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.

In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America's most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region's largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural forms, from nonfiction films and serial cinema to illustrated police reportage, serial literature, and fan magazines, demonstrating how media spectacles of violence helped audiences make sense of the political instability, high crime rates, and social inequality that came with modernization. In both nations, sensational cinema and journalism-influenced by imported films-forged a common public sphere that reached across the racial, class, and geographic divides accentuated by economic growth and urbanization. Highlighting the human costs of modernization, these media constructed everyday experience as decidedly modern, in that it was marked by the same social ills facing industrialized countries. The legacy of sensational early twentieth-century visual culture remains felt in Mexico and Brazil today, where public displays of violence by the military, police, and organized crime are hypervisible.

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.

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.

So is dit nou is ’n nuwe versameling aangrypende humoristiese stories oor die hede en verlede deur die deurwinterde joernalis en topverkoper-skrywer Johan van Wyk. Die versameling dokumenteer ’n tyd van Padkafees, Pepsi floats en koue skaapnek uit ’n saalsak. Maar dit gaan nie net oor Sondagmiddae met skaapboud, geelrys en rosyntjies nie. In die bundel word die verlede onthou en meesterlik verweef met die hedendaagse Suid-Afrika waar Jacob Zuma en Julius Malema die septer swaai.

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."

What it means when your father dies. How it feels when summer comes. What it's like to live in a great but troubled American city. The value of wearing sunscreen. These are just a few of the topics that Mary Schmich addresses in this second, expanded edition of Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now, a collection of her columns from the Chicago Tribune, including the 10 that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Schmich is the rare newspaper columnist whose writing resonates long after it's published and far beyond the place she lives. She may be best known for a column widely called "Wear Sunscreen"-misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut and turned into a hit recording by Baz Luhrmann-but her writing ranges as widely as life itself. It can be slyly humorous, deeply moving, or tough. She addresses subjects as varied as family love, sexual harassment, long friendships, poverty, and Chicago violence. Every city has its voices, the enduring writers who both explain and create a city's culture. Chicago has had many, including the legendary Mike Royko and Studs Terkel. Mary Schmich is among them. In a hectic age, her writing lifts us, calms us, and helps us understand.

'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, Observer Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection. A growing number of intrepid Arab and Middle Eastern sahafiyat - female journalists - are working tirelessly to shape nuanced narratives about their changing homelands, often risking their lives on the front lines of war. Here, nineteen of these women tell us, in their own words, about what it's like to report on conflicts that (quite literally) hit close to home. Their daring and heartfelt stories, told here for the first time, shatter stereotypes about the region's women and provide an urgently needed perspective on a part of the world that is frequently misunderstood. With a foreword by CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour. INCLUDING ESSAYS BY: Donna Abu-Nasr, Aida Alami, Hannah Allam, Jane Arraf, Lina Attalah, Nada Bakri, Shamael Elnoor, Zaina Erhaim, Asmaa al-Ghoul, Hind Hassan, Eman Helal, Zeina Karam, Roula Khalaf, Nour Malas, Hwaida Saad, Amira Al-Sharif, Heba Shibani, Lina Sinjab, and Natacha Yazbeck

From a certain perspective, the biggest political story of 2016 was how the candidate who bought three-quarters of the political ads lost to the one whose every provocative Tweet set the agenda for the day's news coverage. With the arrival of bot farms, microtargeted Facebook ads, and Cambridge Analytica, isn't the age of political ads on local TV coming to a close? You might think. But you'd be wrong to the tune of $4.4 billion just in 2016. In U.S. elections, there's a lot more at stake than the presidency. TV spending has gone up dramatically since 2006, for both presidential and down-ballot races for congressional seats, governorships, and state legislatures-and the 2020 campaign shows no signs of bucking this trend. When candidates don't enjoy the name recognition and celebrity of the presidential contenders, it's very much business as usual. They rely on the local TV newscasts, watched by 30 million people every day-not Tweets-to convey their messages to an audience more fragmented than ever. At the same time, the nationalization of news and consolidation of local stations under juggernauts like Nexstar Media and Sinclair Broadcasting mean a decreasing share of time devoted to down-ballot politics-almost 90 percent of 2016's local political stories focused on the presidential race. Without coverage of local issues and races, ad buys are the only chance most candidates have to get their messages in front of a broadcast audience. On local TV news, political ads create the reality of local races-a reality that is not meant to inform voters but to persuade them. Voters are left to their own devices to fill in the space between what the ads say-the bought reality-and what political stories used to cover.

Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors and nurses, mothers, wives and siblings who describe the lasting effects of war. Weaving together their stories, Svetlana Alexievich shows us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan conflict: the killing and the beauty of small everyday moments, the shame of returned veterans, the worries of all those left behind. When it was first published in the USSR in 1991, Boys in Zinc sparked huge controversy for its unflinching, harrowing insight into the realities of war.

