A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States 'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' Independent When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until his retirement, kept the world in touch with what was happening in America. Cooke's wry, humane and liberal style both informed and entertained his audience. The selection here, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It covers key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through to the Vietnam War and Watergate to 9/11, the Iraq War and anticipates the 2004 elections. It includes portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King, Jr, and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall. Each Letter contributes to a captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man.

"This book is fearless and luminous and full of grace; it travels to the edge of death and finds life there. Its attention to the particulars of love - between the ones who will go and the ones they will leave - is something close to sublime."--Leslie Jamison, author of "The Empathy Exams"A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important.Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travels to Tras-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations.Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques's book speaks about death in a fresh way.Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and journalist. She was born in Oporto in 1976 and now lives in Lisbon, where she writes for "Publico" and "Jornal de Negocios." Between 2005 and 2010 Moreira Marques lived in London, working at the BBC World Service while also serving as a correspondent for Portuguese newspaper "Publico." Her journalism has won several prizes, including the Premio AMI--Jornalismo Contra a Indiferenca and the 2012 UNESCO "Human Rights and Integration" Journalism Award (Portugal).Julia Sanches's translations have appeared in "Suelta," "The Washington Review," "Asymptote," "Two Lines," and "Revista Machado," amongst others. She currently lives in New York City.

Waldimar Pelser se politieke kruisverhoor.

Hy noem Julius Malema 'n “rassis, diktator en fascis”, die ANC “ 'n spul kripvreters” en oudpres. Jacob Zuma 'n “korrupte, seksistiese politieke tsotsi”.

Waldimar Pelser ontsien niks en niemand nie. Week ná week neem hy politici en besluitnemers onder kruisverhoor. In sy vreeslose en vlymskerp inleidings tot kykNET Verslag se aktuele TV-program In Gesprek laat hy maghebbers behoorlik deurloop - ook pres. Cyril Ramaphosa en DA-leier Mmusi Maimane het al hul beurt gekry.

In Gesprek met Waldimar is 'n versameling van die 100 beste, lekkerste en dapperste van hierdie inleidings. In forensiese detail pak Pelser elke gek en skurk wat wil keer dat ons land floreer. Hy wys hoe naby ons aan die afgrond was en hoe ons wéér daar kan beland as ons nie dié in beheer tot verantwoording roep nie.

Waldimar Pelser is redakteur van die Sondagkoerant Rapport. Hy is al drie keer met 'n ATKV-Mediaveertjie as beste aanbieder van 'n nuus- of aktualiteitsprogram bekroon. Voor sy joernalistieke loopbaan het hy in die regte en die joernalistiek aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch gestudeer en daarna 'n meestersgraad aan die Oxford-universiteit in Engeland verwerf.

With the work of journalists under fire around the world, this year's anthology of National Magazine Awards finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. These pieces from writers driven to explore America's fault lines include Shane Bauer's harrowing "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard" (Mother Jones), a visceral portrait of the abuses of the carceral system, and Sarah Stillman's account of the havoc wreaked on young people's lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (The New Yorker). In two different considerations of parenting, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (New York Times Magazine) and Michael Chabon takes his thirteen-year-old son to Fashion Week in Paris (GQ). Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivor's life (Texas Monthly), and Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (New York Times Magazine). Other selections take up the shocks of the election, including Matt Taibbi's irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (Rolling Stone) and George Saunders's transfixing account of Trump's rallies (The New Yorker). Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obama's foreign-policy legacy with the president (The Atlantic), Andrew Sullivan fears for the future of democracy (New York), and Gabriel Sherman relates how the women of Fox News brought to light Roger Ailes's predations (New York). Joining them are Rebecca Solnit's wide-ranging Harper's commentary, Becca Rothfeld's pondering women waiting from The Odyssey to Tinder (Hedgehog Review), and bold expeditions into nature: David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (National Geographic), and Mac McClelland sets off for Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Audubon).

Das Buch beinhaltet die Beitrage einer internationalen Tagung in Peking im September 2011. Aus chinesischer und deutscher Sicht werden Aspekte von Deutsch als Fremdsprache, chinesisch-deutschen Kulturbeziehungen und interkultureller Kommunikation diskutiert. Dabei zeigt sich ein breites Spektrum von inhaltlichen und methodischen Herangehensweisen, durch die die Vielfalt, aber auch die Heterogenitat des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses zum gleichen Thema in den beiden Landern deutlich wird: tagesaktuelle Themen, theoretisch grundlegende und systematische Abhandlungen, pragmatische Fragestellungen bis hin zu kommunikationsphilosophischen Reflexionen. Der Band selbst ist so ein Beispiel interkultureller Kommunikation.

