In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Tracing the process by which Mexico City reporters denounced official wrongdoing, she shows that by the 1980s political scandals were a common feature of the national media diet. News stories of state embezzlement, torture, police violence, and electoral fraud provided collective opportunities to voice dissent and offered an important, though unpredictable and inequitable, mechanism for political representation. The publicity of wrongdoing also disrupted top-down attempts by the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional to manage public discourse, exposing divisions within the party and forcing government officials to grapple with popular discontent. While critical reporters denounced corruption, they also withheld many secrets from public discussion, sometimes out of concern for their safety. Freije highlights the tensions-between free speech and censorship, representation and exclusion, and transparency and secrecy-that defined the Mexican public sphere in the late twentieth century.

Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as celebrating Black Britain's success stories. From hard hitting news reports covering the murder of Stephen Lawrence to championing the likes of Sir Lewis Hamilton and Idris Elba, the newspaper has campaigned, celebrated and educated people for the last forty years. As well as celebrating amazing successes in sport, politics and the arts, The Voice documented everyday life in the community, from the emergence of a Black middle class in the '90s and the achievements of Black entrepreneurs to how different facets of the community were explored in contemporary music and literature. Since its small beginnings in Hackney, The Voice has also become a fantastic training ground for prominent journalists and figures including former politician Trevor Phillips, broadcaster Rageh Omaar and writer Afua Hirsch. Today, The Voice is Britain's longest running and only Black newspaper. Told through news reports, editorials and readers' personal letters, this emotive book documents the social history of Black Britain over the last four decades. Each chapter is illustrated with amazing newspaper pages from The Voice's extensive archives as well as iconic and dramatic front covers from 1982 to the present day. With a foreword from Sir Lenny Henry and written by former and current Voice journalists, this powerful book is a celebration of the ground-breaking paper which gave a voice to the voiceless.

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighborhoods, and tells the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of one of the world's great cities. The Lion and the Nightingale tells the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genc takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.

From Dan Jenkins--one of America's most respected and acclaimed sportswriters and author of the bestselling novels "Semi-Tough" and "Dead Solid Perfect"--comes a colorful, sentimental, hilarious, and cantankerous memoir about his lifelong journey through the world of sports.

"Sometimes, I envy my own childhood," says Dan Jenkins. Many can say that about Dan's whole life. In "His Ownself," we follow him from his youth in Texas, where being a sports fan meant understanding a lot about religion, heroes, and drinking; to his first job at the "Fort Worth Press" working alongside all-time journalistic greats like Blackie Sherrod and Bud Shrake; to the glory days of "Sports Illustrated." One of a handful of writers to establish "SI" as the most important sports magazine ever, Dan refocused the magazine's college football coverage and covered the game's greatest players and coaches. Beyond football, Dan is in the conversation about the best golf writers of all time. Having covered every Masters, U.S. Open, PGA, and British Open for the past fifty years, he takes us behind the scenes to capture the drama--as well as the humor--of these tournaments as he brings us up close and personal with the likes of Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
From his friendship and the rounds played with Ben Hogan, to the stories swapped with New York's elite, to the corporate expense accounts abused, Dan lets loose on his experiences in journalism, sports, and showbiz. An honest, one-of-a-kind look at politics, hypocrites, political correctness, the past, the present, Hollywood, money, and athletes, this is a sports fan's dream book. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of sportswriting and the glory days of sports, told straight from the mouth of the man who saw it all his ownself.

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Take a trip down memory lane with the memoir from national TV treasure John Craven, as he recounts both the highs and lows of one of the longest entertaining careers in history, and the people and animals that have helped to shape it. 'Magical memoirs. A BBC legend. A broadcasting icon. The best bits from cub reporter to Countryfile' Daily Mail He began by reading the front page of the evening newspaper in the kitchen to his mother and aunt. Since then, he's spoken to the nation on the BBC almost every week for more than half a century and is one of the most-beloved broadcasters of our time. Presenter of treasured programmes Newsround, Countryfile and Swap Shop, John brought us the headlines and breaking news of our childhood and later helped us discover the magic and wonder of the British countryside. Now, in his first ever autobiography, he recounts a life in news, his childhood, the great impact that the absence of his father - held prisoner for three and a half years while fighting for his country - had on him. He writes too about the people, the major events - and, of course, the animals - that have shaped his life. This is John Craven. And this is the story behind the man so many of us grew up watching on our television screens. 'A cracking read' Chris Evans

Monograph commemorating German photojournalist Werner Bischof (1916-1954), who reported on devastation in Germany, France and the Netherlands after World War II. Featuring over 100 black-and-white photographs, this collection of Bischof's images conveys his sense of empathy and humanity. Text in English, Italian and French.

"A landmark in the field of writing about journalism." The Nation
The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.

