Category: Journalism

By Gay Talese

ISBN-10: 0802719139

ISBN-13: 9780802719133

With a brand new preface and afterword by way of the writer and drawings by means of Lili Rethi.

Towards the tip of 1964, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge—linking the recent York urban boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island with New Jersey—was accomplished. It continues to be an engineering surprise virtually 40 years later—at 13,700 toes (more than and a part miles), it's nonetheless the longest suspension bridge within the usa and the 6th longest on the earth. homosexual Talese, then early in his occupation at the big apple Times, heavily the development, and shortly after the outlet his booklet The Bridge seemed. by no means prior to in paperback, it is still either a riveting human drama of politics and braveness, and an indication of Talese’s consummate talents as a reporter and storyteller. His memorable narrative — followed, as then, via the astonishingly appealing operating drawings of Lili Rethi — will now captivate a brand new iteration of readers.

First released 1964

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ISBN-13: 9780802719133

By Udo Ulfkotte

ISBN-10: 3864451434

ISBN-13: 9783864451430

Journalisten manipulieren uns im Interesse der Mächtigen Haben auch Sie das Gefühl, häufig manipuliert und von den Medien belogen zu werden? Dann geht es Ihnen wie der Mehrheit der Deutschen. Bislang galt es als »Verschwörungstheorie«, dass Leitmedien uns Bürger mit Propagandatechniken gezielt manipulieren. Jetzt enthüllt ein Insider, was once wirklich hinter den Kulissen passiert. Der Journalist Udo Ulfkotte schämt sich heute dafür, dass er 17 Jahre für die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung gearbeitet hat. Bevor der Autor die geheimen Netzwerke der Macht enthüllt, übt er konsequent Selbstkritik. Er dokumentiert hier zum ersten Mal, wie er für seine Berichterstattung in der FAZ geschmiert und die Korruption gefördert wurde. Und er enthüllt, warum Meinungsführer tendenziös berichten und wie der verlängerte Arm der NATO-Pressestelle Kriege medial vorbereitet. Wie selbstverständlich wurde auch der Autor in die Netzwerke amerikanischer Eliteorganisationen aufgenommen, erhielt im Gegenzug für optimistic Berichterstattung in den united states sogar eine Ehrenbürgerurkunde. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, in welchen Lobbyorganisationen welche Journalisten vertreten sind. Der Autor nennt Hunderte Namen und blickt auch hinter die Kulissen jener Organisationen, welche unsere Medien propagandistisch einseitig beeinflussen, etwa: Atlantik-Brücke, Trilaterale Kommission, German Marshall Fund, American Council on Germany, American Academy, Aspen Institute und Institut für Europäische Politik. Enthüllt werden zudem die geheimdienstlichen Hintergründe zu Lobbygruppen, die Propagandatechniken und die Formulare, mit denen guy etwa bei der US-Botschaft Fördergelder für Projekte zur gezielten Beeinflussung der öffentlichen Meinung in Deutschland abrufen kann. Wenn die CIA vorgibt, used to be geschrieben wird Können Sie sich vorstellen, dass Geheimdienstmitarbeiter in Redaktionen Texte verfassen, welche dann im redaktionellen Teil unter den Namen bekannter Journalisten veröffentlicht werden? Wissen Sie, welche Journalisten welcher Medien für ihre Berichterstattung geschmiert wurden? Und haben Sie eine ungefähre Vorstellung davon, wie renommierte »Journalistenpreise« vergeben werden? Da geht es im Hintergrund zu wie bei den einstigen Ehrungen der »Helden der Arbeit« in der früheren DDR da wird Propagandaarbeit ausgezeichnet. Vom Journalisten zum Propagandisten ist es nicht weit. Wenn Sie dieses Buch gelesen haben, werden Sie unsere Zeitungen mit ganz anderen Augen sehen, den Fernseher öfter einfach abschalten und auch wissen, was once Sie dem Radio noch glauben können: quickly nichts. Denn Ulfkotte schreibt auch penibel auf, welcher Sender welcher politischen Partei gehört und welche Journalisten wie beeinflusst werden. Sie erkennen, wie Sie manipuliert werden und Sie wissen, von wem und warum. Am Ende wird klar: Meinungsvielfalt wird jetzt nur noch simuliert. Denn unsere »Nachrichten« sind häufig reine Gehirnwäsche.

By Florian Coulmas

ISBN-10: 1107016428

ISBN-13: 9781107016422

How does writing relate to speech? What impression does it have on social employer and improvement? How do unwritten languages range from those who have a written shape and culture? This publication is a common account of where of writing in society. Drawing on modern and ancient examples, from clay drugs to touchscreen screens, the booklet explores the services of writing and written language, analysing its outcomes for language, society, economic system and politics. It examines the social motives of illiteracy, demonstrating that associations of principal significance to trendy society are outfitted upon writing and written texts, and are characterized through particular types of conversation. It explores the social dimensions of spelling and writing reform, in addition to of electronic literacy, a brand new mode of expression and communique posing novel demanding situations to the scholar of language in society.

By Barbara Korte Horst Tonn (Hrsg.)

