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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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.

'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times 'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told' Fiona Wilson, The Times 'An important book ... I cried all the way through' Tracy Chevalier From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience. 'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise. I hardly want to. You won't understand because you weren't there. You can't understand. You see, I thought I'd heard seagulls screeching. Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch. Birds. Just birds.' Emma-Jane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today. In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission.

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.

An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing, showing his genius across a wide variety of genres. Selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing: a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of the age. But his work is also timeless, as pieces on immigration, Scottish independence and a Royal Commission on the Press attest. Seeing Things As They Are, compiled by renowned Orwell scholar Peter Davison, brings together in one volume many of Orwell's articles and essays for journals and newspapers, his broadcasts for the BBC, and his book, theatre and film reviews. Little escaped Orwell's attention: he writes about the Spanish Civil War, public schools and poltergeists, and reviews books from Brave New World to Mein Kampf. Almost half of his popular 'As I Please' weekly columns, written while literary editor of the Tribune during the 1940s, are collected here, ranging over topics as diverse as the purchase of rose bushes from Woolworth's to the Warsaw Uprising. Whether political, poetic, polemic or personal, this is surprising, witty and intelligent writing to delight in. A mix of well-known and intriguing, less familiar pieces, this engaging collection illuminates our understanding of Orwell's work as a whole.

JEREMY CLARKSON'S LATEST - AND MOST OUTRAGEOUS - TAKE ON THE WORLD CLARKSON'S BACK - AND THIS TIME HE'S PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWN From his first job as a travelling sales rep selling Paddington Bears to his latest wheeze as a gentleman farmer, Jeremy Clarkson's love of cars has just about kept him out of trouble. But in a persistently infuriating world, sometimes you have to race full-throttle at the speed-bumps. Because there's still plenty to get cross about, including: * Why nothing good ever came out of a meeting * Muesli's unmentionable side effects * Navigating London when every single road is being dug up at once * People who read online reviews of dishwashers * ****ing driverless cars Buckle up for a bumpy ride - you're holding the only book in history to require seatbelts . . . Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: Brilliant . . . Laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph 'Outrageously funny . . . Will have you in stitches' Time Out 'Very funny . . . I cracked up laughing on the tube' Evening Standard

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

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.

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.