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"The Busiest Man in England"
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 100.00This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Allen was educated in France and England. A mysterious marriage while he was an Oxford undergraduate wrecked his academic career and radicalized his views... 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...
24 Days
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99This is the story of Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, the two reporters who led the Wall Street Journal 's reporting on Enron and uncovered the unorthodox partnerships at the heart of the scandal through skill, luck, and relentless determination. It all started in August 2001when Emshwiller was assigned to write a supposedly simple article... more...
The A to Z of Journalism
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Journalism relates how journalism has evolved over the centuries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the different styles of journalism, the different types of media, and important writers and editors. more...
Adventures & Letters of Richard Harding Davis
The Floating Press 1917; US$ 4.99Renowned American journalist Richard Harding Davis helped define the genre of front-line reporting with his first-hand accounts of battlefield action in the Spanish-American war. Later, Davis went on to cover several additional conflicts in his inimitable style. Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a newspaper columnist for several prominent... more...
Adventures in Correspondentland
Random House Australia 2011; US$ 18.08The inside story of the dangers, delights and diversions of life as a foreign correspondent.As a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Nick Bryant has reported from the wilds of Afghanistan, Pakistan, London, Washington and, for the past five years, Australia. Adventures in Correspondentland - his account of these experiences - is part memoir, part travelogue... more...
Advocacy Journalists
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 59.99This book focuses on the lives of journalists and editors who contributed to advocacy journalism. Each entry contains biographical information about the journalists, their professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. more...
African American Journalists
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 39.99In this book Calvin L. Hall examines select autobiographies written by African American journalists_Jill Nelson's Volunteer Slavery, Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler, Jake Lamar's Bourgeois Blues, and Patricia Raybon's My First White Friend_in order to explore the relationship between race, class, gender, and journalism practice. more...
Alan 'The Red Fox' Reid
University of New South Wales Press 2010; US$ 34.95Bold and thorough, this biography traces the life of one of Australia?s most controversial and legendary journalists, Alan ?The Red Fox? Reid, who covered the nation?s politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. Demonstrating how Reid not only reported the news but shaped it due to his connections with Labor Prime Ministers Ben Chifley and John Curtin,... more...
All Governments Lie
Scribner 2010; US$ 33.99Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices. In the world of... more...