What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a news story? A refugee family, the survivor of a shooting, a primary voter in Iowa-the views and experiences of ordinary people are an important component of journalism. While much has been written about how journalists work and gather stories, what do we discover about the practice of journalism and attitudes about the media by focusing on the experiences of the subjects themselves? In Becoming the News, Ruth Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories-voluntarily or not-sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media. Based on dozens of interviews with news subjects, Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Palmer charts the arc of the experience of "making" the news, from the events that brought an ordinary person to journalists' attention through the decision to cooperate with reporters, interactions with journalists, and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath. She explores what motivates someone to talk to the press; whether they consider the potential risks; the power dynamics between a journalist and their subject; their expectations about the motivations of journalists; and the influence of social media on their decisions and reception. Pointing to the ways traditional news organizations both continue to hold on to and are losing their authority, Becoming the News has important implications for how we think about the production and consumption of news at a time when Americans distrust the news media more than ever.

Protest. A word indissociable from the year 2011. In America, Occupy Wall Street protestors took up tented residence across the country to demonstrate against crony capitalism. Spurred by events in Tunisia, Egypt erupted in a people's revolution that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak. Popular unrest has been brewing since the imposition of austerity measures in Greece and Spain. Meanwhile, the evening news continues to cover these events in one-and-a-half minute intervals accompanied by a flood of images, making these events difficult to assess. "News" represents an innovative collaboration between journalist Susanne Fischer and artist Monika Huber. A former reporter in Baghdad, Fischer has on-the-ground experience with revolutionary events and has brought together contributions that present a balanced view of the Arab Spring, including essays exploring freedom of the press and the role of the Internet in enabling revolution. Huber draws more broadly on events that have dominated television coverage in the past year, including Occupy Wall Street, the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the earthquake and nuclear reactor accident in Japan, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, and the mass killings in Norway. Photographing and manipulating images from the news, she creates photo-art that casts a critical eye on the selection, presentation, and perception of these images. With many of the uprisings showing no signs of abating, the words and images in "News" together offer a fresh look at the issues that exceeds what we can find in traditional journalism.

Come and walk the offbeat world of Mike Strobels popular column in the Toronto Sun. Meet the legendary panhandler Shaky Lady; the Weasel, who knows where Jimmy Hoffa is buried; the secretive swinger Sexy Boots; the notorious Bicycle Bandit, who quit robbing banks, got a loan, and opened a bar; and Dr. Hook, the top doc whose professional fate rested on the cut of his jib. Youll also get a look at a fake orgasm champ, a practising witch turned beauty pageant queen, a boss cannonballer, and assorted other heroes, rogues, athletes, finks, politicos, celebrities, bureaucrats, sons, and lovers.

Each column in this collection is a mini-world, tight and bright.

Youll smile at Strobels take on the fads, fashions, morals, and hot topics of the day. Even the most serious issues are dissected and dispatched with often biting wit and cheek.

(Warning: If youre a Montreal Canadiens fan, do not read this book.)

Most famous for his classic work The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn is widely regarded as one of the greatest sportswriters of our time. The Roger Kahn Reader is a rich collection of his stories and articles that originally appeared in publications such as Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, Esquire, and the Nation. Kahn's pieces, published between 1952 and today, present a vivid, turbulent, and intimate picture of more than half a century in American sport. His standout writings bring us close to entrepreneurs and hustlers (Walter O'Malley and Don King), athletes of Olympian gifts (Ted Williams, Stan Musial, "Le Demon Blond" Guy Lefleur), and sundry compelling issues of money, muscle, and myth. We witness Roger Maris's ordeal by fame; Bob Gibson's blazing competitive fire; and Red Smith, now white-haired and renowned, contemplating his beginnings and his future. Also included is a new and original chapter, "Clem," about the author's compelling lifelong friendship with former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Clem Labine. Written across six decades, this volume shows Kahn's ability to describe the athletes he profiled as they truly were in a manner neither compromised nor cruel but always authentic and up close.