ISBN-10: 353115091X

ISBN-13: 9783531150918

By Rachel Davis Mersey

ISBN-10: 0313392080

ISBN-13: 9780313392085

ISBN-10: 0313392099

ISBN-13: 9780313392092

By means of a few measures, it'll appear that print journalism is death. Journalism lately suffered one in every of its worst flow declines in years: a drop of greater than ten percentage within the a six month interval finishing September 30, 2009. The Rocky Mountain information in Denver, CO, closed its doorways in 2009—after it ruled the AP awards in 2008, and used to be lauded for an investigative reveal on unfair therapy of former nuclear employees. Even the recent York instances and the Washington publish are experiencing monetary hassle. yet print advertisements profit nonetheless trumps web advertising profit ten-fold. Is there wish but for standard journalism?This booklet studies the complex problem dealing with journalism, tracing its 19th-century community-oriented origins and documenting the colossal enlargement of the inside track enterprise through blogs and different Internet-enabled retailers, user-generated content material, and news-like possible choices. the writer argues radical shift in mindset—striving to satisfy each one individual's calls for for what he desires to know—will be essential to keep journalism.

By Harry Henderson

ISBN-10: 0816047685

ISBN-13: 9780816047680

By Herman Wasserman

ISBN-10: 0415577942

ISBN-13: 9780415577946

Popular Media, Democracy and improvement in Africa examines the position that renowned media may well play to motivate political debate, offer info for improvement, or critique the very definitions of ‘democracy’ and ‘development’. Drawing on diversified case stories from a variety of areas of the African continent, essays hire more than a few theoretical and methodological ways to invite severe questions on the opportunity of well known media to give a contribution to democratic tradition, offer websites of resistance, or, conversely, act as brokers for the unfold of Americanized leisure tradition to the detriment of neighborhood traditions. a large choice of media codecs and structures are mentioned, starting from radio and tv to the net, cell phones, road posters, movie and music.

As a part of the Routledge sequence Internationalizing Media Studies, the ebook responds to the $64000 problem of broadening views on media experiences by way of bringing jointly various specialist analyses of media within the African continent that would be of curiosity to scholars and students of media in Africa and additional afield.

By Rick Thompson

ISBN-10: 0203342674

ISBN-13: 9780203342671

ISBN-10: 0415317975

ISBN-13: 9780415317979

Writing for Broadcast newshounds is the basic consultant to writing information for tv and radio, guiding readers in the course of the major changes among writing textual content to be learn, and writing spoken English that may be heard. This booklet is helping broadcast reporters at each degree in their careers to prevent newspaper-style ‘journalese’, clich?s, jargon, and misguided grammar or pronunciation, whereas shooting the immediacy of the spoken be aware in artistic broadcast information scripts. It additionally supplies suggestion on delivering concise on-line fabric for broadcasters’ web content. Sections contain: • Practical suggestion on find out how to write correctly yet conversationally• How to deal with a dynamic English language, with new expressions and phrases altering their meanings• Writing scripts that fit the television images, and use actual sound on radio• Detailed counsel on right terminology and the necessity for delicate language • An appendix of ‘dangerous’ phrases and words to be shunned in scripts. Written in a full of life and available sort by way of a former BBC information editor, Writing for Broadcast reporters is a useful consultant to the ideas of writing information for tv, radio and on-line audiences.

By Alexander Anievas

ISBN-10: 0415478030

ISBN-13: 9780415478038

This publication brings jointly internationally-distinguished students from heritage, Philosophy, improvement reports, Geography, and diplomacy (IR) to check fresh advancements in Marxist methods to global politics.

Offering unique and stimulating analyses of matters usually on the vanguard of Marxist reports of worldwide politics, the gathering additionally considers concerns that have but to be absolutely explored inside of a few disciplines. studying a wide range of themes starting from the imperialism-globalization debate, the connections among social constructions and international kinfolk, the function of id and imperialist norms in international politics, to the connection among Marxist and Realist IR conception, the participants search to additional theoretical discussions and their implications for emancipatory radical politics. those contributions are established round significant themes:

• the connection among capitalist modernity and the states-system in explaining the altering styles of inter-state clash and cooperation;

• The debates inside Marxist and IR discourses at the theoretical importance of ‘the international’, overlaying themes together with asymmetric and mixed improvement and passive revolution.

An notable assortment that seeks to increase discussion and study, Marxism and international Politics should be of curiosity to scholars and students of IR, foreign Political economic climate, Political technology, and old Sociology.

By Anna Politkovskaya

ISBN-10: 0099526689

ISBN-13: 9780099526681

Sooner than her homicide in 2006, Anna Politkovskaya gained overseas status for her reporting. not anything however the fact is a suite of her top writing.

Beginning with a quick advent through the writer approximately her pariah prestige, not anything however the fact comprises fabric which characterizes the self-effacing Politkovskaya extra totally than she allowed in her different books. the gathering during this e-book offers a fantastic evaluation of her hugely specialist reportage, and also will stand as a tribute to her matter-of-fact own braveness, disclosing info Anna glosses over, or passed over thoroughly, in regards to the risks she confronted and the threats she acquired during her work.

Elsewhere, there are illuminating money owed of interviews and encounters with Western leaders together with Lionel Jospin, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and such exiled figures as Boris Berezovsky, Akhmed Zakaev and Vladimir Bukovsky. extra sections comprise her non-political writing, revealing her pleasant character, in addition to detailing foreign reactions to her murder.

Nothing however the fact serves as a wide-ranging and lasting selection of writing by means of essentially the most impressive and brave studies of our period.