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.

The year's best writing on tech: a collection as imaginative and compelling as its dynamic subject. Together these essays capture the versatility and verve of technology writing today. Solicited through an open online nominating process, ""The Best of Technology 2007"" explores a wide range of intriguing topics - from ""crowdsourcing"" to the online habits of urban moms to the digital future of movie production. It will appeal to anyone who enjoys stellar writing.

Wenn man Redaktionen als Grenzstellen des Journalismus und PR-Abteilungen als Grenzstellen von Institutionen der Politik, Verwaltung und Wirtschaft versteht, liegt es nahe, nach 'Entgrenzungen' im Sinne einer Beeinflussung oder sogar Steuerung zu fra gen. Aus dieser Perspektive sind die meisten der Studien entstanden, die nach den sicht baren Spuren fragen, die Offentlichkeitsarbeit im Mediensystem hinterlasst. Die Antwort scheint eindeutig. In der bekanntesten deutschen Untersuchung, die von Barbara Baerns durchgefuhrt wurde, wird der Offentlichkeitsarbeit attestiert, sie habe die Themen und sogar das Timing der Berichterstattung unter Kontrolle. Auch in einer Schweizer Studie wurde ermittelt, das Informationsgeschehen werde in erster Linie durch die Pressestellen der Behorden, Verbande und Institutionen deutlich dominiert. Im Lichte neuerer, theoretisch und/oder methodisch anspruchsvollerer Studien lasst sich die These eines dominierenden Einflusses von PR auf die Medienberichterstattung in pauschaler Form jedoch nicht mehr uneingeschrankt aufrechterhalten. Vielmehr ist deut lich geworden, dass das System Journalismus auch hier Resistenz gegen eine Umwelt steuerung aufbringt. Offentlichkeitsarbeit muss schon zu den internen Relevanzhierar chien und Operationsprozeduren passen, wenn sie in der intendierten Weise wirksam werden will. Die Studie "Journalismus in Deutschland" der Forschungsgruppe Journalistik hat in vielfaltigen Zusammenhangen belegt, dass die Journalisten sich selbst am nachsten sind. Ihnen ist zwar durchaus bewusst, dass sie eine Schnittstelle fur vie\faltigste Gruppen und Institutionen bilden, die an der Kommunikation in der Gesellschaft beteiligt sind oder sein wollen. Doch sie sehen diese 'Umwelteinflusse' durchweg als nicht so gravierend an."

Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as celebrating Black Britain's success stories. From hard hitting news reports covering the murder of Stephen Lawrence to championing the likes of Sir Lewis Hamilton and Idris Elba, the newspaper has campaigned, celebrated and educated people for the last forty years. As well as celebrating amazing successes in sport, politics and the arts, The Voice documented everyday life in the community, from the emergence of a Black middle class in the '90s and the achievements of Black entrepreneurs to how different facets of the community were explored in contemporary music and literature. Since its small beginnings in Hackney, The Voice has also become a fantastic training ground for prominent journalists and figures including former politician Trevor Phillips, broadcaster Rageh Omaar and writer Afua Hirsch. Today, The Voice is Britain's longest running and only Black newspaper. Told through news reports, editorials and readers' personal letters, this emotive book documents the social history of Black Britain over the last four decades. Each chapter is illustrated with amazing newspaper pages from The Voice's extensive archives as well as iconic and dramatic front covers from 1982 to the present day. With a foreword from Sir Lenny Henry and written by former and current Voice journalists, this powerful book is a celebration of the ground-breaking paper which gave a voice to the voiceless.

