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Media Analytics - Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century (Paperback): Ann Hollifield, Amy Jo Coffey Media Analytics - Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century (Paperback)
Ann Hollifield, Amy Jo Coffey
R1,811 Discovery Miles 18 110 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using data sets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. Media Analytics introduces the key principles of media economics and management. It outlines how to interpret and present results, the principles of data visualization and storytelling and the basics of research design and sampling. Although shifting technology makes measurement and analytics a dynamic space, this book takes an evergreen, conceptual approach, reminding students to focus on the principles and foundations that will remain constant. Aimed at upper-level students in the fast-growing area of media analytics in a cross-platform world, students using this text will learn how to find the stories in the data and to present those stories in an engaging way to others. Instructor and Student Resources include an Instructor's Manual, discussion questions, short exercises and links to additional resources. They are available online at www.routledge.com/cw/hollifield.

Aesthetic Journalism - How to Inform Without Informing (Paperback): Alfredo Cramerotti Aesthetic Journalism - How to Inform Without Informing (Paperback)
Alfredo Cramerotti
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as 'Aesthetic Journalism', challenges, with clear language, the definitions of both art and journalism, and addresses a new mode of information from the point of view of the reader and viewer. The book explores how the production of truth has shifted from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism. With examples and theories from within the contemporary art and journalistic-scape, the book questions the very foundations of journalism. Aesthethic Journalism suggests future developments of this new relationship between art and documentary journalism, offering itself as a useful tool to audiences, scholars, producers and critics alike.

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms - Field Testing the Future (Paperback): Dan Pacheco Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms - Field Testing the Future (Paperback)
Dan Pacheco
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms teaches students in media tracks - journalism, advertising, film and public relations - how to independently field-test and evaluate emerging technologies that could impact how media is produced, consumed and monetized in the future. Taking a unique trial-and-error approach, the author encourages students to go against their desire for perfection and instead plunge into exercises with the full expectation that they will "fail" many times before they succeed. Through focused assignments, this book provides pointers on how to familiarise yourself with current technology including extended reality (XR, VR, AR, and MR), open-source coding, photogrammetry, aerial imagery using drones, automation, and artificial intelligence. Readers are invited to create and test their own hypotheses and work outside of their comfort zones to reach conclusions on how a technology could enhance storytelling for a particular audience. Through experimentation guided by workbook exercises, case studies from students and media practitioners, practical tips and reminders about ethical decision-making, students will learn how to work like explorers and civic hackers to enact change in the media landscape. Readers are invited to share their final field test results online through the book's companion website and social media channels, where the author will post links to further reading, coding templates for simple projects, and short video tutorials. Built around an established course being taught by the author and informed by over 20 years' experience in media industries, Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms is essential reading for aspiring media professionals and students undertaking courses such as Emerging Media, Media Innovation and Media Startups. For additional resources, please see the companion website: https://www.emergingmediaplatforms.com/

CommunicAsian - How Asia's Rise Is Shaping the Future of Communications, and How to Plan for It (Paperback): Oliver... CommunicAsian - How Asia's Rise Is Shaping the Future of Communications, and How to Plan for It (Paperback)
Oliver Stelling
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The rise of Asia has changed the world, now shaped by greater global connectivity, geopolitics and shifting spheres of influence. Tapping into research and decades of experience in the world's fastest-moving markets, this book makes a compelling case for a new and future-ready approach to communications planning and implementation, which the Asian Century demands. Facing a new operating environment, policymakers and business leaders have to act quickly. This book outlines the necessary adjustments to long-established practices and value propositions in both corporate and government communications and provides a step-by-step plan for strategy development, laid out in a two-pronged approach designed to appeal to a multicultural audience. It is an essential read for global practitioners and students in international relations and mass communications.

