Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how 'truthiness' tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short section introductions contextualise the essays and highlight the issues that they raise, creating a coherent study of journalism today.

George Wronkow, in den 20er und 30er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts Journalist beim Berliner Mosse-Verlag, musste Deutschland im Fruhjahr 1933 verlassen und fluchtete uber Danemark nach Frankreich, bevor er 1941 in die USA emigrierte. In seiner Autobiographie schildert er pointiert sowohl die eigene als auch die zeitgeschichtliche Entwicklung vom Kaiserreich zum Nationalsozialismus. Eindrucksvoll beschreibt er das Leben im Pariser Exil, wo er unter anderem beim Pariser Tageblatt und als Rundfunkjournalist tatig war.

Armed with only a telescope, a watch, and a notebook he retrieved from a dead soldier, William Howard Russell spent twenty-two months reporting from the trenches for the Times of London during the Crimean War. A novice in a new field of journalism -- war reporting -- when he first set off for Crimea in 1854, the young Irishman returned home a veteran of three bloody battles, having survived the siege of Sebastopol and watched a colleague die of cholera. Russell's fine eye for detail electrified readers, and his remarkably colorful and hugely significant accounts of battles provided those...

In this account of the growth of newspapers in modern, industrial society, Helen Hughes traces the development of a mass audience through analysis of the origins of the human interest story in the popular ballads of an earlier day. She shows how such commonly found interests as a taste for news of the town, ordinary gossip, and moving or gripping tales with a legendary or mythic quality have reflected the tastes of ordinary folk from the days of illiterate audiences to the present. She explains how these interests ultimately were combined with practical economic and political information...

Journalism is in the middle of sweeping changes in its relationships with the communities it serves, and the audiences for news and public affairs it seeks to address. Changes in technology have blurred the lines between professionals and citizens, partisan and objective bystanders, particularly in the emerging public zones of the blogosphere. This volume examines these changes and the new concepts needed to understand them in the days and years ahead.

With contributions from up-and-coming scholars, this collection identifies key issues and paves the way for further research on the...

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Illustrierte und nichtillustrierte Werbetexte, vor allem in den Anzeigen der Printmedien und den Sendungen der Funkmedien, gehoren zu den Gebrauchstexten, mit denen wir taglich in groer Zahl konfrontiert werden. Als Resultate politischer oder betriebswirtschaftlicher und werbetechnischer Planung und Gestaltung suchen sie in standig wechselnden Strategien, Kreationen und Variationen auf die Entscheidungen ihrer Zielgruppen einzuwirken. Kenntnisse uber die Planungs-, Gestaltungs- und Wirkungszusammenhange sollten bei denen vorausgesetzt werden, die sich mit sprachlichen Verwendungsweisen in...

Toxic spills, acid rain, poor air quality-scarcely a day goes by without a report in the press on an environmental risk issue. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Jersey, a leading state in the production of chemicals, and the state with the largest number of Superfund cleanup sites. How accurate and how extensive is environmental risk reporting in the New Jersey press, and what can be done to improve the quality of its coverage of environmental risk? And what can we learn from the New Jersey experience?

Environmental Risk and the Press sets out to answer these...

The end of communist rule in the Soviet Union brought with it a brave new world of media and commerce. Formerly state-owned enterprises were transformed, often through private ownership, and new corporations sprung up overnight to take advantage of the new atmosphere of freedom.

Until now, most research on media and news production in Russia has focused on the scope of government control and comparisons with the communist era. However, extra-governmental controls and the challenges of operating in a newly capitalist environment have been just as important - if not more so - in the...