Der Band analysiert drei fuhrende arabischsprachige Tageszeitungen, die im April 2001 und 2002 erschienen sind. Der Autor zieht Ruckschlusse auf die Auswirkungen des 11. September 2001 auf die Berichterstattung und zeigt, dass das Image der UNO eher negativ ist und sie uberwiegend als Machtinstrument der US-amerikanischen Aussenpolitik betrachtet wird."

Die Theorie der Schlusselereignisse ist ein Forschungsgebiet der Medienwissenschaft, das sich mit der Karriere von Themen in der Medienberichterstattung befasst. Elisabeth Rauchenzauner untersucht die kurz- und langfristigen Auswirkungen von Schlusselereignissen auf die journalistische Berichterstattung, die Bedeutung von Nachrichtenfaktoren fur Schlusselereignisse, die Bedeutung von Schlusselbildern, -begriffen und -figuren sowie die Rolle von Journalisten als Gatekeeper in diesem Kontext."

Die empirische Studie untersucht den Einfluss der Medienberichterstattung auf Privatleben und sportliche Leistung von Athleten und deren Moglichkeiten, selbst Medieninhalte zu beeinflussen. Sie entwirft ein differenziertes Bild dieser reziproken Wirkungen, die sich von denen in anderen Bereichen, z.B. der Politik unterscheiden."

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016 In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee, and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today - an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories. This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed.

Im Internet verliert der Journalismus sein Monopol als "Gatekeeper", weil dort jeder ohne grossen Aufwand publizieren kann. Vermittlung zwischen Kommunikatoren und Rezipienten bleibt aber weiterhin notwendig. Wer aber kanalisiert die "Informationsflut" im Internet? Wer sortiert den "Informationsmull" aus? Sind es nach wie vor die professionellen Journalisten? Oder ubernehmen die Internetnutzer selbst die Aufgabe der Selektion und Prufung von Informationen? Koennen diese Prozesse technisiert werden? In dem Forschungsprojekt, das der Band vorstellt, wurde erstmals die Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen Profession, Partizipation und Technik untersucht.

Marianne Thamm delves into her own unconventional life story.

Her German father fought for Hitler and made munitions for Verwoerd. He married her largely illiterate Portuguese mother who worked as a cleaner in England. Today Marianne is the proud mother of two (black) teenagers... Hers is the story of the last century, of the defeat of bigotry and a new era ushered in by Mandela.

Sad at times, deeply moving and, like Marianne, hugely entertaining.

Der Band setzt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Erwartungshaltungen an Autoren und Regisseure historischer Dokumentation auseinander und entwickelt daraus einen Leitfaden fur die Praxis. Welche dramaturgischen Grundmuster bieten sich fur historische Dokumentationen an? Was ist ein angemessener Umgang mit Zeitzeugen im Spannungsfeld von subjektiver Wahrnehmung und historischer Wahrheit? Welche wissenschaftlichen Kriterien sind eher hinderlich, welche historischen Forschungsansatze koennen dagegen hilfreich sein? Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele erlautert der Autor, wie es gelingt, den unterschiedlichen Erwartungshaltungen zu entsprechen und dennoch den eigenen Gestaltungswillen nicht aus den Augen zu verlieren.

Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world's dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen's biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in American--and eventually international--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causes that Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorful features to a service previously known for stodgy reliability, pushing through disruptive technological innovations like the instantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade to bring American-style press freedom--inseparable from private ownership, in Cooper's view--to every country. His insistence on truthfulness and impartiality presents a sharp contrast to much of today's fractured journalistic landscape. Deeply researched and engagingly written, Mr. Associated Press traces Cooper's career as he built a new foundation for the modern AP and shaped the twentieth-century world of news.

Wahlen werden in Deutschland mittlerweile massgeblich von Personen entschieden, die sich erst kurz vor der Wahl auf eine Partei festlegen. Wer aber sind diese Spatentscheider und wie treffen sie ihre Wahl? Sind ihre Entscheidungen irrational und impulsiv oder im Gegenteil besonders gewissenhaft und daher verzoegert? Welche Informationen ziehen sie heran und sind sie besonders anfallig fur Medieneinflusse? Um diese und weitere Fragen zu beantworten, haben die Autoren im Bundestagswahlkampf 2009 eine Mehr-Methoden-Studie durchgefuhrt. Darin verknupfen sie eine reprasentative Panel-Befragung mit einer Inhaltsanalyse der Wahlkampfberichterstattung sowie einer Realtime-Response-Studie zum TV-Duell.

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuscinski gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience. The first posthumous monograph on the writer's life and work, Ryszard Kapuscinski confronts the mixed reception of Kapuscinski's tendency to merge the conventions of reportage with the artistry of literature. Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziatek discuss the writer's accounts of the decolonization of Africa and his work in Asia and South America between 1956 and 1981, a period during which Kapuscinski reported on twenty-seven revolutions and coups. They argue that the journalistic tradition is not in conflict with Kapuscinski's meditations on the deep meanings of these events, and that his first-person involvement in his text was not an indulgence detracting from his journalistic adventures but a well-thought-out conception of eyewitness testimony, developing the moral and philosophical message of the stories. Exploring the whole of Kapuscinski's achievements, Nowacka and Ziatek identify a constant tension between a strictly journalistic position and what in Poland is called literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose. Kapuscinski's desire and dedication to make more of journalistic writing is the driving force behind the excellence and readability that have made his legendary books so controversial - and so widely celebrated.

Journalismus und Journalismusforschung: Meistens stehen beide Bereiche unverbunden nebeneinander. Hier setzt das Autorenteam dieses Bandes an: Es greift zentrale Fragen und Probleme der journalistischen Praxis auf, die mit Beispielen illustriert werden, und analysiert sie mit Hilfe von Theorien und empirischen Ergebnissen der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Was ist Qualitat im Journalismus, wie lasst sie sich messen und sicherstellen? Welche Erwartungen hat das Publikum, und uber welche Kanale haben die Redaktionen Zugang zu ihrem Publikum? Ausserdem geht der Band auf die drangenden Zukunftsfragen des Journalismus ein

This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Since his tragic death while covering the massive Chicano antiwar moratorium in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970, Ruben Salazar has become a legend in the Chicano community. As a reporter and later as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Salazar was the first journalist of Mexican American background to cross over into the mainstream English-language press. He wrote extensively on the Mexican American community and served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Vietnam. This first major collection of Salazar's writing is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the United States. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Border Correspondent presents selections from each period of Salazar's career. The stories and columns document a growing frustration with the Kennedy administration, a young Cesar Chavez beginning to organize farm workers, the Vietnam War, and conflict between police and community in East Los Angeles. One of the first to take investigative journalism into the streets and jails, Salazar's first-hand accounts of his experiences with drug users and police, ordinary people and criminals, make compelling reading. Mario Garcia's introduction provides a biographical sketch of Salazar and situates him in the context of American journalism and Chicano history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

The model for this volume is the enormously successful Vintage Original DISTANT VOICES (93,000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma,Fleet Street, East Timor,Vietnam today,the media and UK politics. 'Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s...The Truth in his hands is a weapon,to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice' GUARDIAN

A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. The Act has provided cover for the settling of political scores, illegal break-ins, and prosecutorial misconduct.