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After Broadcast News
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 26.00After Broadcast News challenges the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. more...
The Stories That Changed Australia: 50 Years of Four Corners
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; US$ 25.37In the fifty years it's been on air, Four Corners has broken more stories, triggered more headlines, generated more controversy and aired more high quality investigative journalism than any other program in Australia. In today's world of 24-hour news cycles it is an anachronism, "a television miracle" as Kerry O'Brien puts it in his introduction to... more...
Tick... Tick... Tick...
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 11.99An insider's view of the most successful show in the history of TV, 60 Minutes. The most popular TV show in America isn't American Idol, and it's not Survivor. Month in, month out, the most?watched program in America is 60 Minutes, drawing a staggering 25 million viewers in an average week. For its entire 34?year history, 60 Minutes was the brainchild... more...
WikiLeaks
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, from across the political and journalistic spectrum. WikiLeaks poses a series of questions to the status quo in politics, journalism and to the ways we understand political communication. It has compromised... more...
Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites
Grand Central Publishing 2003; US$ 11.99Carlson loosens his signature bowtie and cracks sharp and wise on all things political with acerbic wit and razor sharp insight. In this new book, he applies his deft and amusing hand to the goings-on in our nation's capital. more...
Cultural Chaos
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 35.95Explores the relationship between journalism and power in an globalized news culture, with examples drawn from media coverage such as of the war on terror, this book provides coverage of topics such as an overview of the evolution of the sociology of journalism. It examines implications of various trends on journalism and political processes. more...
Talking Back
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 15.00No TV reporter today is more respected than NBC?s Andrea Mitchell. She?s covered stories from Jonestown to the fall of the Berlin Wall, gotten unexpected answers from such interviewees as Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton, and balanced her high-wire career with a very public marriage to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Dr. Alan Greenspan. Mitchell?s... more...
News Culture
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 151.00News Culture is an introduction to the forms, practices, institutions, and audiences of journalism. It begins with a historical consideration of the rise of ''objective'' reporting in newspaper, radio, and televisual journalism. It then explores the way news is produced, its textual conventions as a genre of discourse, and its negotiation by the reader,... more...
Ending the Affair
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95Examines the state of current affairs television in Australia today by pondering its future, while drawing lessons from the past. The book questions the social and political value of what we now think of as current affairs journalism. Underpinning this approach is the conviction that TV current affairs serves functions which are important to a civilised... more...
Power of the News Media
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 45.00Power of the News Media helps readers understand the function of the news media, how it shapes attitudes, and how to evaluate its content. This important volume provides a useful tool for librarians, teachers, and others concerned with education and media issues. Providing a variety of perspectives and drawing on books, articles, and Internet sources,... more...









