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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century (Routledge Communication) by David H. Weaver Publisher Comments The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $82.75 New - Trade Paper 
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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century (Routledge Communication) by David H. Weaver Publisher Comments The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $238.25 New - Hardcover
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European Identity: What the Media Say by Paul Bayley Publisher Comments European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts. This... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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Weighing Anchors: A Legendary TV Newswriter Critiques the Networks' Top Anchors by Mervin Block Publisher Comments In this illuminating look at what has gone wrong in broadcast newswriting, veteran network newswriter Mervin Block shares his feelings on this alarming decay. His analysis of television news anchors' words reveals a mangling and strangling of the... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers by James O'shea Publisher Comments In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Popular Music Journalism by Martin James Publisher Comments This book explores a variety of arguments and perspectives on the role of the music journalist and the wider popular music press within the cultural and operational contexts of popular music. Individual chapters will analyse the music magazine genre and... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $41.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Sabew Stylebook: 2,000 Business and Financial Terms Defined and Rated by Chris Roush Publisher Comments Simplifying the terms and phrases that make business reporting difficult, this handbook is an essential tool for all business journalists. Including a rating system for various terminology and suggestions on word usage for difficult stories, this... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Inside Reporting by Tim Harrower Publisher Comments No other textbook offers a more engaging and accessible approach to newswriting than Inside Reporting. While emphasizing the basics, this new edition offers a wealth of information on digital reporting and packaging stories in modern, interactive ways... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $107.25 New - Trade Paper
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A Right to Offend: Free Expression in the Twenty-First Century by Brian Winston Publisher Comments Over the past two decades, there have been a series of events that have brought into question the concept and practice of free expression. In this new book, Winston provides an account of the current state of freedom of expression in the Western World... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $159.25 New - Hardcover
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Journalese: A Dictionary for Deciphering the News by Paul Dickson Publisher Comments A comprehensive A-to-Z dictionary of journalistic buzzwords and phrases, this witty book is both a handy reference and a humorous look at the true absurdity of journalists tired quips and clichés. With an irreverent tone, the authors present... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists by John Avlon Synopsis America’s story has always been best told in its newspapers. From the local and mundane– crime blotters, crop prices, and Sunday sermons– to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played an outsized role in our nation&rsquo... (read more) Available September 25, 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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All the Art That's Fit to Print (and Some That Wasn't): Inside the New York Times Op-Ed Page by Jerelle Kraus Publisher Comments All the Art That's Fit to Print reveals the true story of the world's first Op-Ed page, a public platform that--in 1970--prefigured the Internet blogosphere. Not only did the New York Times's nonstaff bylines shatter tradition, but the pictures were... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry (Columbia Journalism Review Books) by Victor S. Navasky Publisher Comments From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this anthology provides a rare, behind-the-scenes... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson by E. Jean Carroll Synopsis Only E. Jean Carroll, called by The New York Times "the female answer to Hunter Thompson" could write a gonzo biography of the master. Carroll writes of the drug-fueled and sex-crazed time she spent living with Hunter S. Thompson. Includes dozens of... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspape by Matthew Algeo Publisher Comments An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friends yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Fighting Words: Canada's Best War Reporting by Mark Bourrie Publisher Comments Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings' fight with North American Natives, through New France's struggle for survival against the... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $29.99 New - Trade Paper
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You Were Never in Chicago (Chicago Visions and Revisions) by Neil Steinberg Publisher Comments In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Leibling in which he dubbed Chicago the “Second City.” From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling’s withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Specialist Journalism by Sharon Wheeler Publisher Comments Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $45.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry (Columbia Journalism Review Books) by Victor S. Navasky Publisher Comments From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this anthology provides a rare, behind-the-scenes... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $84.95 New - Hardcover
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The History of the Nme: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine by Pat Long Publisher Comments The Sex Pistols sang about it, Nick Hornby claims he regrets not working for it. The fights, the bands, the brawls, the haircuts, the egos, and much more—the definitive book about the infamous music magazine. For 60 years, since it was... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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