Journalism: Books

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Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research.

The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and distilling – placing particular emphasis on the formulation of research questions and the choice of appropriate 'logics of inquiry' to answer them. The requirements for research designs and proposals are laid out at the beginning of the book, followed by a discussion of key design issues and research ethics.

Introduction -- Journalism as a Practice -- A Political Economy of Online Journalism -- Digitally Challenged Business Models -- Truth Trust Transparency -- Public Service News -- Local Digital Journalism -- News Customization -- Mobile Journalism -- From Desktop to Pocket -- Media Law and the Challenges of the Internet -- Afterward -- The End of News?

Journalism.
Mass media.
Press.

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc of history-talking to a former ticket-taker at the gates of the Birkenau concentration camp or noting the neat rows of tiny shoes in the abandoned nursery school in the shadow of Chernobyl.

Introduction -- Studies of journalism: the beginnings -- Education and training: between a hack and a hard place -- Journalism studies and research approaches -- Debates on the processes of journalism -- Products -- Journalism across borders: imperial, international, global -- Journalism studies: engagements with technology and industrial change.

Introduction: what we should know -- The development of journalism. Discovering the news / Michael Schudson -- A place in the news / Kay Mills -- Technology and ideology: the case of the telegraph / James W. Carey --

Magazines : a historical survey -- The political economy of magazines -- The magazine workforce -- Skills and policy developments -- Contemporary practices -- The international perspecive -- Theorising the field -- Future directions -- Appendix.

For journalism students and professionals alike, countless designers have used this book to learn how to design and improve their skills as visual communicators. Harrower’s unique voice and quirky sense of humor are still very much alive in the seventh edition.

Context, culture and cognition: making the case for reflective practice in journalism -- Habits of thought: how cognitive processes influence journalistic practice -- Encountering the news: how the mind organizes and interprets information and how story ideas get lost in the process -- Story without stereotype: how stereotypes may influence reporting in stealthy ways and what to do about it --

Introduction -- Theories of "race" and racism in sport and the media -- A level playing field? diversity and sports journalism -- Athletics: the fastest "race" -- Boxing: "race" on the ropes -- Cricket: fair play in reporting the imperial game? -- Football: the excluded Asian representation -- F1 racing: non-whites in the "world’s whitest sport" -- Conclusion.

Journalism.
Mass media.

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’ by an historical traveller who published an account of the same place.

Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing's queasy colonial connections?

"The solo videojournalist must find a riveting story; gain access to charismatic characters who can tell their own tales; shoot candid clips; expertly interview the players; record clear, clean sound; write a script with pizzazz; and, finally, edit the material into a piece worthy of five minutes of a viewer’s attention. Videojournalism addresses all of these challenges and more. [...]

Journalism -- South Africa -- Authorship.
Journalism -- South Africa -- Style manuals.

"The Changing Faces of Journalism: Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness" brings together an array of top scholars who consider how contemporary journalism has wrestled with its changing parameters and who address how notions of tabloidization, technology and truthiness have altered our understanding of journalism.

This excellent book covers editing in the digital age, demonstrating the tools needed for effective text editing. Learn how to write powerful headlines and captions, and how to edit body text quickly and cleanly. It also concentrates on design in the digital environment, introducing typography and the related issues of readability and legibility.

Anyone studying journalism, or training for the industry, will benefit from the broad scope of information and guidance packed into this textbook. Those already employed in journalism or related areas will also find it useful as a reference book.

"Investigative Journalism" provides an unrivalled introduction to this vital part of our social life: its origins, the men and women who established its norms and its achievements in the last decades.

Journalism Studies is a polemical textbook that rethinks the field of journalism studies for the contemporary era. It is the politics, philosophy and economics of journalism, presented as a logical reconstruction of its historical development. This book offers a critical reassessment of conventional themes in the academic analysis of journalism, and sets out a positive proposal for what we should be studying.

Key Concepts in Journalism offers: - a systematic and accessible introduction to the terms, processes and effects of journalism - a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues - further reading suggestions The authors bring an enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise.

This book offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and audience engagement strategies. Drawing on empirical evidence from news organisations in sub-Saharan Africa, Participatory Journalism in Africa investigates and maps out professional practices emerging with journalists' direct interactions with readers and sources via online user comment spaces and social media platforms.

Brings critical and intellectual attention to the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future

Since 2005, Israel has deepened the isolation of the territory, severing it almost completely from its most vital connections to the West Bank, Israel and beyond, and has deliberately shattered its economy, transforming Palestinians from a people with political rights into a humanitarian problem. Sara Roy unpacks this process, looking at US foreign policy towards the Palestinians, as well as analysing the trajectory of Israeli policy toward Gaza, which became a series of punitive approaches meant not only to contain the Hamas regime but weaken Gazan society.