The Broadcast News Toolkit - Inside the Digital Newsroom (Paperback): Kirsten Johnson, Jodi Radosh The Broadcast News Toolkit - Inside the Digital Newsroom (Paperback)
Kirsten Johnson, Jodi Radosh
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Broadcast News Toolkit focuses on the writing, shooting, and production of broadcast news across multimedia platforms in a non-technical and visually engaging way. Covering a range of different story forms in broadcast news (RDR, FS, VO, VO/SOT, PKG and Liveshots), this book illustrates basic audio/video shooting and editing techniques through straightforward examples, including online video tutorials that can be accessed via a QR code within the book. Specific issues relating to online content, social media, and audience engagement are discussed in detail, and the authors further explore why trust in news media is declining, the impact that fake news and deep fake videos have on media credibility, diversity and inclusion in newsrooms, and what can be done to increase the perceived credibility of the news. Students will also learn how to write leads and teases that will keep viewers engaged. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students of Broadcast and Multimedia Journalism who are looking for a clear and concise guide to the modern digital newsroom

Mapping the Magazine - Comparative studies in magazine journalism (Paperback): Tim Holmes Mapping the Magazine - Comparative studies in magazine journalism (Paperback)
Tim Holmes
R1,741 Discovery Miles 17 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The media and more recently journalism have provided rich areas of study for many years but magazines, perhaps the most prolific single medium, have been largely ignored. Mapping The Magazine aims to redress the balance with an unprecedented collection of original, scholarly, detailed but wide-ranging examinations of the magazine form. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches and a wealth of titles from around the world, the contributions demonstrate just how significant the magazine has been, and continues to be, in the realm of journalism and cultural production. From the science magazines of the Victorian era to women's magazines of South Africa and Israel, via rock music and photojournalism past and present, the material in Mapping The Magazine illuminates and explores the all-encompassing, global and historical nature of the subject matter. Some of the most notable names in the field of magazine studies, including John Hartley, Sammye Johnson, David Abrahamson, Bethan Benwell, and Patrick Roessler contribute research based analyses of various aspects of magazine journalism from around the globe and across a wide historical span. This book will help to establish the magazine as a medium which is not only suitable for research but which also opens up a huge new field of possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of Journalism Studies

Ranks and Columns - Armed Forces Newspapers in American Wars (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Alfred E Cornebise Ranks and Columns - Armed Forces Newspapers in American Wars (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Alfred E Cornebise
R2,803 R2,536 Discovery Miles 25 360 Save R267 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the Revolutionary War, American military men have published troop newspapers to provide amusement, to keep themselves informed, to aid in maintaining morale, and to encourage those engaged in boring or dangerous pursuits. Beginning as informal ventures, these papers received official sanction as high command began to realize their morale benefits and eventually became an accepted adjunct to the waging of war. Based on a close reading of many soldiers' newspapers, this volume is the first book to provide a historical survey of the U.S. military press from the Revolutionary War to the present. Drawing on the rich detail in the troop newspapers, the book also provides a social record of the attitudes, aspirations, and life of those engaged in war, and considers the increasingly controversial issue of freedom of the press in war time.

Taking a chronological approach, the study opens with a consideration of the Revolutionary War and turns to a consideration of the Mexican War of 1846-1848 in chapter 2. The Civil War papers are covered in chapter 3. Chapter 4 discusses the period from 1865 to 1917, when the military press matured. The next two chapters cover the ground forces papers and the air service papers of World War I. Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to World War II, and the final chapter covers the period since World War II. This volume should become a standard in journalism history.

Broadcast Journalism - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover): Jane Chapman, Marie Kinsey Broadcast Journalism - A Critical Introduction (Hardcover)
Jane Chapman, Marie Kinsey
R4,505 Discovery Miles 45 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Broadcast Journalism offers a critical analysis of the key skills required to work in the modern studio, on location, or online, with chapters written by industry professionals from the BBC, ITV, CNN and independent production companies in the UK and USA. Areas highlighted include: interviewing researching editing writing reporting. The practical tips are balanced with chapters on representation, ethics, law, economics and history, as well as specialist areas such as documentary and the reporting of politics, business, sport and celebrity. Broadcast Journalism concludes with a vital chapter on career planning to act as a springboard for your future work in the broadcast industry. Contributors: Jim Beaman; Jane Chapman; Fiona Chesterton; Tim Crook; Anne Dawson; Tony Harcup; Jackie Harrison; Ansgard Heinrich; Emma Hemmingway; Patricia Holland; David Holmes; Gary Hudson; Nicholas Jones; Marie Kinsey; Roger Laughton; Leslie Mitchell; Jeremy Orlebar; Claire Simmons; Katie Stewart; Ingrid Volkmer; Mike Ward; Deborah Wilson.

