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The Associated Press Stylebook 2013
The Associated Press Stylebook 2013
by Associated Press
Publisher Comments
 The style of the Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. With The AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn how to write and edit with the clarity and professionalism for which they are famous. Fully revised and updated, this new edition... (read more)

Available July 2013
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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
by James E. Mueller
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The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American... (read more)

Available October 2013
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Extra! Extra!: How the People Made the News
Extra! Extra!: How the People Made the News
by David Hastings
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From the mid-19th-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the 20th-century dominance of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star, the story of Aucklands newspapers is an engrossing battle of wits that reveals much about... (read more)

Available May 2013
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Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13
Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13
by Mickey Huff
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Every year since 1976, Project Censored, our nation's oldest news-monitoring group--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has... (read more)

Available October 1, 2013
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Popular Music Journalism
Popular Music Journalism
by Martin James
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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 October 2013
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Journalism and the End of Objectivity
Journalism and the End of Objectivity
by Howard Tumber
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News objectivity has been debated for many decades. Yet the new communications environment, marked by technological, social and political innovations, invites us to re-examine objectivity. To what extent can news reporting be objective? What is... (read more)

Available June 2014
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Government Communication: Cases and Challenges
Government Communication: Cases and Challenges
by Karen Sanders
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Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent... (read more)

Available August 2013
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
by Bill Kovach
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The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read “What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice is weave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership... (read more)

Available December 3, 2013
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Scholastic Journalism
Scholastic Journalism
by C. Dow Tate
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For more than 60 years, Scholastic Journalism has served as an invaluable and comprehensive textbook and guide to the study and practice of journalism for high school students, teachers, and advisors. With ongoing technological advances continuing to... (read more)

Available May 2013
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Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
by Gretchen Soderlund
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By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. The lurid penny presses of the industrial East had been mixing a potent cocktail of sensationalism to tempt the American public and increase newspaper circulation, but... (read more)

Available June 2013
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Government Communication: Cases and Challenges
Government Communication: Cases and Challenges
by Karen Sanders
Publisher Comments
Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent... (read more)

Available August 2013
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Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson
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 November 2013
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Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
by Chris Jones
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The first known Chicago Tribune theater review appeared on March 25, 1853. An anonymous notice, it shared the page with two other announcements—one about a pair of thousand-pound hogs set to be slaughtered and another trumpeting the... (read more)

Available October 2013
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Journalism and the End of Objectivity
Journalism and the End of Objectivity
by Howard Tumber
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News objectivity has been debated for many decades. Yet the new communications environment, marked by technological, social and political innovations, invites us to re-examine objectivity. To what extent can news reporting be objective? What is... (read more)

Available June 2014
Your price: $37.25
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The History of the Society of Professional Journalists: 1984-2012
The History of the Society of Professional Journalists: 1984-2012
by Jim Schuette
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Chronicling 25 critical years in the history of news media, this examination looks at the vast changes and uncharted territory the industry has faced. Offering the unique vantage point of the Society of Professional Journalists—the preeminent... (read more)

Available July 2013
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Scholastic Journalism
Scholastic Journalism
by C. Dow Tate
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For more than 60 years, Scholastic Journalism has served as an invaluable and comprehensive textbook and guide to the study and practice of journalism for high school students, teachers, and advisors. With ongoing technological advances continuing to... (read more)

Available May 2013
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Starting Your Career as a Professional Blogger
Starting Your Career as a Professional Blogger
by Jacqueline Bodnar
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With traffic to personal blogs and online journalism sites on the rise, there are more blogging opportunities than ever before. With the right approach, a blog can be an extra source of cash, or it can be a business unto itself yielding thousands of... (read more)

Available June 2013
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Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires
Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires
by David Folkenflik
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NPRs media correspondent delves into the most influential media company in the world, News Corporation, showing how Murdoch survived the corruption scandal that nearly tore it apart In July 2012, testifying before a British parliamentary inquiry about... (read more)

Available October 2013
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Practicing Journalism: The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate
Practicing Journalism: The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate
by Sara Brown
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An ambitious project of discovery, this insightful examination studies the varied reasons that journalists remain dedicated to reporting the news. With profiles and first-person interviews with 91 American media members from across the United States... (read more)

Available September 2013
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From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune," "Sun-Times," and Other Newspapers
From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune," "Sun-Times," and Other Newspapers
by Ron Rapoport
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Bears, Bulls, Cubs, Sox, Blackhawks—there’s no city like Chicago when it comes to sports. Generation after generation, Chicagoans pass down their almost religious allegiances to teams, stadiums, and players and their never-say-die attitude... (read more)

Available October 2013
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