Looks into the newsroom culture and its influences on photographic assignments, production and editing. This work addresses many issues supported by examples from the field and critical thinking about photography, journalism and newsroom culture. It examines social and cultural issues and how they are communicated through photojournalism.
When the world's biggest and most moving events took place - World War II, the Moon landing, the death of Princess Diana, and many more - Time magazine was there to tell the story. This book features pieces by Barbara Ehrenreich, Henry Anatole Grunwald, and Maureen Dowd, and provides readers with a view of 85 years of Time's history.
Offers a cultural history of media in the United States, shifting the lens of media history from media developments and evolution to a focus on changes in culture and society, emphasizing how media shaped and were shaped by these trends, policies, and cultural shifts.
A collection of some of the best columns that Alan Caruba has written about environmentalism, animal rights, energy issues, the education system, immigration policies, United Nations, Islamic Holy War and others.
From a near-abandoned hospital in Chechnya to bombed-out Tora Bora in Afghanistan, from Saddam Hussein's derelict palace in Baghdad to the inner-city barrios of Kingston, the author has covered almost every embattled place in the world and the people caught in its midst. The pieces collected begin with Algeria in 1998 and end with Iraq in 2005.
Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this book asks a key question: what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using Frances Power Cobbe as an example, the book helps us understand Victorian feminism and its political workings.
Blogging has profoundly influenced not only the nature of the internet, but also the nature of communication. This book-length study of this everyday phenomenon examines blogging while placing it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. It also discusses blogs such as political blogs, citizen journalism, and commercial blogs.