Winner, 2007 Tankard Award In March of 1827 the nation's first black newspaper appeared in New York City--to counter attacks on blacks by the city's other papers. From this signal event, The African American Newspaper traces the evolution of the black newspaper--and its ultimate decline--for more than 160 years until the end of the twentieth century. The book chronicles the growth of the black press into a powerful and effective national voice for African Americans during the period from 1910 to 1950--a period that proved critical to the formation and gathering strength of the...
Winner, 2007 Tankard Award In March of 1827 the nation's first black newspaper appeared in New York City--to counter attacks on blacks by the city...
Because news is a weapon of war--affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy--for more than a century America's wartime officials have sought to control or influence the press, most recently by "embedding" reporters within military units in Iraq. This second front, where press freedom and military imperatives often do battle, is the territory explored in "The Military and the Press, "a history of how press-military relations have evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first century in response to the demands of politics, economics, technology, and legal and social forces....
Because news is a weapon of war--affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy--for more than a century America's wartime officials have sough...
From the printing press to the telegraph to the camera and beyond, technology has always been tied closely to journalism. In "The Technology of Journalism," Patricia L. Dooley proposes a history of news that heeds the social and cultural environments in which both technology and the press emerge and exist.
By placing this history solidly in its cultural context, Dooley can explore the effects of shifts in social, economic, and political systems and the impact of war. One such development with far reaching implications was Matthew Brady s use of photography during the Civil War. Growth...
From the printing press to the telegraph to the camera and beyond, technology has always been tied closely to journalism. In "The Technology of Jou...
We are living in what one author describes as highly promotional times. Governments and corporations, nonprofits and special interest groups, all have spin doctors trying to turn the news to their advantage. This increasingly incestuous connection between the practitioners of public relations and journalism has resulted in a troubling shift in power. "Public Relations and the Press" examines how this shift came to be and explores the questions it raises about the role of media in a democratic society and the future of journalism. A democracy works when individuals have access to reliable...
We are living in what one author describes as highly promotional times. Governments and corporations, nonprofits and special interest groups, all have...
Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism. Sims traces more than a century of its history, examining the cultural connections, competing journalistic schools of thought, and innovative writers that have given literary journalism its power. Seminal exmples of the genre provide ample context and background for the study of this style of journalism.
Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism. Sims traces more than a century of its history, examining the cultu...
Consumers of American media find themselves in a news world that has shifted toward more conservative reporting. This book takes a measured, historical view of the shift, addressing factors that include the greater skill with which conservatives have used the media, the media s gradual trend toward conservatism, the role of religion, and the effects of media conglomeration. The book makes the case that the media have managed to not only enable today s conservative resurgence but also ignore, largely, the consequences of that change for the American people."
Consumers of American media find themselves in a news world that has shifted toward more conservative reporting. This book takes a measured, histor...
This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda, how it has evolved from a tradition that includes the work of writers such as Pliny the Elder and Rachel Carson, and argues that the relationship between the media and the audience is an ongoing conversation about what matters.
This history of environmental journalism looks at how the practice now defines issues and sets the public agenda, how it has evolved from a tradition ...
This wide-ranging collection of critical essays on literary journalism addresses the shifting border between fiction and non-fiction, literature and journalism.
"Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century" addresses general and historical issues, explores questions of authorial intent and the status of the territory between literature and journalism, and offers a case study of Mary McCarthy s 1953 piece, "Artists in Uniform," a classic of literary journalism.
Sims offers a thought-provoking study of the nature of perception and the truth, as well as issues facing journalism today."
This wide-ranging collection of critical essays on literary journalism addresses the shifting border between fiction and non-fiction, literature an...
Western expansion and journalism have had a symbiotic relationship. By examining this relationship along its entire timeline, this book argues that newspapers played a crucial role in pushing aside both wildlife and Native Americans to make room for the settlers who would become their readers.
Western expansion and journalism have had a symbiotic relationship. By examining this relationship along its entire timeline, this book argues that ne...
This examination of nineteenth-century journalism explores the specific actions and practices of the publications that provided a true picture of slavery to the general public. From Boston's strident Liberator to Frederick Douglass' North Star, the decades before the Civil War saw more than forty newspapers founded with the specific aim of promoting emancipation. Not only did these sheets provide a platform for discourse, but they also gave slavery a face for a wider audience. The reach of the abolitionist press only grew as the fiery publications became...
This examination of nineteenth-century journalism explores the specific actions and practices of the publications that provided a true picture of s...
