Journalism category: 1922 books
Out of Print
Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval: shifts such as declining print subscriptions and rising website visitor numbers are forcing assumptions and practices to be rethought from first principles. The internet is not simply allowing faster, wider distribution of material: digital technology...
by Kate Nelson Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study of the development of the industry from its origins to the present day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of the future. Covering everything from early tailor's catalogues through to contemporary publications...
Popular Media and the American Revolution
Shaping Collective Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The American Revolution—an event that gave America its first real "story" as an independent nation, distinct from native and colonial origins—continues to live on in the public's memory, celebrated each year on July 4 with fireworks and other patriotic displays. But to identify as an...
The First Casualty
A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground.
Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged...
The Death and Life of American Journalism
The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism...
Saving Community Journalism
The Path to Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
America's community newspapers have entered an age of disruption. Towns and cities continue to need the journalism and advertising so essential to nurturing local identity and connection among citizens. But as the business of newspaper publishing collides with the digital revolution, and as technology...
Reinventing Professionalism
Journalism and News in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord takes this pressing issue as his theme and argues that “professional journalism” is both a normative and analytical notion. It refers to reporting that...
Online Journalism in Africa
Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering...
Practising Global Journalism
Exploring reporting issues worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
From this book, you will gain an understanding of the global media marketplace - the technology, the players and the issues. The role of news agencies, sources and networks are explored covering the issues of ethics, global media ownership and control. Find out how journalists are using the web and...
Mixed News
The Public/civic/communitarian Journalism Debate
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today -- the nature and needs of the individual versus the nature and needs of the broader society; theories of communitarianism versus Enlightenment liberalism; independence versus interdependence (vs. co-dependency); negative versus...
Taking Journalism Seriously
News and the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2004
Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy argues that scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one volume and organize it by disparate fields....
by Stephen J.A. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Stephen Ward argues that present media practices are narrowly based within the borders of single country and thus unable to successfully inform the public about a globalized world. Presenting an ethical framework for work in multimedia, the author extends John Rawl’s theories of justice and the human...
High School Journalism: A Practical Guide
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
High school journalists share the same objectives as professional reporters--finding the story, writing the story, and packaging the story so that it appeals to an audience. Understanding how to best accomplish these objectives is key to the student on the newspaper, yearbook or Web site staff, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This collection shows the importance of a comparative European framework for understanding developments in the popular press and journalism between the wars. This was, it argues, a formative and vital period in the making of the modern press. A great deal of fine scholarship on the development of...