, circulation managers, business managers, salespeople, typesetters and others, from the 1930s through the early 1990s,...
I Have Seen the Future
A Life of Lincoln Steffens
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
“A fascinating history of the age when magazine writers steered national opinion . . . This is an extraordinary book about a complex man.” —American Journalism Review
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens, an internationally known and respected political insider, went...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'Entertaining, amusing, even inspirational. Above all, what every good reporter aims to deliver, a great read.' Peter Cole, Professor of Journalism at the University of Sheffield
'American newsrooms need to buy this inspiring book by the carton. David Randall's gripping collection of profiles...
Outrage, Inc.
How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From Derek Hunter—one of the most entertaining political writers today—comes an insightful, alarming look at how progressives have taken over academia, pop culture, and journalism in order to declare everything liberal great, and everything great, liberal.
Progressives love to attack conservatives...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons,...
The Ink Trade
Selected Journalism 1961 - 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
"The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions …" (Anthony Burgess)
Despite his modest claims, Anthony Burgess was an enormously prolific journalist. During his...
Journalism in an Age of Terror
Covering and Uncovering the Secret State
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups have prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation permitting collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account,...
My Trade
A Short History of British Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage to...
Race and News
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths that are reflected in routine coverage by journalists all over the country. Race and News: Critical...
Show Me the Money
Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Show Me the Money is the definitive business journalism textbook that offers hands-on advice and insights into the job of a business journalist. Chris Roush draws on his experience as both a business journalist and educator to explain how to cover businesses, industry and the economy, as well as where...
Engaged Journalism
Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Engaged Journalism explores the changing relationship between news producers and audiences and the methods journalists can use to secure the attention of news consumers. Based on Jake Batsell's extensive experience and interaction with more than twenty innovative newsrooms, this book shows that, even...
Tell Me No Lies
Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first Westerner to enter Hiroshima following the atomic...
Pulling Newspapers Apart
Analysing Print Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise.
The book offers a detailed examination of features which...