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The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images
that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on
location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage
illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactively creating
narrative work about issues and subjects, translating what they
witness into handmade imagery. There is evidence that illustrations
connect to people in powerful ways whether they are drawings
created while embedded with troops in Afghanistan, documenting
during a courtroom trial or recreating the energy of the crowd at a
rock concert. This area of applied illustration also provides
career opportunities for students and takes them out of the
classroom and into different environments and situations. With
practical information about tools, techniques and coping in various
situations as well as inspirational interviews and advice from
reportage artists working in the field, this book will fill a gap
in this growing market.
What basic ethical principles should guide American journalists
to help them justify their invasion of an individual's privacy, to
be objective in their reporting, to avoid being influenced by
government or economic controls? A wire service and newsroom
veteran and a sociologist and scholar in mass media/communications
have designed a philosophical guide for students, scholars, and
practitioners to use as a kind of moral compass. Key excerpts from
some of the most important writings on the subject from Milton to
Louis Brandeis, from Plato to Sissela Bok, and from Adam Smith to
John Merrill deal with some of the most serious contemporary issues
in journalism today. This short text also includes the Society of
Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics and a full index.
Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left
behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper
columns on Canadian politics and public policy.
To both celebrate his career and continue his passionate efforts
to encourage and support the practice of journalism, St. Thomas
University has held the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism
since 2002. In cooperation with CBC Radio's "Ideas," the series has
become an annual highlight for listeners across the country.
Now, for the first time, the Dalton Camp Lectures have been
gathered together in one remarkable compilation. Commencing with
the foundational address "The Best Game in Town" by journalist and
social activist June Callwood, about her love affair with
journalism, and ending with the 2013 lecture "The Next Big Thing
Has Finally Arrived" by "New York Times" business, media, and
culture writer David Carr, the contributors collectively forecast
the future of news and the public discussion of ideas in a vastly
changing world.
Featuring contributions by Callwood and Carr as well as Nahlah
Ayed, Sue Gardner, Chantal H#&233;bert, Naomi Klein, Roy
MacGregor, Stephanie Nolen, Neil Reynolds, Joe Schlesinger, and Ken
Whyte, "The Next Big Thing" addresses the contemporary practice of
journalism like no other book.
The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference
work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of
journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial
to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way
journals are produced, financed, and used make this an especially
turbulent and challenging time for journal publishers - and for
authors, readers, and librarians. The Handbook offers a thorough
guide to the journal publishing process, from editing and
production through marketing, sales, and fulfilment, with chapters
on management, finances, metrics, copyright, and ethical issues. It
provides a wealth of practical tools, including checklists, sample
documents, worked examples, alternative scenarios, and extensive
lists of resources, which readers can use in their day-to-day work.
Between them, the authors have been involved in every aspect of
journal publishing over several decades and bring to the text their
experience working for a wide range of publishers in both the
not-for-profit and commercial sectors.
Essential English is a brisk and pungent guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organizations. What makes a good English sentence? How should you rewrite a bad one?What cliches and other word-traps are to be avoided? How do you shorten unnecessarily verbose source-material? How is the essence of what you have to say be conveyed, and placed in proper relation to any background information? These are questions for all. Using a wealth of examples, all drawn from newspapers in Britain and the United States, ESSENTIAL ENGLISH is an indispensable guide for all who have to convey information by the written or printed word.
"All the cutting edge technology I learned in college-typewriters,
film splicers, glue-is now in a museum; the one thing that hasn't
changed is how to tell a visual story."-Bob Dotson Make It
Memorable provides a distinctly different, hands-on introduction to
the craft of visual storytelling. Many texts have been written to
help people master the changing technology of journalism; here, Bob
Dotson teaches readers how best to tell a story once they do. This
second edition of Dotson's classic book offers dozens of new tips
for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find
and create all kinds of visual stories under tight deadlines. In
addition to new scripts annotated with behind-the-scenes insights
and structural comments, the book includes links to online videos
of all the story examples. There is no other text quite like it.
Additional videos that can be utilized for class assignments and
exercises are available on www.nbclearn.com/makeitmemorable.
What we don't know can hurt us-and does so every day. Climate
change, health care policy, weapons of mass destruction, an aging
infrastructure, stem cell research, endangered species, space
exploration-all affect our lives as citizens and human beings in
practical and profound ways. But unless we understand the science
behind these issues, we cannot make reasonable decisions-and worse,
we are susceptible to propaganda cloaked in scientific rhetoric. To
convey the facts, this book suggests, scientists must take a more
active role in making their work accessible to the media, and thus
to the public. In Am I Making Myself Clear? Cornelia Dean, a
distinguished science editor and reporter, urges scientists to
overcome their institutional reticence and let their voices be
heard beyond the forum of scholarly publication. By offering useful
hints for improving their interactions with policymakers, the
public, and her fellow journalists, Dean aims to change the
attitude of scientists who scorn the mass media as an arena where
important work is too often misrepresented or hyped. Even more
important, she seeks to convince them of the value and urgency of
communicating to the public. Am I Making Myself Clear? shows
scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and
describe their work to a lay audience on paper, online, and over
the airwaves. It is a book that will improve the tone and content
of debate over critical issues and will serve the interests of
science and society.
In a time of uncertainty and change in the newspaper industry, this
book provides a concise and thorough overview of the field, looking
back at newspapers' history, and forward to their future - and
insisting there will be one. The authors, former journalists who
now teach the subject, review the practices of the profession -
from defining news to examining who owns newspapers, from newspaper
readership to the new media environment. Written in an accessible
style, this comprehensive text is well suited for a range of
courses on newspapers.
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