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Biographical sketches of nearly six-hundred print and broadcast journalists from the 1600s to the present. Entries range from very brief to two pages, and the 18th and 19th centuries are the most extensively represented, with only the most prominent of current journalists making the cut. The introduction presents a lively précis of the practice of journalism in the United States. This is a great reference, useful as a starting point for historical...
5) Who stole the news?: why we can't keep up with what happens in the world and what we can do about it
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Even as this book goes to press, a war that could lead to a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India is brewing in the Vale of Kashmir. The economies of France and Germany are headed towards the rocks. Yet most of us will not hear about developments like these until they explode, despite the fact that reporters are better equipped than ever to bring us the stories. Who Stole the News? offers a sharp, candid analysis of the reasons why the public...
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"A memoir of renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's life as a reporter"--Provided by publisher.
"From the Pulitzer-prize-winning, bestselling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time--an intensely personal, revelatory memoir of a matchless career that has encompassed the most important stories of the last half century. Seymour M. Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major...
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"Controversy swirls around the press and its performance today as much as it does around the events and issues the press covers, The focus usually is on the national or big-city newspapers and broadcasters. But America is primarily made up of small towns. The Hard Way takes us beneath the seemingly placid surface of one such town - and inside the office of its small weekly newspaper. The Hard Way examines the lives of the town's people and politicians...
9) Broadcast blues: dispatches from the twenty-year war between a television reporter and his medium
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There have been memoirs by television anchorpeople before, there have been intellectual critiques of the medium, but there has never been a book like Broadcast Blues. In this smart, scathing, and very funny account of his years on the air, former NBC News correspondent Eric Burns exposes the distortions and pretensions of television journalism by showing us how it works, how what we see on our screens gets there, and freely confesses his role in all...
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Who are the greatest reporters in history? This book tries and answers this question. It features 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists. Packed with anecdotes and accounts, it quotes from each reporter's work, and includes an essay on the history of reporting, charting the technologies, economics, and attitudes that made it the way it is.
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Overview: He has been called the most trusted man in America. His 60-year-long journalistic career has spanned the Great Depression, several wars, and the extraordinary changes that have engulfed our nation over the last two-thirds of the 20th century. When Walter Cronkite advised his television audience in 1968 that the war in Vietnam could not be won, President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Now, at the...
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"In 1979, Newsweek dubbed her the Golden Girl. Blond, beautiful, immensely popular with the public, Jessica Savitch had it all. A network anchor at thirty-one, she had made it to the top in a male-dominated world of big stars, big money, and super-egos. But behind the scenes was another story - a woman desperately chasing her dream through a private nightmare of drugs, depression, and disastrous romances and spiraling ever downward - sad victim of...
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Dooley explores the transformation of journalism, examining how journalists established occupational boundaries separating their work from that of politicians. She focuses on how an occupational group that had been inseparable from party politics early in the 19th century grew to be seen by many in society as more distant and independent from parties by the end of the century and became accepted as the citizenry's primary provider of political news...
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In 1948 the column-writing Alsop brothers produced an article for the Saturday Evening Post, then the country's preeminent weekly magazine. Its title: "Must America Save the World?" Their answer was a resounding yes. Indeed, Joseph and Stewart Alsop were there in those heady postwar years when the country's foreign-policy elite created what became known as the American Century. As men of words, they served as confidants of and cheerleaders for the...
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Clear differences between the missions and goals of the press and those of the military, particularly centering around the issues of access and operational security, make historical tensions between the two unsurprising and complete avoidance of tension unlikely. However, significant overlaps, including core goals of professionalism and public service, make cooperation a reasonable possibility. This book traces the back-and-forth interactions between...
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Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, a journalist sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings, and careers. These are, first and foremost, brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects: accompanying a mountaineering expedition to Everest, working as a prison guard, spending nearly a decade...
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In spite of the flood of literature dealing with American television networks, the evening anchors, and prime-time personalities, little has been written about "the foot soldier of network news." Live from the Trenches fills that gap, providing the first examination of television news correspondents and their work, with much of the analysis coming from the correspondents themselves.
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