Making the News - Journalism and News Cultures in Europe (Hardcover): Paschal Preston Making the News - Journalism and News Cultures in Europe (Hardcover)
Paschal Preston
R4,494 Discovery Miles 44 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Making the News provides a cross-national perspective on key features of journalism and news-making cultures and the changing media landscape in contemporary Europe. .Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change as well as the broader industrial, organizational, institutional and cultural factors shaping journalism practices over the past two decades. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on journalism trends and newsmaking practices within a single country, Making the News draws on unique, cross-national research examining current journalism practices and related newsmaking cultures in eleven West, Central and East European countries, including in-depth interviews with almost 100 senior journalists and subsequent workshop discussions with other interest groups Making the News links reviews and discussions of the existing literature to original research engaging with the views and experiences of journalists working at the 'coal face' of contemporary newsmaking practices, to provide an original study and useful student text.

Taking Liberties - Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readers (Hardcover): Amy B Aronson Taking Liberties - Early American Women's Magazines and Their Readers (Hardcover)
Amy B Aronson
R2,218 R2,049 Discovery Miles 20 490 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike its British forebears, the early American magazine, or periodical miscellany, functioned in culture as a forum driven by manifold contributions and perpetuated by reader response. Arising in colonial Philadelphia, America's more democratic magazine sustained a range of conflicting ideas, norms, and beliefs--indeed, it promoted their very exchange. It invited and embraced competing voices, particularly during the first 75 years of the Republic. In this first-ever account of the early American magazine as a distinct form, Amy Beth Aronson reveals how such participatory dynamics and public visibility offered special advantages to women, especially to those with sufficient education, access, and financial means, for whom ladies magazines offered unusual opportunities for self-expression, collective discussion, and cultural response.

Moreover, the genre opened and sustained dialogue among contributors, whose competing voices played off each other, provoking rebuttal and revision by subsequent contributors and noncontributing readers. This free play of discourse positioned women's words in a uniquely productive way, offering a kind of community of women readers who, together, wrote and revised magazine content and collectively negotiated and authorized new language for a new public's use.

Newszak and News Media (Hardcover): Bob Franklin Newszak and News Media (Hardcover)
Bob Franklin
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an examination of how developments in the organization, financial structures and regulation of news media, combined with changes in journalism's composition and news-gathering practices, have resulted in shifting editorial standards in newspapers, radio and television. The book looks at developments in the profession of journalism including the growth in freelance work, the precarious position of editors, and the absent voices of women and black journalists. At the same time, it provides a consideration of the historical development of national and regional news media, exploring issues of media ownership and the impact of new technologies on news gathering and reporting. The book concludes by examining journalism's revised editorial priorities and developments in media regulation, and offers detailed case studies of press coverage of the Princess of Wales set against declining news media reporting of Parliamentary and political affairs.

Radical Journalism - Resurgence, Reform, Reaction (Paperback): Seamus Farrell, Eugenia. Siapera, George Souvlis Radical Journalism - Resurgence, Reform, Reaction (Paperback)
Seamus Farrell, Eugenia. Siapera, George Souvlis
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This edited volume offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the historical role of radical journalism, its present iterations, and plans for the future of a journalism that is committed to liberatory movements and politics. At a time of profound crisis and stagnation for mainstream journalism, radical journalism seems to be riding a wave. New outlets, including those – like Jacobin – with a global reach, have sprung up, presenting a new generation of unapologetically progressive publications with an emancipatory agenda. Understanding the role and place of radical journalism becomes even more urgent given the current political climate in a (post) pandemic world with heightened inequalities and intensified pauperisation. Drawing on contributions from leading academics, this collection considers: • How new outlets fit in the genealogy of (radical) journalism and what their flourishing can tell us about the present and future of emancipatory politics and the role of the radical journalist; • What these new forms and publications mean for mainstream journalism and its persisting problems of financial sustainability and professional journalistic labour; • Important challenges presented by, for example, the resurgence of fascism, authoritarianism and the mainstreaming of the far right; • Essential questions of what radical journalism looks like today, what forms it takes or should take, and what its future might be. Radical Journalism is recommended reading for advanced students and journalists working at the intersection of journalism, politics, and sociology.

