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Magnum
Random House 2010; US$ 18.67This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major event in the last fifty years. Wars, famines, natural disasters, social, political and environmental... more...
Stories that Changed America
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 14.95Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act... more...
How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis
SAGE Publications 2012; US$ 43.00Written for students without prior knowledge of linguistics, this is an accessible and systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of media, it enables students to analyze and understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices. more...
Tokyo Vice
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist. Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal corruption,... more...
The Economist Style Guide
Profile 2010; US$ 24.00This expanded tenth edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on the Economists own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which the Economist is renowned. As the introduction says, clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought.... more...
Battling for News
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94Anne Sebba presents a compelling history of the struggles of women to be admitted to professional journalism and so obtain the right to report from places where they were felt to have no place - most notably, war-zones. Sebba, herself a former Reuters reporter, recounts the evolution of the woman reporter, from Miss Wreford during the Risorgimento... more...
Speaking of Journalism
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableVeteran journalist and writing teacher William Zinsser, whose books on writing have sold more than 700,000 copies, presents 11 of his most successful students discussing what it is like to work as a journalist in the 1990s. more...
Dokufiction? Living History? Histotainment? Der Archäologe im Fernsehen zwischen Reenactment und Computeranimation
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 38.56Hauptbeschreibung Wissenschaftsjournalismus boomt. In Radio, Zeitung, Fernsehen und Internet platzieren eigenständige Wissenschaftsredaktionen Sendungen und Formate. Einige private Programmbetreiber haben inzwischen eigene Dokumentationskanäle gegründet und bestücken das Programm mit Wissenssendungen aller Art. Mit einer solchen Spezialisierung lässt... more...
Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control . . .
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.00This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting. With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly practically invented television journalism. Through... more...
From Pigeons to News Portals
LSU Press 2007; US$ 18.95Ever since the invention of the telegraph, journalists have sought to remove the barriers of time and space. Today, we readily accept that reporters can jet quickly to a distant location and broadcast instantly from a satellite-connected, video-enabled cell phone hanging from their belts. But now that live news coverage is possible from virtually anywhere,... more...









