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Writing as a newspaper reporter for nearly forty years, Curtis
Wilkie covered eight presidential campaigns, spent years in the
Middle East, and traveled to a number of conflicts abroad. However,
his memory keeps turning home and many of his most treasured
stories transpire in the Deep South. He called his native
Mississippi, ""the gift that keeps on giving."" For Wilkie, it
represented a trove of rogues and racists, colorful personalities
and outlandish politicians who managed to thrive among people
otherwise kind and generous. Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians,
and Other Persons of Interest collects news dispatches and feature
stories from the author during a journalism career that began in
1963 and lasted until 2000. As a young reporter for the Clarksdale
Press Register, he wrote many articles that dealt with the civil
rights movement, which dominated the news in the Mississippi Delta
during the 1960s.Wilkie spent twenty-six years as a national and
foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe. One of the original
""Boys on the Bus"" (the title of a best-selling book about
journalists covering the 1972 presidential campaign), he later
wrote extensively about the winning races of two southern
Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Wilkie is known for
stories reported deeply, rife with anecdotes, physical
descriptions, and important background details. He writes about the
notorious, such as the late Hunter S. Thompson, as well as more
anonymous subjects whose stories, in his hands, have enduring
interest. The anthology collects pieces about several notable
southerners: Ross Barnett; Byron De La Beckwith and Sam Bowers;
Billy Carter; Edwin Edwards and David Duke; Trent Lott; and Charles
Evers. Wilkie brings a perceptive eye to people and events, and his
eloquent storytelling represents some of the best journalistic
writing.
Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English
journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This
coverage of his writing offers a broad insight into British social
and political developments, government and press relations,
propaganda, and war reporting during the First World War.
Joint winner: Prize for Australian History, 2015 Prime Minister's
Literary Awards This award-winning biography is a long overdue
reassessment of the iconic Australian war correspondent 'The book I
have enjoyed most in recent times has been Ross Coulthart's on the
great war correspondent Charles Bean' - Peter FitzSimons, Sun
Herald 'Fascinating biography ...strongly recommend it' Hon.
Malcolm Turnbull via Twitter Charles Bean's wartime reports and
photographs mythologised the Australian soldier and helped spawn
the notion that the Anzacs achieved something nation-defining on
the shores of Gallipoli and the battlefields of western Europe. In
his quest to get the truth, Bean often faced death beside the
Diggers in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Western Front - and
saw more combat than many. But did Bean tell Australia the whole
story of what he knew? In this timely new biography, Ross Coulthart
investigates the untold story behind Bean's jouralistic dilemma -
his struggle to tell Australia the truth but also the pressure he
felt to support the war and boost morale at home by suppressing
what he'd seen. '[Bean] had an obsession with recording the truth
and Coulthart has lived up to his legacy in this superb biography'
- Tim Hilferty, Adelaide Advertiser 'This is among the best
biographies of an Australian historian available, fittingly
released during the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the events
Bean meticulously recorded.' - Justin Cahill, Booktopiablog
David Mitchell’s 2014 bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse must really have made people think – because everything’s got worse. We’ve gone from UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, from horsemeat in lasagne to Donald Trump in the White House, from Woolworths going under to all the other shops going under. It’s probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up.
But if you’re determined to give it a go, you might enjoy this eclectic collection (or eclection) of David Mitchell’s attempts to make light of all that darkness. Scampi, politics, the Olympics, terrorism, exercise, rude street names, inheritance tax, salad cream, proportional representation and farts are all touched upon by Mitchell’s unremitting laser of chit-chat, as he negotiates a path between the commercialisation of Christmas and the true spirit of Halloween. Read this book and slightly change your life!
Reporting and Writing on Journalism's New Frontier teaches students
the fundamentals of good reporting tactics and gives them a solid
command of basic writing techniques. The book emphasizes practical
skills a good journalist needs before even beginning to report,
explains the kind of stories that work best for each medium,
explores good news-gathering habits, and describes successful
interviewing tactics. It provides clear guidelines for quality
writing including the importance of organizing a story before
writing, purging cliches, redundancies, and euphemisms, creating
great headlines, and writing with clarity. Individual chapters are
devoted to the specific needs of writing for radio, television, and
the web. The book also contains sound advice on libel and slander
laws that are essential information for avoiding litigation.
Reporting and Writing on Journalism's New Frontier is a concise,
current, engaging exploration of practical tools and techniques
that writers can employ immediately and use every day. The book is
designed for multimedia journalism courses.