Thoburn H. "Toby" Wiant was a fig h t e r from an early age, and words were his weapons of choice. During World War II, he fought to scoop stories from rival reporters on the front lines as an Associated Press war correspondent. In chronicling the war from the China-Burma-India and European theaters of operation, he skillfully reported the battles of an all-too-real war while often in personal peril. In letters to his parents he revealed his personal reactions to the war. In this remarkable book, his daughter brings together Wiantas printed articles and his private letters. With her aid, we view the war through his eyes as we watch a scrappy boy grow into manhood and an
eager cub reporter develop into a seasoned war correspondent.

Since its relaunch in 1979, "Granta" magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This updated edition of "The Granta Book of Reportage" collects a dozen of the finest and most lasting pieces Granta has published. Featuring distinguished writers and reporters: John Simpson, James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carre, as well as new talents Elana Lappin, Suketu Mehta and Wendell Steavenson, the book covers some of the signal events of our time: the fall of Saigon, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, and the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq.

Foreword by Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize for Economics, 1998) Afterword by Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize, 2014) In 2005, Nick Danziger began to create an archive of photographs documenting the lives of women and children in eight of the world's poorest countries. He returned five years later, and again in 2015. Had the United Nation's millennium development goals made a difference to their lives? The stories he tells - in pictures and words - are unforgettable and have created a unique document, one that reveals the uncomfortable truths of a globalised planet. It is full of hope, sadness, pain, anger and beauty. Some of the women and children Nick followed died through sickness and poverty. One has become the most successful entrepreneur her African border town has ever known. Another - who once dreamed of becoming a banker - is now a gang member in the world's murder capital. Yet another has confronted conformists and successfully changed his gender. The book will stand as a permanent record of their courage and humanity, but also as a reminder that much work still needs to be done if these goals are ever to be met. Too many people in India, Cambodia, Zambia, Uganda, Niger, Honduras, Bolivia and Armenia are still living in extreme poverty, without access to the health and education the goals were supposed to deliver.

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen, Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics. Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is "peopled with questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."

Sind Journalisten Totengraber der deutschen Sprache, weil sie englische Woerter verwenden und diese erst popular machen? Oder gibt es erste Zeichen, dass der Hoehepunkt der Verwendung englischen Wortgutes im Deutschen erreicht ist? Sonja Sagmeister-Brandner, Fernsehjournalistin des ORF, analysiert Vorurteile gegenuber Anglizismen wissenschaftlich und lasst gleichzeitig in die Welt hinter dem "Newsroom" blicken. Ein Buch fur alle, die sich fur Sprachgeschichte und Sprachtrends interessieren. Der empirische Teil untersucht Anglizismen in der ORF-Sprache und stellt Zeit im Bild-Nachrichten und Radio-Nachrichten von OE3 gegenuber. Einblicke in die Geschichte der Anglizismen-Verwendung gibt die diachrone Studie zu Anglizismen in den Radio-Nachrichten der Jahre 1967 bis 2004.

Diese Arbeit beschaftigt sich mit dem Verhaltnis zweier demokratischer Grundwerte zueinander, namlich der Medienfreiheit einerseits und dem Interesse an einer effektiven Strafverfolgung andererseits. Anhand der 53 I Nr. 5 und 97 V StPO beleuchtet die Autorin die Erfordernisse einer Abwagung zwischen der Gewahrleistung einer freien Medienberichterstattung und der Ahndung schwerer Straftaten. Die Studie analysiert die derzeitige Gesetzeslage und arbeitet unter Berucksichtigung der Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts notwendige AEnderungen heraus. Die Ergebnisse werden zu einem praktikablen Gesetzesvorschlag zusammengefuhrt, welcher die Konflikte zwischen dem Interesse an einer effektiven Strafverfolgung und dem Schutz der Medienfreiheit durch ausgewogene Regelungen aufloest.

In recent years marketing has played an ever more important role for daily newspapers and popular magazines. The reader's continuing buying restraint, falling sales, reductions in advertising income and the loss of classified advertising to the Internet, are all symptoms of a crisis. This forces publishing houses to optimize operational processes. Not least the growing competition, both with electronic media and between publishers leads to an ever-increasing importance of the marketing department for the success of the business. Peter Brummund, who has spent years in leading positions in the branch himself, takes a look at this business aspect of the press. In keeping with the practical needs of the specialist reader, the author summarizes the sales and marketing structures of the press: the "classical" and the new marketing channels, engendered by new technology such as the Internet, digital printing and satellite transmissions. The different marketing channels using subscriptions, individual sales, readers clubs and direct marketing are explained in detail, as are elementary mechanisms such as disposition, remittance, fixed prices and discounts. The way press wholesalers function is presented with the general technical and legal conditions and enlarged upon using concrete case studies.

