A unique insight into the work of photo-journalist during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. Written in an accessible style for students of photojournalism and media studies, as well as a general readership interested in these events and how they played out in the media. Includes interviews with award-winning photographers and journalists from the USA, Argentina and China.
Press Standards, Privacy and Libel (HC, Session 2009-10, 362-I)
Today's journalism and communication students need the tools to develop and maintain their own media businesses and freelance careers. In addition to mastering the basics of converged journalism practice, they need training in business entrepreneurship, mass communication and business law, and career and reputation management. The Entrepreneurial Journalist's Toolkit provides a solid foundation of multimedia journalism and also teaches readers to create solid business plans and develop funding p...
I'll Go Down In History As The World's Craziest Event Planner
by Gag Gifts
Aggregated news fills our social media feeds, our smartphone apps, and our e-mail inboxes. Much of the news that we consume originated elsewhere and has been reassembled, repackaged, and republished from other sources, but how is that news made? Is it a twenty-first-century digital adaptation of the traditional values and practices of journalistic and investigative reporting, or is it something different—shoddier, less scrupulous, more dangerous? Mark Coddington gives a vivid account of the wor...
Analysts, political scientists, scholars, and consultants,--The News Shapers describes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for inside information, background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Although they are presented as detached experts, Lawrence C. Soley uncovers their long histories of partisanship as former government officials or politicians, and charges that most of the shapers have no better credentials than the millions of people to wh...
Throughout its history the "Guardian" has had unparalleled access to mountaineers and climbers, and its coverage of the sport is second to none. From Edward Whymper's conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 through to the first ever ascent of Everest in 1953, and on to the extreme climbing (and associated apparatus) that dominates the modern-day incarnation of the sport, the paper has chronicled every development with insight and intelligence. This beguiling collection draws together a selection of "...
Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her 'livres-souvenirs', are far from being autobiographies in the customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiographical story-telling, Anne Freadman's study brings the richness of 'the genre question' to the fore, shedding a fresh light on this much-loved body of work. From the vignettes ofLa Maison...
Relates the memoirs of a free-spirited family whose existence was complexly linked to the world of rodeo.
A Truly Amazing School Secretary Is Hard To Find And Impossible To Forget (Cute Educator Appreciation Gifts, #34)
by Cute Educator Gifts Ma
"You will see war not as a beautiful, orderly and gleaming formation, with music and beaten drums but war in its authentic expression as blood, suffering and death." In April 1855, at the age of 26, Tolstoy was commanding an artillery regiment stationed on the front line of the besieged city of Sebastopol, under constant and brutal bombardment. Tolstoy's searing dispatches from Sebastopol, during what was the most devastating siege in history, would give the Russian people their first glimpse of...