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Journeys inside the world of contemporary news media to explain why news reporting is deteriorating, the values that dominate the news business, and how to restore serious, incorruptible, and revelatory journalism.

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Analysts, political scientists, scholars and consultants - this book describes the individuals that the media approach for "inside information", background or predictions concerning the outcome of news. This book is based on three major networks' broadcasts between 1987 and 1988.

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In this lively account of the rise of a commercial newspaper industry in imperial Russia, Louise McReynolds explores how the mass-circulation press created a forum for popular opinion advocating political change. From the Great Reforms of Tsar Alexander II in 1855 to the Bolsheviks' shut-down of the newspapers in 1917, she chronicles the exploits o

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A study of the transition from partisan to commercial newspapers as a gradual process between the founding of the penny papers in New York through the Civil War.

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This informal history by a former long-time editor of The Jerusalem Post represents the only book to date that depicts the relationship between the press and the political system in Israel.

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Throughout American history, the press has been incredibly adept at making the public aware. The press's attempt to lead public opinion is the focus of the chapters on the partisan press, the antebellum period, and the first Red Scare in 1919.

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Throughout American history, the press has been incredibly adept at making the public aware. The press's attempt to lead public opinion is the focus of the chapters on the partisan press, the antebellum period, and the first Red Scare in 1919.

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The second book in a six-volume series on the history of American journalism, this book focuses on the 50 years following the end of the Revolution, during which the American press grew and expanded.

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Analyzes public journalism and illustrates its failure to address the most significant problems of American journalism.

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This work is the fifth volume in the series, The History of American Journalism. From coast to coast, newsgathering agencies knit thousands of local newspapers into the fabric of the nation and larger metropolitan papers routinely considered the relevancy of distant news.

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This book traces the history of television journalism in Britain from its austere roots in the BBC's post-war monopoly to the present-day plethora of 24 hour channels and celebrity presenters.

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The book stresses that the reporting process is more difficult than most critics and reporters realize, and points out that the best reporters are those who will take time to recognize challenges and work to overcome them.

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Each week the editors of Slate, one of the first and best on-line literary magazines, ask a different person to keep a diary. The Slate Diaries is a selection of some of the best of those diaries.

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'The Sociology of Journalism' combines a comprehensive survey of the elements of journalistic production with critical analysis of traditional liberal pluralist and materialist perspectives on the subject.

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This book is a study of the 2012-2013 transition of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans from a daily newspaper to a three-day-a-week publication with emphasis on its online presence (Digital First). It is instructive for all concerned with what the transformation might signify for the news profession and the role of the press in the digital age.

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The book examines the system used to produce professional communicators in the United States, compares the system to that of other countries, and examines the impact of the system on the field of mass communications.

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This book analyzes the American media's structure and its role in shaping perceptions of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and looks at the key issues involved, from self-determination to genocide.

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The Untapped Power of the Press argues that Americans ought to be able to find out how government really works in order to debate the issues. Wolfson calls for more quality media power, and more hardhitting analysis, and closer scrutiny of government policy.