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Today, a variety of gender-based threats and discrimination
continue to characterize journalism. Both male and female
journalists are prone to online and offline threats, casual
stereotypes in their routine work, and discrimination (especially
in terms of job opportunities, promotion, and pay-scale). Working
in a safe and non-discriminatory environment is the right of all
journalists, regardless of their gender. The Handbook of Research
on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
is a critical reference book that highlights equal rights in
journalism to ensure the safety of women and men. The book
investigates the level and nature of threats, both online and
offline, faced by journalists as well as gender discrimination in
journalism. Best practices and examples that can promote a safe
working environment and gender equality in journalism are also
presented. Highlighting important themes such as online harassment,
sexism, and gender-based violence, this book is ideal for
journalists, reporters, media organizations, professionals,
researchers, academicians, and students working or studying in the
fields of journalism, media and communications, human rights, and
women's studies.
Legendary Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated record producer George Martin shares tales from his life and musical career with the Fab Four.
George Martin spotted the Beatles' talent, and recorded and produced The Fab Four from the start right through to The Beatles Anthology. Often called “the fifth Beatle,” Martin not only produced but also arranged some of the band’s most iconic and distinctive songs, including “Yesterday.” In this witty and charming autobiography, Martin describes exactly what it was like to work in the studio with the Beatles―from their first audition (and his decision to scrap Pete Best on drums) to the wild experimentation of Sgt. Pepper, complete with sound effects, animal noises, and full orchestras in evening dress at the direct request of Paul McCartney.
All You Need Is Ears is an intimate insider’s look at the most important pop group of all time, and how they made the music that changed the world: it’s an inimitable look at the Beatles’ creative process, and at the interplay of genius and practical improvisation that gave them their sound. It’s an indispensable read for Beatle lovers and anyone interested in how the world of popular music really works.
In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the
Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself
guiding the newspaper through a turbulent period in the history of
American civil rights. Bogalusa, Louisiana, became a flashpoint for
clashes between African Americans advocating for equal treatment
and white residents who resisted this change, a conflict that
generated an upsurge in activity by the Ku Klux Klan. Local members
of the KKK stepped up acts of terror and intimidation directed
against residents and institutions they perceived as sympathetic to
civil rights efforts. During this turmoil, the Daily News took a
public stand against the Klan and its platform of hatred and white
supremacy. Against the Klan, Major's memoir of those years,
recounts his attempts to balance the good of the community, the
health of the newspaper, and the safety of his family. He provides
an in-depth look at the stance the Daily News took in response to
the city's civil rights struggles, including the many fiery
editorials he penned condemning the KKK's actions and urging
peaceful relations in Bogalusa. Major's richly detailed personal
account offers a ground-level view of the challenges local
journalists faced when covering civil rights campaigns in the Deep
South and of the role played by the press in exposing the nefarious
activities of hate groups such as the Klan.
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Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult
of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over
political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and
television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to
"ordinary" human beings of all classes and colours, as they talked
about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder's
Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the
first comprehensive book about this man. Drawing from over fifty
interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder
creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from
Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and
raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch.
We see Studs, the eminent oral historian, the inveterate and
selfless supporter of radical causes, especially civil rights. We
see the actor, the writer, the radio host, the jazz lover, whose
early work in television earned him a notorious place on the
McCarthy blacklist. We also see Studs the family man and devoted
husband to his adored wife, Ida. Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture,
But Mostly Conversation allows us to realize the importance of
reaching through our own daily realities - increasingly clogged
with disembodied, impersonal interaction - to find value in actual
face-time with real humans. Wieder's book also shows us why such
contact might be crucial to those of us in movements rising up
against global tyranny and injustice. The book is simply the best
introduction available to this remarkable man. Reading it will lead
people to Terkel's enormous body of work, with benefits they will
cherish thr
University literary journals allow students to create their own
venue for learning, have a hands-on part of their development in
real-world skills, and strive towards professional achievement. But
producing an undergraduate literary magazine requires commitment,
funding, and knowledge of the industry. This practical guide
assists students and faculty in choosing a workable structure for
setting up, and then successfully running, their own literary
publication. Whether the journal is print or online, in-house or
international, Creating an Undergraduate Literary Journal is a
step-by-step handbook, walking the reader through the process of
literary journal production. Chapters focus on: defining the
journal; the financial logistics; editing the journal;
distribution; and what could come next for a student writer-editor
after graduation. The first book of its kind to offer instruction
directly to those running university-based literary magazines, this
book includes insights from former editors, advisers, students and
features an extensive list of active student-run literary magazines
key literary organizations for writers/editors who serve literary
publications. From Audrey Colombe, faculty adviser on the
award-winning Glass Mountain magazine from the University of
Houston, this is a text for both newcomers and those more informed
on the production process to help them navigate through a
successful publishing experience.
Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection
remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic
legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert’s star
persona and public profile through critical and theoretical
analysis of her various screen roles—from her very early
appearances alongside Romy Schneider in César et Rosalie (Sautet,
1972) and Gérard Depardieu in Les Valseuses (1974) to a number of
celebrated collaborations with high-profile European auteurs such
as Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael
Haneke and Joseph Losey, and with more popular auteurs such as
Claude Chabrol and François Ozon. Known for a cerebral
internalization of characterization, a technical mastery of extreme
emotions, and a singular brand of icy intellectualism, Huppert’s
performances continue to impress, stun and surprise audiences. By
focusing on several theoretical questions that relate to image,
identity, sexuality and place, this volume situates Huppert’s
star persona in the more practical creative contexts of
performance, authorship, genre and collaboration. This volume
contrasts complementary critical accounts of her stardom by working
across the different periods and territories of her career.
*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial
Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award
for Investigative Journalism 2022* 'I want to live in a society
where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion
for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail,
not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.' It
is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a
growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the
little-known organisation WikiLeaks. Through hushed meetings,
encrypted files and explosive documents, what she discovers sets
her on a life-long journey that takes her deep into the realm of
secret power. Working closely with WikiLeaks' founder Julian
Assange and his organisation for her newspaper, Maurizi has spent
over a decade investigating state criminality protected by thick
layers of secrecy, while also embarking on a solitary trench
warfare to unearth the facts underpinning the cruel persecution of
Assange and WikiLeaks. With complex and disturbing insights,
Maurizi's tireless journalism exposes atrocities, the shameful
treatment of Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, on up to the
present persecution of WikiLeaks: a terrifying web of impunity and
cover-ups. At the heart of the book is the brutality of secret
power and the unbearable price paid by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
and truthtellers.
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