Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

Sign Off takes on network coverage of Three-Mile Island, riots in Miami, sex, the selling of politicians, the "electronic church," hyped-up news programming, and more. It is the third book by Ed Diamond to come out of the News Study Group he heads at MIT. The others, Tin Kazoo and Good News, Bad News are also available in paperback.

Television Field Production and Reporting provides a comprehensive introduction to the art of video storytelling. Endorsed by the National Press Photographers Association, this book focuses on the many techniques and tools available in today's digital landscape, including how drones and miniaturized technology can enrich the storytelling process. The new edition of Television Field Production and Reporting is an absolute must in this visually oriented, rapidly changing field. At its core, visual storytelling helps transmit information, expose people to one another, and...

Das illustrierte Flugblatt des spateren 16. Jahrhunderts lasst tief in die Formen und Strategien der offentlichen Kommunikation dieser Jahre der Fruhen Neuzeit blicken. Es zeugt davon, wie auf der Basis zeitgenossischen Wissens Wirklichkeiten und Identitaten - in diesem Fall: konfessionelle - konstruiert und etabliert wurden. Nicht zuletzt durch seine unlosbare Kombination von Sprache und Bild ist das illustrierte Flugblatt ein relevanter Gegenstand fur eine kulturbezogen arbeitende Sprachgeschichtsforschung, die danach fragt, wie sich Menschen einer bestimmten Zeit und Gesellschaft ihre...

Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked web outlets like the "Huffington Post" thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with stories of horrific crime and celebrity scandal, while the smug sarcasm and shouting of pundits like Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann dominate cable television. Is it any wonder that young people are turning away from the news entirely, trusting comedians like Jon Stewart as their primary source of information on current events?
In the face...

Breaking down the walls of the traditional newsroom, "Rebuilding the News" traces the evolution of news reporting as it moves from print to online. As the business models of newspapers have collapsed, author C. W. Anderson chronicles how bloggers, citizen journalists, and social networks are implicated in the massive changes confronting journalism.

Through a combination of local newsroom fieldwork, social-network analysis, and online archival research, "Rebuilding the News" places the current shifts in news production in socio-historical context. Focusing on the "Philadelphia Inquirer,"...

From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nelson proved himself to be one of those rare reporters whose work affected and improved thousands of...

Fighting Words profiles five journalists who published the truth as they saw it, no matter how their reporting angered politicians, social and religious leaders, or other journalists.

The five journalists are William Brann (1855-1898), Don Biggers (1868-1957), John Granbery (1874-1953), Archer Fullingim (1902-1984), and Stoney Burns Brent Stein] (1942-2011). Though they lived in different eras, all these men dealt with issues that society continues to face--racism, official corruption, religious freedom, educational reform, political extremism of the left and right, the...

As Canadians, we take pride in our nation's official
commitment to fostering diversity. A close look at our media, however,
reveals that while they often pay lip service to diversity promotion,
they actually play a pivotal role in producing and reproducing the
values, structures, and priorities of a predominantly
"straight," white, male society. The Media Gaze
shines a light on the myriad ways that mainstream media -- newscasters,
advertisers, filmmakers, and television programmers -- work to appear
objective, even as they actively ignore or misrepresent the...