Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities. From 1925, the KIA was owned and edited by the Barry family of Louisville: by John J. Barry to 1950, and by his son Michael to its demise in 1968.

This anthology focuses on the Mike Barry years -- a time of Cold War and Vietnam, of Kennedy, Nixon, McCarthy, Goldwater, and Happy Chandler. Under Mike's brilliant editorship, the KIA offered its readers a richly textured, pungent voice that...

Journalism as applied to science and medicine

Medical Journalism: Exposing Fact, Fiction, and Fraud provides comprehensive guidance to this specialized segment of the journalism field. From journalism fundamentals to niche topics such as separating science fact from science fiction, this book provides in-depth insight while applying the industry's rigorous standards to a specialty that has come to be treated more like entertainment than news. Extensive discussion on pitfalls shows you how to avoid the hallmarks of bad scientific reporting, and a central theme...

Expanded and updated sections address pagination, verifying information, grammar, wordiness, editing...

Print and broadcast students and journalists will find far more than the standard interviewing tips, including:

• The qualitative differences between -hard news' interviews and feature or profile story interviews
• Strategies for obtaining hard-to-get interviews
• Methods for managing...

The rules for winning a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing are simple, yet demanding: the prize is awarded for -a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.- For over two decades, the Pulitzer has been given annually to journalists whose...

What compels us to look at shocking photographs or, alternatively, to look away? Should the media use disturbing images to inform, at the risk of offending? How is our sense of politics, morality, and culture affected when we are exposed to gruesome images of accidents and disasters, murder and execution, grief and death?

In Body Horror, John Taylor addresses these questions by examining how the media presents unsettling pictures, especially those of dead and injured "foreigners." Drawing on recent experiences in the Gulf, Bosnia and Rwanda, Taylor argues that documentary...