Das Lehrbuch verortet PR als Lehr- und Forschungsbereich aus einer primar kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Ziel ist es, Leserinnen und Leser mit den zentralen Grundbegriffen, Theorien und Modellen der PR sowie dem aktuellen Stand der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion vertraut zu machen. Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen disziplinaren Perspektiven, theoretischen Ansatzen und Modellen werden einzelne Tatigkeitsfelder, Arbeitsbereiche und Instrumente sowie die Konzeption strategischer PR naher beleuchtet. In dem Band werden PR-relevantes Wissen zusammengefuhrt sowie zentrale Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte der PR-Forschung geklart. Anhand kompakter Leseabschnitte, ausgewahlter Leseproben einschlagiger Standardwerke sowie von Fallbeispielen aus der Praxis soll Studierenden der Einstieg in die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit PR erleichtert werden. Daruber hinaus richtet sich der Band an alle, die sich mit den Auspragungen von PR in der modernen Gesellschaft sowie deren wissenschaftlicher Bearbeitung auseinandersetzen.

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. In MORANTHOLOGY Caitlin 'gets quite chatty' about many subjects, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag. These other subjects include... Caffeine | Ghostbusters | Being Poor | Twitter | Caravans | Obama | Wales | Paul McCartney | The Welfare State | Sherlock | David Cameron Looking Like Ham | Amy Winehouse | 'The Big Society' | Big Hair | Nutter-letters | Michael Jackson's funeral | Failed Nicknames | Wolverhampton | Squirrels' Testicles | Sexy Tax | Binge-drinking | Chivalry | Rihanna's Cardigan | Party Bags | Hot People| Transsexuals | The Gay Moon Landings

Hamsun’s portrait of a man rejecting the claims of bourgeois society for a Rousseauian embrace of Nature and Eros, in a remarkable new translation.

Wer berat die Regierung in kommunikativen Fragen und mit welcher Wirkung? Nicola Seitz geht Veranderungen in der staatlichen Kommunikation nach und untersucht im Zeitraum von 1998 bis 2009 den Einfluss von Werbe- und PR-Agenturen auf den politischen Regierungsapparat und den kommunikativen Vermittlungsprozess. Anhand einer dokumentenbasierten Netzwerkanalyse identifiziert sie zentrale Akteure der Branche, die in Interviews umfassende Einblicke in ihre kommunikative Arbeit fur Bundesministerien und ihre Beziehung zum Journalismus geben. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass Kommunikationsdienstleister wenig Einfluss auf die Politik oder die (uberregionale) politische Berichterstattung haben und nur in Ausnahmefallen in die Tagespolitik involviert sind. Stattdessen ersinnen sie Visualisierungen, Bildmotive und verantworten die breite (regionale) Kommunikation von mittel- bis langfristigen politischen Themen.

Lars Guenther analysiert die Grunde fur die jeweilige Berichterstattung uber wissenschaftliche Evidenz von Wissenschaftsjournalisten vor dem Hintergrund des Spannungsverhaltnisses Wissenschaft - Journalismus - OEffentlichkeit. Die Ergebnisse der eigenen Studien, die Erkenntnisse aus Inhaltsanalysen und Befragungen zusammenfassen, verweisen auf die dominante Rolle des Publikums: So machen Journalisten ihre Entscheidung, wie wissenschaftliche Evidenz dargestellt wird, vorrangig davon abhangig, wie stark sie glauben, dass ihre Leser und Zuhoerer erwarten, dass Forschungsergebnisse eher gesichert oder ungesichert prasentiert werden sollen.

Now a major BBC TV series. The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The People V. O.J. Simpson is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin explores the secret dealings and manoeuvring on both sides of the case, and how a combination of the prosecution's over-confidence, the defence's shrewdness, and the Los Angeles Police Department's incendiary history with the city's African-American community, gave a jury what it needed: reasonable doubt. Rich in character, as propulsive as a legal thriller, this enduring narrative continues to shock and fascinate with its candid depiction of the human drama that upended the world. The People V. O.J. Simpson tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of the trial of the century.

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers remained expensive and often required the cooperation of foreign governments and the American armed forces. Initially, reporters from a neutral America documented the early victories by Nazi Germany and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Not all journalists strived for objectivity. During her time reporting from Ireland, Helen Kirkpatrick remained a fierce critic of this country's neutrality. Once the United States joined the fight after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American journalists supported the struggle against the Axis powers, but this volume will show that reporters, even when members of the army sponsored, Stars and Stripes were not mere ciphers of the official line. African American reporters Roi Ottley and Ollie Stewart worked to bolster the morale of Black GIs and they undermine the institutional racism endemic to the American war effort. Women front-line reporters are given their due in this volume examining the struggles to overcome gender bias by examining triumphs of Therese Mabel Bonney, Lee Carson, Iris Carpenter, and Anne Stringer. The line between public relations and journalism could be a fine one as reflected by the U.S. Marine Corps creating its own network of Marine correspondents who reported on the Pacific island campaigns and had their work published by American media outlets. Despite the pressures of censorship, the best American reporters strove for accuracy in reporting the facts even when dependent on official communiques issued by the military. Many war-time reporters, even when covering major turning points, sought to embrace a reporting style that recorded the experiences of average soldiers. Often associated with Ernie Pyle and Bill Mauldin, the embrace of the human-interest story served as one of the enduring legacies of the conflict. Despite the importance of American war reporting in shaping perceptions of the war on the home front as well as shaping the historical narrative of this conflict, this work underscores how there is more to learn. Readers will gain from this work and new appreciation of the contribution of American journalists in writing the first version of history as the global struggle against Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.