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Transoceanic Radical, William Duane
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00This is the first biography of William Duane to study his American career in light of his formative years in Ireland, England and India. He was an influential radical journalist, most famous as the editor of The Aurora, the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. more...
Around the Bloc
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95Desperate to escape South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent. So she headed to Russia looking for some excitement?commencing what would become a four-year, twelve-nation Communist bloc tour that shattered her preconceived notions of the ?Evil Empire.? In Around the Bloc , Griest relates her experiences as... more...
Making the News
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 45.95Making the News provides a cross-national perspective on key features of journalism and news-making cultures and the changing media landscape in contemporary Europe. . Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change as well as the broader industrial,... more...
Robber Baron
ECW Press 2007; US$ 11.95Based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, and original documents, this biography stands out as the most complete examination of Conrad Black, builder of the world's third-largest media empire, the Telegraph Group. Author George Tombs not only worked in Black's empire, but maintained steady communication with him over the years as a journalist,... more...
Rebel Journalism
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00An anthology of the writing of Wilfred Burchett, perhaps the greatest journalist and war correspondent Australia has ever produced. more...
21st Century Journalism in India
SAGE India 2007; US$ 32.95The Indian media is witnessing an explosive situation with newspaper and magazine. circulations increasing in great numbers and television news channelsin. both English and regional languagesgoing up by the day. Internet news portals,. too, are recording a good number of hits. Journalism, then, holds tremendous promise for both seasoned... more...
News Values
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 49.00Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show business. Detailed chapters include critiques... more...
The American Journalist in the 21st Century
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 48.95An authoritative and detailed illustration of the state of journalistic practice in the United States today, The American Journalist in the 21st Century sheds light on the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century.... more...
Victorian Print Media
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 48.99Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. Victorian Print Media: A Reader consists of edited extracts from nineteenth-century sources which discuss all aspects of the production... more...
Cosmopolitan Publics
Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 39.95Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans"-Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang Shen highlights their work providing readers with a broader understanding of the role and... more...









