Journalism category: 1922 books
The Life of Kings
The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach...
Profits and Losses
Business Journalism and Its Role in Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Recognizing the historical importance of business news in journalism, this work asserts that current social attitudes were set in place by 20th-century reporting on finance, business trends, markets, unemployment, governmental economic policy, corporate malfeasance, and the consumer. A comprehensive...
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Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The news media is in the middle of a revolution. Old certainties have been shoved aside by new entities such as WikiLeaks and Gawker, Politico and the Huffington Post. But where, in all this digital innovation, is the future of great journalism? Is there a difference between an opinion column and...
Hard Feelings
Reporting on the Pols, the Press, the People and the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
One of America’s leading reporters collects his most important, entertaining, and enlightening articles, explaining how and why he wrote them.
Hard Feelings represents more than five years of Ken Auletta’s work for The Village Voice, New York magazine, the Daily News, Esquire, and The New Yorker....
Aim for the Heart
Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth—if you aim for the heart with the copy you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your viewers to keep watching. With humor, honesty, and directness, award-winning journalist and author Al...
Everybody's Hacked Off
Why We Don't Have the Press we Deserve and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
A brilliantly written, concise and accessible summary of the Leveson inquiry and a convincing argument for why we need press reform from an expert on the subject, with an introduction by Hugh Grant, a Hacked Off campaigner, recent witness at the Leveson inquiry and presenter of the Channel 4 documentary...
by Wynford Hicks, Adams Sally, Tim Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.
Written by skilled specialist contributors and drawing on a broad...
by James Landers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Today, monthly issues of Cosmopolitan magazine scream out to readers from checkout counters and newsstands. With bright covers and bold, sexy headlines, this famous periodical targets young, single women aspiring to become the quintessential “Cosmo girl.” Cosmopolitan is known for its vivacious...
by Gary Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It...
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
A decade after Hunter S. Thompson’s death, his books—including Hell’s Angels, The Curse of Lono, The Great Shark Hunt, and Rum Diary—continue to sell thousands of copies each year, and previously unpublished manuscripts of his still surface for publication. While Thompson never claimed to...
High Notes
Selected Writings of Gay Talese
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A selection of classic high points in the illustrious career of Gay Talese.
"[High Notes] reminds us of the indefatigable reporting skills and inventive use of language that made Talese a paragon of the New Journalism.†? -New York Times Book Review
Admired by generations of reporters,...
Watchdogs of Democracy?
The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled...
by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers—especially the San Francisco Examiner—and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books,...