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Seeking a Voice This volume chronicles the media’s role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and …

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Reporting Iraq An Oral This book is remarkable for its previously unreported insights and candor. I suppose the participating journalists have nothing to lose now when they talk about the challenges of reporting the war …

Tell It Slant Writing The best way to learn to write well is to read quality writing, and the pieces in “TIS” are very well-written and well-chosen to demonstrate particular elements of good writing. Breathe life into …

News Crime And Culture Having been assigned to read this book for a graduate-school mass communications course, I expected a book rife with information and depth of research.However, the author decided to hide all this …

Writing Dissent Taking Radical Robert Jensen’s recent book Writing Dissent is terse, pleasantly readable, enlightening and practical. The book is a `how to’ of the kind radicals are awfully in need of. Spearheaded by …

Dickens the Journalist Dickens’s career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposés, satires and reminiscences. This in-depth study offers …

True Enough Learning to As a librarian, Wikipedia is the bane of my existence. Not that I don’t check it myself, but I know you certainly cannot trust it as a definitive source. If you’re going to use it, fine, but keep in …

Tabloid Valley Supermarket News With sensational headlines and scandalous photos, supermarket tabloids dish out the dirt on everyone and everything from space aliens and Bat Boy to Elvis and Britney. Although they were once the …

The World News Prism Analyzing the changing role of transnational news media in our evolving globalization and its impact on rapidly changing news events, The World News Prism appeals beyond the classroom to journalism …

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