Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the country by storm. One of these papers-the Daily Sun-is now the largest in the country, but it has generated controversy for its perceived lack of respect for privacy, brazen sexual content, and unrestrained truth-stretching. Herman Wasserman examines the success of tabloid journalism in South Africa at a time when global print media are in decline. He considers the social significance of the tabloids and how they play a role in integrating readers and their daily struggles with the political...

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century is the story of a relatively new journalistic beat, environmental reporting. This book explores the development of the environmental beat as a specialty during the last thirty years. It also discusses broader trends within American journalism resulting from technological changes that challenge traditional mediums, especially newspapers and magazines.

The book is divided into three parts. The first reviews the literature and explains the methodology. The second describes the results of the authors' research. The third provides...

Focusing on newspapers, radio and television, this book provides the first systematic investigation of the development of journalism in Iran following the 1979 Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Revolution.

A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lance writer and former American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellow, finds consistently high press coverage of typhoid fever contrasted with media disinterest in diptheria and cautious reporting about syphilis. The press's approaches differed, she explains, because the news media responded to dissimilar social values about typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis at the turn of the century. Ziporyn's observations are...

Gould brings us the lovers, colleagues, rivals, critics, and even the accused murderers of these courageous men and...

Mit der Zukunft des Journalismus beschaftigen sich die Beitrage dieses Bandes unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten: Journalistenausbildung, Medienunternehmen als soziale Organisation, Journalisten und ihre Bindung an professionelle Regeln, Journalismus und das traditionelle Medien-Geschaftsmodell.

Mit Beitragen von Gabriele Bartelt-Kircher, Hans Bohrmann, Hannes Haas, Otfried Jarren, Horst Pottker und Siegfried Weischenberg.