Die Berichterstattung durch Medien ist Anknupfungspunkt zahlreicher Beitrage in Rechtsprechung und Literatur. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Kollision der Pressefreiheit mit dem Persoenlichkeitsrecht des durch die Berichterstattung Betroffenen. Die Betroffenheit in der eigenen Person kann aber auch schon fruher erfolgen: zum Zeitpunkt der journalistischen Recherche. Diese Tatigkeit des Journalisten ist bisher kaum Gegenstand der wissenschaftlichen Eroerterung gewesen. Diese Untersuchung soll daher zeigen, welche Grenzen der Freiheit der Recherche gesetzt sind. Um die effektive Reichweite von Rechten zu ermitteln, wird zunachst ihr Inhalt definiert. Was Gegenstand der Recherchefreiheit ist, wird in dem ersten Teil der Arbeit dargelegt. Danach wird aufgezeigt, welchen allgemeinen Grenzen die Recherchefreiheit im Verfassungsrecht und Presserecht unterliegt. Sodann werden die Schranken fur die journalistische Recherche im Strafgesetzbuch untersucht. Schliesslich werden die Begrenzungen dargestellt, die das Strafverfahrensrecht fur die journalistische Recherche enthalt.

This timely collection, compiled and edited by veteran journalist and political commentator Max du Preez, contains critical reflections on various aspects of contemporary South Africa. Each contributor is a significant voice in their area of commentary and is well positioned to explore the complexities of the topic under analysis. The resulting pieces offer insights that will engage all readers interested in understanding and addressing the challenges of an unevenly changing nation. Topics in the collection include: The state of the nation; Personal and social identities - race, ethnicity and class; Environment - climate change and sustainability; Governance - skills, capacity and service delivery; The judicial system; Crime and violence; Education; Race relations and Health care.

The study sets out (a) to give an in-depth account of the discursive implications of the complex terms 'Judaism', 'modern' and feuilleton (arts pages) against the background of present-day theories of modernity, alterity and the history of aesthetics, and (b) to demonstrate the interdependency of discourses on politics and literary aesthetics with reference to concrete texts. The analysis of selected Viennese feuilletons (the corpus comprises texts by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, Ferdinand KA1/4rnberger, Sigmund Schlesinger, Friedrich SchlAgl, Karl Landsteiner, Betty Paoli, Daniel Spitzer, Ludwig Speidel and Theodor Herzl) concentrates on the strategies of literarization employed by bourgeois-liberal journalism in its persistently conservative phase to bolster the concepts of identity informing it.

Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the post-9/11 political chaos and the fi asco of the Arab Spring, coupled with the destabilization of Syria and Iraq and the rise of ISIS, controls it. The ever-increasing political volatility has offered them new business opportunities, from trafficking millions of refugees to selling Western hostages to jihadist groups. The kidnapping industry in the Middle East is now worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Loretta Napoleoni's exclusive and meticulous research into the business of kidnap and ransom, and its link to terrorist activity, is based on first-hand accounts - from interviews with hostage negotiators to the experiences of former hostages themselves. Merchants of Men is a fascinating and eye-opening exploration of this most shocking of financial interdependencies.

This is the first time these essays have been collected and identified as De Quincey's. Each essay or article is reprinted with full annotation and the author's reasons for attributing it to De Quincey. The essays vary in length and in subject matter: some are addressed to "The Editor"; some are critical reviews of contemporary magazines; some are week-to-week political commentaries on issues facing the second Tory party. Together they show De Quincey, the journalist, working on a variety of subjects that occur in his writing before and after this time, from the financing of empires to an attack on Macaulay or an analysis of Burke's mind and style. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

This is the first time these essays have been collected and identified as De Quincey's. Each essay or article is reprinted with full annotation and the author's reasons for attributing it to De Quincey. The essays vary in length and in subject matter: some are addressed to "The Editor"; some are critical reviews of contemporary magazines; some are week-to-week political commentaries on issues facing the second Tory party. Together they show De Quincey, the journalist, working on a variety of subjects that occur in his writing before and after this time, from the financing of empires to an attack on Macaulay or an analysis of Burke's mind and style. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been at the forefront of developments in theatre, opera, comedy, philosophy and scientific debate. This new collection brings together the very best of his acerbic writing. In keeping with Miller's grasshopper mind, One Thing and Another leaps from discussions of human behaviour, atheism, satire, cinema and television, to analysis of the work of M. R. James, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Truman Capote, by way of reflections on directing Shakespeare, Chekhov, Olivier and opera. A celebrated conversationalist, the book also features a selection of key interviews focusing on his working method. Jonathan Miller is internationally celebrated as one of the last great public intellectuals. Read One Thing and Another to find out why.