How to Get a Job in Publishing - A Guide to Careers in the Booktrade, Magazines and Communications (Paperback, 2nd edition):... How to Get a Job in Publishing - A Guide to Careers in the Booktrade, Magazines and Communications (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Alison Baverstock, Susannah Bowen, Steve Carey
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

So you’ve always dreamed of a career in publishing… but you don’t know where to start or how? You’re holding the key in your hands! Using insider information, How to Get A Job in Publishing is the newly revised edition of the classic text for you if you are keen to work in publishing or associated industries – or if you are already in publishing and want to go further. Packed with real-life quotes, case studies and practical advice from publishing veterans, and more recent arrivals, the authors differentiate types of publishing and explain how roles and departments work together. They discuss the pros and cons of internships and further study as well as training and lifelong learning, working internationally, networking and building your personal brand. The book includes vital guidelines for applying for publishing roles, including sample CVs and cover letters and a glossary of industry terms, to make sure you stand out from the crowd when you apply for jobs. This thoroughly updated edition covers: The post-pandemic publishing world, changes and current controversies, the rise of e-books, Amazon, self-publishing and indie publishing The growth in tertiary courses in Publishing Studies and internships – are they really the best way in? How to create your CV and a compelling cover letter that gets you noticed A new chapter addresses equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging, reflecting on the current state of the publishing industry, how to evaluate potential employers and how to look after yourself and others at work. Whether you are a new or soon-to-be graduate of Media and Publishing, or are just interested in a career in publishing or the creative industries, How to Get A Job in Publishing is an essential resource.

The Stars and Stripes - Doughboy Journalism in World War I (Hardcover): Alfred E Cornebise The Stars and Stripes - Doughboy Journalism in World War I (Hardcover)
Alfred E Cornebise
R2,803 R2,537 Discovery Miles 25 370 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Newspapers and the Making of Modern America - A History (Hardcover, New): Aurora Wallace Newspapers and the Making of Modern America - A History (Hardcover, New)
Aurora Wallace
R1,894 R1,729 Discovery Miles 17 290 Save R165 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By investigating specific cases of newspapers in their communities, Newspapers and the Making of Modern America shows the newspaper as an agent of change in the construction and maintenance of community. It develops the theme of a newspaper as a prime mover in enacting policy, supporting development, building neighborhoods, and generally modifying the physical and built environment. Using the newspaper as a window into the study of the twentieth century, the book shows how newspapers have: - Promoted the building of America's first postwar suburb, constructed towns where none had existed before, - Promoted development and new industry, - Built community awareness, cohesion and preservation, - Moved populations from one place to another, - Participated in campaigns both for and against slum clearance, - And carved out communities within communities. Examples include newspapers in relation to their state (Des Moines Register), their county (Long Island Newsday), their region (Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times), their city (New York Daily News, New York Mirror and New York Daily Graphic) their community (Baltimore Afro-American, Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago Defender), their town (Emporia Gazette, Anniston Star) their village (Village Voice, East Village Other) and their nation (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and USA TODAY).

The Government and Misgovernment of London (Hardcover, New Ed): William A. Robson The Government and Misgovernment of London (Hardcover, New Ed)
William A. Robson
R2,056 Discovery Miles 20 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Government and Misgovernment of London was first published in 1939.

