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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...
Online News
McGraw-Hill Education 2006; US$ 151.00Providing an analysis of online news, this book offers insights into key debates concerning the ways in which journalism is evolving on the internet, devoting particular attention to the factors influencing its development. This book shows how the forms, practices and epistemologies of online news are conventionalized. more...
News Culture
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 158.00News Culture offers a timely examination of the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. Having highlighted a range of pressing issues confronting the global news industry today, it proceeds to provide a historical consideration of the rise of 'objective' reporting in newspaper, radio and television news. more...
News, Gender and Power
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.95How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? News, Gender and Power... more...
The Stewart/Colbert Effect
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been named on Time magazine's list of the most influential people in the world. The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore... more...
Amateur Images and Global News
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00Modern technology has enabled anyone with a digital camera or cell phone to capture images of newsworthy events as they develop, and news organizations around the world increasingly depend on these amateur images for their coverage of unfolding events. However, with globalization facilitating wider circulation, critics have expressed strong concern... more...
News Flash
Wiley 2004; US$ 26.95While talking heads debate the media's alleged conservative or liberal bias, award-winning journalist Bonnie Anderson knows that the problem with television news isn't about the Left versus the Right--it's all about the money. From illegal hiring practices to ethnocentric coverage to political cheerleading, News Flash exposes how American broadcast... more...
Backstory
Penguin Group US 2004; US$ 15.00It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political ?bias? are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory , Ken Auletta explores why one of America?s most important industries is... more...
Quoting God
Baylor University Press 2005; US$ 34.95Quoting God charts the many ways in which media reports religion news, how media uses the quoted word to describe lived faith, and how media itself influences-and is influenced by-religion in the public square. The volume intentionally brings together the work of academics, who study religion as a crucial factor in the construction of identity, and... more...
The CNN Effect in Action
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area. more...