Islamkritik" ist eines der Schlagworte unserer Zeit. Doch dahinter verstecken sich oftmals nur pure Ressentiments. Zugleich lasst sich unter Muslimen eine dogmatische Verteidigungshaltung beobachten, bei der bisweilen jede Kritik von vornherein in den Wind geschlagen wird. Beide Extreme dominieren zu haufig die offentlichen Diskussionen. Der vorliegende Band Islamfeindlichkeit" einerseits und der dazugehorige Band Islamverherrlichung" andererseits nehmen sie daher kritisch in den Blick: Band 1 spurt jene geistigen Stromungen auf, die antiislamische Einstellungen in Deutschland fordern. Band 2 spricht theologische Herausforderungen und Missstande in der hiesigen muslimischen Gesellschaft an - allerdings ohne Pauschalisierung, Populismus und Polemik. Das Gesamtwerk ist somit ein Appell an die Vernunft, hat aber auch dokumentarischen Charakter. In diesem Buch beleuchten renommierte Autoren verschiedene Aspekte vom Islamhass vergangener Jahrhunderte bis zur heutigen Hetze im Internet. Ferner geht es um die Auseinandersetzung mit prominenten Vertretern der Islamkritik" wie Henryk M. Broder, Ralph Giordano, Necla Kelek, Hans-Peter Raddatz und anderen.
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Sprache ist das wichtigste Handwerkszeug des Journalisten, sie gekonnt zu handhaben die Grundlage fur seinen Beruf und die Bewaltigung seiner Aufgabe: das Herstellen von OEffentlichkeit. Dieses Lehrbuch ist die derzeit umfassendste Darstellung der journalistischen Stilkunde. Alle wichtigen Bereiche des journalistischen Sprachgebrauchs werden behandelt: Von der Wortwahl uber die Satz- und Textgestaltung bis zu Stilverfahren bestimmter Genres wie Nachricht oder Kommentar und zum Jargon von Politikern. Die Stilistik ist fur die journalistische Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie als Handbuch fur den Gebrauch im Arbeitsalltag gedacht. Ausserdem kann sie denjenigen nutzlich sein, die in anderen Berufszusammenhangen das Schreiben lernen oder lehren wollen. Jenseits von vereinfachten oder einseitigen Stilrezepten dient das Lehrbuch als Grundlage fur eine verantwortungsvolle Sprachverwendung in der OEffentlichkeit.

Das Lehrbuch fuhrt systematisch in Arbeitsfelder und Techniken des Politikjournalismus ein und vermittelt gleichzeitig breites Hintergrundwissen uber die veranderten Spielregeln der Politikberichterstattung: Praktische Tipps und aktuelle Fallbeispiele werden mit zentralen Forschungsergebnissen aus der Kommunikationswissenschaft verknupft. Ebenso ladt das Buch zum Nachdenken ein: Welche Rolle sollen, welche Rolle wollen Politikjournalisten kunftig in der Gesellschaft spielen?
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'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' Guardian

A mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks ‘what else could I do?’ A runaway teenager who comes of age on the streets and in abandoned buildings. A student who leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he doesn’t want to kill. Each of the thousands of people who come to Europe in search of asylum every year brings a unique story with them. But their stories don’t end there.

In Lights in the Distance, acclaimed journalist Daniel Trilling draws on years of reporting to build a portrait of the refugee crisis, seen through the eyes of the people who experienced it first-hand. As the European Union has grown, so has a tangled and often violent system designed to filter out unwanted migrants – one that extends from the border into cities. Most of us became aware of the crisis when it apparently reached its peak in 2015, but the roots go much deeper. Visiting camps and hostels, sneaking into detention centres and delving into his own family’s history of displacement, Trilling weaves together the stories of people he met and followed from country to country. In doing so, he shows that the terms commonly used to define them – refugee or economic migrant, legal or illegal, deserving or undeserving – fall woefully short of capturing the complex realities.

The founding myth of the EU is that it exists to ensure the horrors of the twentieth century are never repeated. Now, as it comes to terms with its worst refugee crisis since the Second World War, the 'European values' of freedom, tolerance and respect for human rights are being put to the test. Lights in the Distance is a uniquely powerful and illuminating exploration of the nature and human dimensions of the crisis.

