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Examines how journalism became a professional occupation separate from politics.

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A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make, this work shows writers precisely where they've gone wrong and how to get on the right track.

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A consideration of the emergence of the columnist and at who the leading columnists have been from the Civil War era to the present. In total, 780 columnists and their work are examined chronologically within several categories: early (1800s) humor, column poets, syndicated political, other syndicated, local, and minority.

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Examines the Baltimore Afro-American from its founding in 1892 to the dawn of the Civil Rights Era in 1950.

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Using interviews of Nazi officials and German publishers, as well as printed and manuscript sources, Mr. Hale tells how the Nazi party developed its own insignificant party press into mass circulation newspapers, and how it forced the transfer of ownership of important papers to camouflaged holding companies controlled by the party's central publis

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This text provides a unique examination of The Christian Science Monitor, a highly respected, venerable news publication that has survived over a century of changes and challenges.

The Christian Science Monitor is one of the world's leading journalistic publications, having won multiple Pulitzer prizes for its reporting.

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This book is about the nature of publishing: its processes, history and technologies. The goal of the book is to provide a theoretical, historical, and philosophical conception of publishing that would help teachers who are beginning to work in computer-supported environments.

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This book is about the nature of publishing: its processes, history and technologies. The goal of the book is to provide a theoretical, historical, and philosophical conception of publishing that would help teachers who are beginning to work in computer-supported environments.

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'The Content Machine' outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.

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The first president of CBS News gives an insider's account of the development of television news in the 1950s.

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The first book in a six-volume series on the history of American journalism, this volume provides a survey of the earliest printing in the American colonies, up through the Revolutionary War.

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Through her analysis of the content of black newspapers and magazines from the 1830s to the 1860s, Frankie Hutton not only presents a prism through which to view the social origins of black journalism in America, but also examines how this little-known ethnic press interfaced with the whole of journalism during the dark ages of the profession.

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Denied its true place in history, the pre-Civil War black press was a forward looking, socially responsible press.

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W. Joseph Campbell, longtime newspaper and wire service journalist, examines the wellsprings of independent journalism in francophone West Africa, and challenges the gloomy assessments that typify many studies of the press in Africa.

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A fine scholarly collection that evokes the pre-WW I era when some 1,300 foreign-language newspapers served America's immigrant millions.

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This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today, using previously un-consulted records to explore how changing practices in the field have affected the country's social and cultural development -- .

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This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today, using previously un-consulted records to explore how changing practices in the field have affected the country's social and cultural development -- .

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A history of the American newspaper during the century of its greatest influence on our society, from the arrival of the penny papers in the 1830s until the coming of radio news around 1930, this book explains what gave the American newspaper its character.

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Includes over 8,000 words, expressions and terminology relating to the publishing and printing industries and allied trades. This book covers papermaking, ink, printing and binding machinery, bookselling, typesetting, desktop publishing and design, copyright, editing, commissioning, contracts, rights and electronic publishing.

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Charts the rise of the group, the personalities and power brokering that shaped its growth and chronicles the bitter rivalries and fierce battles between Packer and his fellow Australian media moguls.

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The author examines the many orientations and perspectives of reporters that gather and present the news of the day. Debunking the idea that there are limited perspectives journalists may use, the author examines up to 15 different orientations that reporters bring to their work.

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