Media : Journalism

Breaking news! This is like having J-school in a book. In recent years, news reporting has dramatically changed. While the basic “who, what, when, where, and why” of journalism is still relevant, aspiring journalists are now asking “How?” The 21st century of blogs, instant internet access, and 24-hour news shows with minute-by-minute updates has made reporting a whole new—and very competitive—business. Here, a newspaper veteran answers every question about the new world of journalism, and explores every possibility for success. —Covers TV, radio, magazine, newspaper, e-zine, podcast, and internet reporting. —Includes a resource list of media outlets, schools, and university programs. —Explores different angles for approaching hard news, entertainment, weather, or sports more...

Price: $18.95

A collection of scholarly essays which illustrate the complexity of the early nineteenth-century conservative publishing milieu. more...

Price: $99.00

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. more...

Price: $14.00

Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the first critical guide to over a million words of vintage Dickens, which have been much overlooked in continuous assessments and re-assessments of his novels. It provides both a biographical and socio-historical account of the main phases of Dickens's career as a journalist, and a critical assessment of the thematic and stylistic development of his work. more...

Price: $79.95

Building on the reflective and questioning approach of the author's acclaimed Journalism: Principles and Practice , this book discusses journalists' personal anecdotes alongside relevant critical studies by academics. Informed by new research and the author's own experience within mainstream and alternative journalism, The Ethical Journalist addresses topics such as trust, the public interest, deception, news values, source relationships, crime reporting, regulation and the Hutton inquiry. This exciting new title discusses ethics as fundamental rather than as a set of problems or an added extra, and it should become essential reading for everyone interested in journalism. more...

Price: $40.95