An urgent, insightful account of the human side of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by seasoned war reporter Tim Judah Making his way from the Polish border in the west, through the capital city and the heart of the 2014 revolution, to the eastern frontline near the Russian border, Tim Judah brings a rare glimpse of the reality behind the headlines. Along the way he talks to the people living through the conflict - mothers, soldiers, businessmen, poets, politicians - whose memories of a contested past shape their attitudes, allegiances and hopes for the future. Together, their stories paint a vivid picture of what the second largest country in Europe feels like in wartime: a nation trapped between powerful forces, both political and historical. 'Visceral, gripping, heartbreaking' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Haunting . . . timely . . . Interviewing a wide range of people who have been caught up in the recent conflict, Judah concentrates skilfully and affectingly on the human cost' Alexander Larman, Observer 'Comes close to the master, Ryszard Kapuscinski' Roger Boyes, The Times 'A kaleidoscopic portrait . . . Judah looks at the present - what Ukraine looks and feels like now' Marcus Tanner, Independent

Now almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international level. Collected here for the first time are essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings. Larsson never ceased to fight for and write about his most firmly held principles; it was his commitment to these which gave his best-selling novels their explosive force.

The end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion
of print journalism. Chinese-owned newspapers, first encouraged by
Emperor Guangxu to inform and educate an increasingly literate public,
had by the turn of the century become more powerful than the state had
ever anticipated or desired. Yet it was not the "dabao, " or
"important" papers, that proved most influential. Rather it
was the "xiaobao, " the "little" or
"minor" papers - with their reputation for
frivolity - that captivated and empowered the public.
"Merry Laughter and Angry Curses" reveals how the
late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. As
periodical publishing reached a fever pitch, tabloids had free rein to
criticize officials, mock the elite, and scandalize readers, giving the
public knowledge about previously unspeakable and unprintable ideas. In
the name of the people, tabloid writers produced a massive amount of
anti-establishment literature, whose distinctive humour and satirical
style were both potent and popular. This book shows the tabloid
community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the
social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of
imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution.Juan Wang is an independent scholar of Chinese
history.

(Un)covering Men formed part of a journalistic bid to see whether it is possible to write differently about different men. The collected journalism in this book breaks away from overused archetypes and explores how men can be covered in the media in all their diversity and guises. By positioning itself within a broader health media context, the coverage in this book shows how narrowly defined notions of masculinity often facilitate and reinforce risk-taking behaviour. Between 2009 and 2011, journalism fellows of the HIV & AIDS Media Project undertook in-depth research looking to write about men, masculinity and HIV in a new way. The result is this compendium of articles, blogs and photo essays that showcases a diversity of men - each facing a unique context and dealing with sexual health and relationships differently. Structured around four central themes, the four sections in this book bring men's varied roles in the HIV epidemic to the fore - men as lovers, men as partners and fathers, men who have sex with men and men's relationship to traditional and medical male circumcision.

Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world's dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen's biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in American--and eventually international--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causes that Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorful features to a service previously known for stodgy reliability, pushing through disruptive technological innovations like the instantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade to bring American-style press freedom--inseparable from private ownership, in Cooper's view--to every country. His insistence on truthfulness and impartiality presents a sharp contrast to much of today's fractured journalistic landscape. Deeply researched and engagingly written, Mr. Associated Press traces Cooper's career as he built a new foundation for the modern AP and shaped the twentieth-century world of news.

At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In "Emus Loose in Egnar," award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving, but thriving.
In these small towns, stories can range from club news to Klan news, from broken treaties to broken hearts, from banned books to escaped emus; they document the births, deaths, crimes, sports, and local shenanigans that might seem to matter only to those who live there. And yet, as this book shows us, these "little" stories create a mosaic of American life that tells us a great deal about who we are--what moves us, angers us, amuses us. Filled with characters both quirky and courageous, the book is a heartening reminder that there is a different kind of "bottom line" in the hearts of journalists who keep churning out good stories, week after week, for the corniest of reasons: that our freedoms depend on it. Not that they would put it that way, necessarily. In the words of one editor in Colorado, "If we found a political official misusing taxpayer funds, we wouldn't hesitate to nail him to a stump."

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.

When Ron Rozelle and Bill Cornwell, the publisher of ""The Brazosport Facts"", met for their annual lunch, Bill asked what current book Ron was writing. During lunch, they agreed that Ron should try his hand at a weekly column. Ron saw an opportunity both to allow his imagination to wander and to flex his writing muscles. And so, it started. Each week, readers opened their Sunday morning papers to find a column devoted to whatever topic was at hand, be it wizards, geese, holidays, loss, John Wayne, his feline quartet, or sandwiches. ""Sundays with Ron Rozelle"" is a collection of these Sunday columns, characterized by open conversational charm that invites the reader to linger over coffee. Just as Robert Frost's famous poem ""The Pasture"" concludes with ""you come, too,"" Ron beckons to us: you come, too. Through this warm and thoughtful collection, we realize what really matters in our lives.