A Right to Offend (Hardcover, New): Brian Winston A Right to Offend (Hardcover, New)
Brian Winston
R4,976 Discovery Miles 49 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression. In this new book, Winston provides an account of the current state of freedom of expression in the western world. He analyses all the most pertinent cases of conflict during the last two decades - including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the incident of the Danish cartoons and offended celebrities - examining cultural, legal and journalistic aspects of each case. "A Right to Offend" offers us a deeper understanding of the increasingly threatening environment in which free speech operates and is defended, as well as how it informs and is central to journalism practice and media freedom more generally. It is important reading for all those interested in freedom of expression in the twenty-first century.

The Early American Press, 1690-1783 (Hardcover, c1994-<1999): William D Sloan The Early American Press, 1690-1783 (Hardcover, c1994-<1999)
William D Sloan
R2,801 R2,535 Discovery Miles 25 350 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book in a six-volume series on the history of American journalism, this volume provides a survey of the earliest printing in the American colonies, up through the Revolutionary War. The work focuses on the nature of journalism during the years covered, considers noteworthy figures, examines the relationship of journalism to society, and provides explanations for the main directions that journalism was taking.

Early American printing was animated by remarkable vitality and sophistication, with the life of each newspaper and printer being marked by individual ideas and individual struggles. Early Americans also had quite sophisticated ideas about the role and operation of the press. In this survey, the authors try to suggest the complexities of the early American press. They address such issues as why newspapers first appeared, the purpose that newspaper operators saw for themselves, the role of the practice of journalism in the colonial press, and the role of the press in influencing public opinion. Their primary focus, however, is on the essential nature of the early American press and the factors that accounted for that character.

Creating TV Formats - From Inception to Pitch (Paperback): Catriona Miller, Hazel Marshall, Linda Green Creating TV Formats - From Inception to Pitch (Paperback)
Catriona Miller, Hazel Marshall, Linda Green
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Draws on the authors' extensive careers in television to describe the process of creating a successful media format, presenting the tricks and techniques you need to create, develop and sell your own formats. Each chapter addresses a key elements of a good format, such as audience, structure or business, and shows how they work in current successful formats. Includes insightful case studies based on interviews with experienced television professonals such as Stephen Lambert, creator of Undercover Boss and Gogglebox. Teaches students to create a format bible that will enable them to create a defined set of rules which will make their format recognisable, repeatable and capable of evolving.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood - Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism (Hardcover): Jennifer Frost Hedda Hopper's Hollywood - Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism (Hardcover)
Jennifer Frost
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood," that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers throughout Hollywood's golden age. Often eviscerating moviemakers and stars, her column earned her a nasty reputation in the film industry while winning a legion of some 32 million fans, whose avid support established her as the voice of small-town America. Yet Hopper sought not only to build her career as a gossip columnist but also to push her agenda of staunch moral and political conservatism, using her column to argue against U.S. entry into World War II, uphold traditional views of sex and marriage, defend racist roles for African Americans, and enthusiastically support the Hollywood blacklist. While usually dismissed as an eccentric crank, Jennifer Frost argues that Hopper has had a profound and lasting influence on popular and political culture and should be viewed as a pivotal popularizer of conservatism. The first book to explore Hopper's gossip career and the public's response to both her column and her politics, Hedda Hopper's Hollywood illustrates how the conservative gossip maven contributed mightily to the public understanding of film, while providing a platform for women to voice political views within a traditionally masculine public realm. Jennifer Frost builds the case that, as practiced by Hopper and her readers, Hollywood gossip shaped key developments in American movies and movie culture, newspaper journalism and conservative politics, along with the culture of gossip itself, all of which continue to play out today. Read a review of the book from the Chronicle of Higher Education blog, Tenured Radical.

Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling (Paperback): Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fucker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling (Paperback)
Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fucker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us. This book explores storytelling as a way of engaging audiences with sustainable development issues and reflects on the opportunities and limitations of storytelling for sustainability as an innovative approach to sustainability communication. Bringing together voices and perspectives from research and practice, this volume explores the ways in which storytelling can support change toward sustainability. Unlike other anthologies, the book first provides a sound scientific basis by unfolding the storytelling approach and presenting empirical studies on its impact on effects. It clarifies important terms and presents recent findings on the impact of storytelling on sustainability from an extensive 3-year research project on this question. The second part shows how storytelling can be used in different fields of practice to communicate sustainability in more engaging and effective ways. Here, the main focus is on not only case-based accounts of positive change, but also tensions, arising from the application of storytelling for sustainability in journalism, higher education, corporate communication, or science communication. Combining theory with practical examples, this innovative book will be a great resource for students and scholars of environmental communication and sustainable development, as well as professionals working in related fields.

Latin American Sport Media - The Making Of A Political History of Sport (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Bernardo Buarque De... Latin American Sport Media - The Making Of A Political History of Sport (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda, Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui
R3,658 Discovery Miles 36 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an historical overview of the formation of sports media in Latin America and its role in the construction of the political history of Latin American sport. The sports press was a privileged observer of the development of modern sports, but it was also a key factor in the making of professional sports in Latin America. Most of the literature on sport in Latin America treats the sports press as an historical source, rarely taking it as an object of study in itself. However, the development of sports in the region is connected to national and state-building processes and the role of media narratives is crucial to understanding how sports participate in those processes. Spanning the globalization of football in the late nineteenth century to the shift promoted by television in the 1970s, the chapters survey the historical development of sports media in Latin America. Representing ten countries, the contributors follow a framework that presents the press not as a passive narrator of the sports phenomenon, but as a social agent of the sports field. This book is of use to those interested in the history of sports and the media, and it will be a good resource for undergraduates taking courses on Sports History, Latin American History, Sports Management, and Journalism and Communication.   

Media and Apocalypse - News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake... Media and Apocalypse - News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake (Hardcover)
Conrad G. Smith
R2,222 R2,053 Discovery Miles 20 530 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data, on the professional values of the journalists and on the ways that those values contributed to or interfered with good reporting. The book is based on examination of several thousand newspaper and television stories, on surveys of more than 600 journalists and their sources, on evaluations of news accounts by independent experts, on personal visits to the sites of the catastrophes, and on interviews with more than 100 reporters, correspondents, producers, editors, and their sources. The scholarly goal of the book is to provide a theoretical understanding of the process by which reporters gather information for these kinds of stories and thus to identify changes in the journalistic routine that might encourage more accurate and comprehensive coverage of public issues. He shows how television reports sometimes influence the ways print reporters structure their stories, an effect he calls journalistic priming. He examines the ways in which Pulitzer Prize-winning stories are different from others, and attempts to integrate reporters' and sources' comments with the theoretical literature. This is the first book-length effort that uses a single research design to compare how both print and television journalists covered several major events, and to examine the interrelationship between the television and newspaper reporting. Other scholars often ignore one or the other, as though the two media operated independently.

The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976 - Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street (Hardcover): Benjamin T.... The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940-1976 - Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street (Hardcover)
Benjamin T. Smith
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expression. As Benjamin T. Smith demonstrates in this history of the press and civil society, the cycle of violent repression and protest over journalism is nothing new. He traces it back to the growth in newspaper production and reading publics between 1940 and 1976, when a national thirst for tabloids, crime sheets, and magazines reached far beyond the middle class. As Mexicans began to view local and national events through the prism of journalism, everyday politics changed radically. Even while lauding the liberty of the press, the state developed an arsenal of methods to control what was printed, including sophisticated spin and misdirection techniques, covert financial payments, and campaigns of threats, imprisonment, beatings, and murder. The press was also pressured by media monopolists tacking between government demands and public expectations to maximize profits, and by coalitions of ordinary citizens demanding that local newspapers publicize stories of corruption, incompetence, and state violence. Since the Cold War, both in Mexico City and in the provinces, a robust radical journalism has posed challenges to government forces.

Yesterday's Faces - A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines (Hardcover): Robert Sampson Yesterday's Faces - A Study of Series Characters in the Early Pulp Magazines (Hardcover)
Robert Sampson
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907 1939 pulps scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists."

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