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Unreliable Sources
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 9.58Through many decades of groundbreaking journalism, John Simpson has become not only one of the most recognisable and trusted British personalities, but has transferred his skill to books with multiple bestselling success. With his new book he turns his eye to how Great Britain has been transformed by its free press down the years. He shows how, while... more...
Deadline Artists
Overlook 2011; US$ 14.99America's story has always been best told in its newspapers. From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sunday sermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played an outsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in America have always been the crucible where our passions and debates are tried by... more...
Assignment to Hell
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES In February 1943, a group of journalists?including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney?clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow... more...
Our Man in Paris
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 21.99Since 1997 John Lichfield, The Independents correspondent in France, has been sending dispatches back to the newspaper in London. More than transient news stories, the popular Our Man in Paris series consists of essays on all things French. Sometimes serious, at other times light-hearted, they offer varied vignettes of life in the... more...
Out of the News
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00This is a work of media history and media criticism with a human face. It presents profiles of 11 journalists who left some of the country's biggest mainstream media outlets, and took on new career challenges. Their stories give the reader a vivid sense of what it means to be a reporter and to cover big news events. But this book goes beyond media... more...
The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 159.95Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment... more...
So You Want To Be A Journalist?
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 52.00Explores the world of journalism and contains instructions and practical advice on all facets of reporting. more...
Facts are Sacred Enhanced
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 14.57A fully interactive book designed exclusively for iPad. Packed with films, animations, interactive ways to explore data and beautiful infographics, Facts are Sacred brings the amazing power of data to life. What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread... more...
Fit to Print
University of NSW Press 1999; US$ 7.45Margaret Simons went to Canberra to subject the journalists to a journalist's eye. The result is a penetrating and personal story about a world both extraordinary and ordinary, where the barriers between the personal and the political shift and blur.. 'In both its form and content, this book is a call for a reinvigoration of journalism. It is at... more...
Staying Tuned
Atria Books 2001; US$ 22.99"In May 1999 Kevin Klose, president of National Public Radio, invited me to a meeting of the NPR board and surprised me with a bronze plaque, emblazoned 'Lifetime Achievement Award.' I responded that, ever the copy-reader, I wished to amend the wording to, 'Lifetime Achievement So Far...'" Thus Daniel Schorr, octogenarian, newsman, and last of... more...