In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted or prestigious than a National Magazine Award. Annually, members of the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, select the year's most dynamic, original, provocative, and influential magazine stories. The winning and finalist pieces in this anthology represent outstanding work by some of the most eminent writers in America as well as rising literary and journalistic talents. This prestigious collection includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert's investigation into global warming in the "New Yorker" and James Bamford's look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in "Rolling Stone" to Chris Heath's remarkable profile of Merle Haggard in "GQ" and Bill Heavey's hilarious account of teaching his daughter to fish in "Field and Stream." Other writers include David Foster Wallace ( "The Atlantic Monthly"), Joyce Carol Oates ( "The Virginia Quarterly Review"), Priscilla Long ( "The American Scholar"), Jesse Katz ( "Los Angeles Magazine"), Marjorie Williams ( "Vanity Fair"), Hendrik Hertzberg ( "New Yorker"), Sven Birkerts ( "The Virginia Quarterly Review"), Erik Reece ( "Harper's"), Wendy Brenner ( "The Oxford American"), John Jeremiah Sullivan ( "GQ"), James Wolcott ( "Vanity Fair"), and Wyatt Mason ( "Harper's").

Wide-ranging in their style and subjects, these writers' stories inform, surprise, entertain, and provide new perspectives on our world. They also reflect elements that distinguish the best in magazine writing: moral passion, investigative zeal, vivid characters and settings, persistent reporting, and artful writing.

Erholungsangebote fur den harten Alltag im Nationalsozialismus? Fluchtfahrzeuge fur Eskapisten? Oder doch erfolgreiche Instrumente der Integration und Propaganda? Produkte einer modernen Popularkultur waren bis 1945 zentraler Bestandteil des Alltags im 'Dritten Reich'. Auch wenn die Nationalsozialisten diese Kultur zumindest in Teilen von ideologischer Warte aus scharf kritisierten, forcierten sie den Ausbau einer auf Massenkonsum orientierten Kulturindustrie; zugleich versuchten sie freilich, deren Produkte zu beeinflussen und zu bestimmen. Literatur- und Medienwissenschaftler sowie Historiker verorten in diesem Band u. a. Tierfilme, Science-Fiction, Arztromane und popularwissenschaftliche Zeitschriften im Kultur- und Propagandabetrieb des 'Dritten Reiches'. Sie analysieren die Versuche zur Formierung der Unterhaltungsliteratur, beleuchten Phanomene wie die Inszenierung von Volksgemeinschaft im Fussballfilm, Theatertourneen fur die Arbeiter der Reichsautobahn sowie die Prasenz von Blondinen und anderen Popularmythen in Propagandaflugblattern. Biographische Fallstudien beschaftigen sich mit der Stellung von Autoren wie Hans Dominik, Ernst Kreuder, Hans Fallada und Erich Kastner in der NS-Kulturindustrie. Die Beitrage zeigen, wie weit sich Nationalsozialismus und gute Unterhaltung miteinander kombinieren lassen. Sie zeigen aber auch, wo diese Verbindung an die Grenzen der Logik einer kapitalistisch organisierten Kulturproduktion stoesst bzw. mit den ideologischen Anspruchen einer Diktatur kollidiert.

Ausgehend von der Idee des Glasperlenspiels, die Hermann Hesse in seinem gleichnamigen Roman entwirft, haben die Autoren in diesem Band die Moglichkeiten und Grenzen eines solchen Spiels im Umgang mit Wissen ausgelotet. Sie zeigen neue Methoden fur das Wissensmanagement auf und verbinden dafur Erkenntnisse verschiedener Wissenschaftsgebiete wie Logik, System- und Erkenntnistheorie sowie Semiotik, Kognition und Kommunikation. Das begleitende Computerprogramm unterstutzt Leser beim Experimentieren mit Wissen."

For over twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has built a solid reputation by showcasing the greatest sports journalism of the previous year, culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty print and digital publications. Each year, the series editor and guest editor curate a truly exceptional collection. The only shared traits among all these diverse styles, voices, and stories are the extraordinarily high caliber of writing, and the pure passion they tap into that can only come from sports.