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's
rich, witty and inspiring reading diary 'Read what you enjoy, not
what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection
of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's
done. From historical tomes to comic books, literary novels to
children's stories, political thrillers to travel writing, Stuff
I've Been Reading details Nick's thoughts and experiences on books
by George Orwell, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin,
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Cormac
McCarthy and many, many more. This wonderfully entertaining journey
in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations
- it takes into account the role that books actually play in our
lives. This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's
status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It
will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as
readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker.
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900;
1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in
the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white,
disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied
her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both travelled openly by
train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on
Christmas Day. In Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara
McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations
and partnerships that characterized the Crafts' activism for the
next thirty years: in Boston, where they were on the run again
after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law; in England; and
in Reconstruction-era Georgia. McCaskill also provides a close
reading of the Crafts' only book, their memoir, Running a Thousand
Miles for Freedom, published in 1860. Yet as this study of key
moments in the Crafts' public lives argues, the early print
archive-newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, legal documents-fills
gaps in their story by providing insight into how they navigated
the challenges of freedom as reformers and educators, and it
discloses the transatlantic British and American audiences'
changing reactions to them. By discussing such events as the 1878
court case that placed William's character and reputation on trial,
this book also invites readers to reconsider the Crafts' triumphal
story as one that is messy, unresolved, and bittersweet. An
important episode in African American literature, history, and
culture, this will be essential reading for teachers and students
of the slave narrative genre and the transatlantic antislavery
movement and for researchers investigating early
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Communications -
Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: Distinction, Swansea
University, course: Erasmus Mundus M.A. in Journalism, Media and
Globalization (War and Conflict), language: English, abstract:
Since the 1970s, commercial pressures on news media organizations
have increased and as a result, television news networks have
started to adapt marketing and product differentiation strategies
from the Hollywood movie industry. So today, even the war and
conflict coverage of 24-hour news networks is subject to heavy
promotion and part of the networks' advertising and branding
campaigns. These commercial aspects of news production, however,
seem to oppose concepts of journalistic quality. Conflict coverage
promotion and image spots of 24-hour news networks therefore pose a
great opportunity to investigate a phenomenon at the cross-roads of
both commercial entertainment television and quality journalism.
This study analyses claims of journalistic quality and 'high
concept' in these spots and how they are linked to better
understand the ideological complexes of CNN International and Al
Jazeera English. The findings show an equal number of quality and
'high concept' claims with differences in the nature of the claims
between the two networks. The way the claims are distributed
throughout the modes of visual, voice, sound and music, as well as
the way they are linked within and across modes, however, show very
similar patterns. These patterns exist for quality and 'high
concept' claims as well as for both 24-hour television news
networks. The largest number of claims appears in the visual mode.
The research also shows that analysing this kind of media text
needs to be multimodal and that a social semiotic approach is
appropriate for analysing claims-making and linking in conflict
coverage promotional spots.
Paddy McGuffin turns his bilious wit on a procession of fools,
liars, hypocrites and war criminals from David Cameron to the Queen
in this collection of his best columns for the Morning Star, the
daily socialist newspaper
'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the
great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of
generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi
Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of
people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for
the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from
the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material
on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next. Here
is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the
climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also
as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging
from the clash between ecological time and our culture of
'perpetual now,' to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders
as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action
for a planet on the brink. With dispatches from the ghostly Great
Barrier Reef, the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest,
post-hurricane Puerto Rico and a Vatican attempting an
unprecedented 'ecological conversion,' Klein makes the case that we
will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we
are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
This is the fight for our lives. On Fire captures the burning
urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the energy of a rising
political movement demanding change now.
This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by
revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that
feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are
Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie Olsen,
Tess Slesinger, Agnes Smedley, and Meridel Le Sueur. Other voices
may be new to readers, including many working-class Black and white
women. Topics covered range from sexuality and family
relationships, to race, class, and patriarchy, to party politics.
Toni Morrison writes that the anthology is "peopled with
questioning, caring, socially committed women writers."
'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim Shipman A blistering narrative
expose of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour
party, now revised and updated. * A Times, Guardian, Daily
Telegraph, Sunday Times and i Newspaper Book of the Year * Left Out
tells, for the first time, the astonishing full story of Labour's
recent transformation and historic defeat. Drawing on unrivalled
access, this blistering expose moves from the peak of Jeremy
Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to
Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer. It
reveals a party at war with itself, and puts the reader in the room
as tensions boil over, sworn enemies forge unlikely alliances and
lifelong friendships are tested to breaking point. This is the
ultimate account of the greatest experiment seen in British
politics for a generation. 'Gripping... Every bit as good as people
say' Guardian 'Reads like a thriller...told with panache and pace'
Financial Times 'The definitive post-mortem of the Corbyn project'
Sunday Times
Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a
century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of
fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker
(1847-1912), three works never before reprinted, twelve period
writings about Stoker, and the rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of
his personal library.
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