'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New York From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature. Self takes us with him: from the foibles of his typewriter repairman to the irradiated exclusion zone of Chernobyl, to the Australian outback and to literary forms past and future. With his characteristic intellectual brio, Self aims his inimitable eye at titans of literature like Woolf, Kafka, Orwell and Conrad. He writes movingly on W.G. Sebald's childhood in Germany and provocatively describes the elevation of William S. Burroughs's Junky from shocking pulp novel to beloved cult classic. Self also expands on his regular column in Literary Hub to ask readers how, what and ultimately why we should read in an ever-changing world. Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online, Self's trademark intoxicating prose and mordant, energetic humour infuse every piece.

A Dictionary of Journalism is an accessible and authoritative quick reference dictionary. It covers over 1,400 wide-ranging entries on the terms that are likely to be encountered by students of the subject, and aims to offer a broad, accessible point of reference on an ever-topical and constantly-changing field that affects everyone's knowledge and perception of the world. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the subject, it covers terminology relating to the practice, business, and technology of journalism, as well as its concepts and theories, organizations and institutions, publications, and key events. Related topic areas are covered where they impact on or offer explanations of journalism: for example in law, where legislation affects journalistic activity; and where sociological studies seek to aid the understanding of journalism. Appendices include a timeline of journalistic developments, contextualising the ever-evolving nature of journalism, as well as an index of significant individuals in the field. It is an essential companion to all students taking courses in Journalism and Journalism Studies, as well as related subjects such as Communications Studies, Media Studies, and Television and Radio Production.

This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Since his tragic death while covering the massive Chicano antiwar moratorium in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970, Ruben Salazar has become a legend in the Chicano community. As a reporter and later as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Salazar was the first journalist of Mexican American background to cross over into the mainstream English-language press. He wrote extensively on the Mexican American community and served as a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Vietnam. This first major collection of Salazar's writing is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the United States. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary history of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and of the changing perspective of the nation as a whole. Border Correspondent presents selections from each period of Salazar's career. The stories and columns document a growing frustration with the Kennedy administration, a young Cesar Chavez beginning to organize farm workers, the Vietnam War, and conflict between police and community in East Los Angeles. One of the first to take investigative journalism into the streets and jails, Salazar's first-hand accounts of his experiences with drug users and police, ordinary people and criminals, make compelling reading. Mario Garcia's introduction provides a biographical sketch of Salazar and situates him in the context of American journalism and Chicano history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

The model for this volume is the enormously successful Vintage Original DISTANT VOICES (93,000 copies sold to date). It will gather together essays on a range of subjects including Burma,Fleet Street, East Timor,Vietnam today,the media and UK politics. 'Pilger is the closest we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s...The Truth in his hands is a weapon,to be picked up and brandished and used in the struggle against evil and injustice' GUARDIAN

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 The riveting story of a nation at a crucial crossroads From the start of his stint as RTE's Washington Correspondent Brian O'Donovan's lively and authoritative reporting of a tumultuous period in American life has been must-watch TV. Four Years in the Cauldron is his account of four busy years working in the US. He draws a compelling picture, full of telling colour and detail, of covering its fractured politics, particularly the extraordinary presidency of Donald Trump and the knife-edge election of Joe Biden. And he gives his unique perspective on big stories such as the Covid emergency, the Capitol riot, the murder of George Floyd and trial and conviction of his police killer. He also provides a visceral sense of what it's like living in a country shaped by guns, God, far-fetched conspiracy theories and the running sore of racism. Yet, drawing on his network of contacts, neighbours, friends and family connections outside the white-hot heat of Washington politics, he writes about the lives of ordinary American people with nuance and understanding. Four Years in the Cauldron is a must-read for getting to grips with the US at a moment of profound reckoning. ______ 'An intriguing look at an extraordinary time . . . the book brings us to some fascinating places' Ryan Tubridy 'A great read' The Last Word With Matt Cooper