Gender has a tremendous effect on journalists and the journalism industry; the stories they tell; and the people who consume those stories. Alongside histories of journalism, equal rights, and feminist movements, this textbook incorporates issues of race, class, and sexuality including the experiences of men and LGBTQ communities.
Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers
In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few ......
In Make It Memorable, former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual storytelling. The third edition offers new insight for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create all kinds of visual ......
In Make It Memorable, former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual storytelling. The third edition offers new insight for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create all kinds of visual ......
Follow one of the first women network news producers as she climbs the career ladder right through the headlines of American history. Mason recounts career highlights of working side-by-side with media giants such as Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, covering history-in-the-making as she smashed the glass ceiling of the network news world.
The message of one of our founders, Stephen Spender, was that Index wouldn?t be doing a good job if it didn?t keep an eye on attacks to free expression that happen on home soil. With this in mind and with the recent death of Queen Elizabeth II putting the UK under increased global scrutiny, we spoke to the royal historian Andrew Lownie. He told us about his battle to access archives on the Mountbattens, part of the British royal family?s inner circle. While Lownie was ultimately successful, but at great personal cost, he told us the files he struggled to access were just some of hundreds that are denied the British public for no good reason. We decided to look into this censorship of British royal history, and the results of our special report are eye-opening. The number of historic files on the Royal Family which are unavailable, and the absurdity of the reasons for denying access to some of them, is staggering. Many historians and journalists are unable to carry out their work as a result. In one instance an entire book was dropped because of lack of access. We end the year with a simple request: to end this culture of secrecy by opening up official archives related to the Royal Family. Beyond our special report, we interview the Ukrainian author and 2022 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards winner Andrey Kurkov; Vandana Shiva tells us how the control of seeds silences farmers in India; and Kaya Genc looks at how the Turkish government has waged a convenient war on ?misinformation? ahead of next year?s general elections.
An Investigation of Facebook and Twitter Higher Education Web Pages
This book investigates whether Facebook and Twitter have become a genre, particularly for higher education institutions. The author examines the purpose, form, and functionality of higher education's institutional web pages on these platforms through a combination of content analysis and interviews.
From his earliest days as a culture-beat reporter, through a wildly successful four decades in the book business, to his latest philanthropic ventures, Stephen Rubin has witnessed up close the highs and lows of publishing, music, and entertainment over the last half-century. Now, in this refreshingly forthright and uninhibited memoir, he shares ......
This is the first far-reaching historical analysis of how press critics have kept American journalism honest and working on behalf of a free and democratic society. Merging history, biography, and forthright critique, Shame the Devil chronicles press commentary from the bitter aftermath of World War I to the paradoxes of the post-truth era.
This edited volume looks at the history and theories of trigger warnings, the ethics of use, and presents case studies from instructors and students describing instances when trigger warnings were and were not used. By exploring the issue through scholarly lenses and examples, Trigger Warnings provides rigorous analysis of the controversy.
This book explores the evolution of how sports journalists have covered the struggle of professional athletes who have experienced mental illness. Combining historical research and narrative analysis, Ronald Bishop interrogates whether sports journalists have finally begun to cover the experience of mental illness with sufficient depth.
Challenging the Traditions of Women's Roles, Newspaper Content, and Comm
This biography details the life and career of Vivian Castleberry, a Dallas women's page editor, women's rights advocate, and newspaper pioneer in the post-World War II era. Her career demonstrates what women journalists were able to accomplish both behind the scenes and in the public sphere.
In this book, using both qualitative and quantitative scientific research as a basis, contributors analyze how migration is depicted in news media and social media from Spain, Italy and Greece and the implications and consequences of these portrayals.
This book provides strategies fpr building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.
Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem
This book explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting and its effects on the growth of criminal justice reform advocacy in the United States. Sherrill argues that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations with multiple goals, including entertainment, criminal justice reform advocacy, and journalistic inquiry.
