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"Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history...
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"Calvin Trillin can write just about anything-and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our time" (Charleston Post and Courier). But one of his favorite...
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Maybe you're thinking about starting a podcast, and want some tips from the pros. Or perhaps storytelling has always been a passion of yours, and you want to learn to do it more effectively. Whatever the case-whether you're an avid NPR listener or you aspire to create your own audio, or both-Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production will give you a rare tour of the world of a professional broadcaster.
Jonathan Kern, a former...
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"At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...
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Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk...
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"Want to make a living as a freelance writer? Here are the resources, answers, and real talk you need about what it takes to make a living as a writer for hire. Drawing on her own varied and successful years of freelance-copywriting experience, Jessie Kwak offers valuable insights on how to figure out if this fast-paced, ever-evolving career is for you. The book's special focus is on business writing for hire"--
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Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived.
Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their...
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"Complete freedom, nobody enjoys it: we start oppressed by syntax and end up dealing with the Police of Social and Political Order, but, within the narrow limits that grammar and law coerce us, we can still move". This quote of Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (in Memoirs of prison, 1953), also illustrates the present moment of Brazilian journalism. Among so many forms of censorship present in our days: the political and ideological (induced by the...
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Este nuevo libro de la periodista y editora de género María Fitzgerald presenta a los lectores distintas crónicas periodísticas sobre temas de gran coyuntura y reflexión nacional, como lo son las mutilaciones oculares en el marco del Paro Nacional de 2021, la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en las grandes ciudades capitales, los estragos de la minería ilegal y las desapariciones extrajudiciales. Tomando como protagonistas a...
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Esta es una colección de columnas del autor Moisés Wasserman, publicadas en el periódico El Tiempo de Bogotá, entre finales del año 2017 y el 2022, agrupadas en cinco capítulos que llevarán al lector en un recorrido profundo, reflexivo y ameno por distintos
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Una juez en zona guerrillera es el libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Cultura Universidad de Antioquia 2022 en la modalidad Testimonio. Según el jurado, "este es un testimonio que mantiene un hilo conductor y transporta bien al lector a escenarios en los que ocurren los hechos que vive su protagonista. Está narrado de una manera muy auténtica y pone al lector frente a una realidad que el país debe conocer".
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Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his Road Work" column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn't just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns's birthday party under...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.
In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent...
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A collection of the very best in contemporary first-person journalism compiled by the award-winning former Washington Post reporter and author.
Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The Beholder's...
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Get the Summary of Adam Nagourney's The Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Times" by Adam Nagourney chronicles the evolution of The New York Times through various executive editors' tenures, focusing on their leadership styles, the challenges they faced, and the newspaper's transformation in response to internal and external pressures. A.M. Rosenthal's era is marked by his commitment to journalistic standards...
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