books about: journalism     books:       Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism6 reviews Tim Harrower McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 Best journalism text ever I am both a veteran journalist and a veteran college journalism teacher and "Inside Reporting" is the best introductory book ever. Interesting, accurate, visually pleasing and fun to read, it is the new "gold standard" of books with which to teach news writing and reporting. I am adopting it as the required text for the fall semester, and I keep my own copy handy to remind me of what I should be ...             The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law21 reviews Norm Goldstein Basic Books, 2007 Helpful This was quite helpful while taking a journalism course. It takes a few minutes to understand the layout of the book to lookup things, but once you get it, it's easy. I think this book helped raise me a letter grade in my course. Anyone taking a journalism course with a strict professor or planning on entering journalism should get a copy. My textbook had a reference in it, but it was ...             The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and ...1 review Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel Three Rivers Press, 2007 An interesting and very important book I stumbled across this book and I am glad that I did. True journalism is an important part of America's heritage that is being challenged (and often simply ignored) by today's "media". The pace of changing technology today makes old fashioned journalism look obsolete to many, but it is actually more important than ever. How well journalism adapts to these changes will determine our country's ...             ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income28 reviews Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett Wiley, 2008 Detailed, Thorough and Realistic Guide to Making Money Blogging Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett have written a book that you should read if you're interested in blogging. "Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income" is based on Darren's (and his partner Chris') personal experience building blog businesses to make $100,000/year or more. Like Darren's popular Problogger blog, the book is casual, informative, supportive, and offers ...             The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood1 review Helene Cooper Simon & Schuster, 2008 Descent Into Madness For Liberia Helene Cooper has written a memoir of her privilege African childhood in Liberia before the slaughters of the civil war destroyed the country and her lifestyle. Descended from a family of strong women, she comically describes their mansion at Sugar Beach before the horrors of the soldiers. Written in a you are there style, she conveys all changes of coming to America as a nobody and remaking ...             The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own26 reviews David Carr Simon & Schuster, 2008 Superbly crafted and soul-shaking Oh, this book stripped the marrow from my bones. I am someone who has never even seen any drugs, but it still gripped me with an insider's harrowing sense of recognition. A very close family member of mine was a coke addict who also was rescued because of her ultimate love for her child. I have endured all the tribulations (too weak a word) that a family member can in watching the endless ...             Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life135 reviews Tim Russert Miramax, 2005 Wholesome Reading A personal story of the relationship between a father and his son. This story personifies what a father/son relationship should be. The values of the father handed down to the son serve to bring that son into manhood and establish his outlook on life, his ethics and moreover his treatment of this fellow man. An excellent book and a must read for every father/son relationship. Robert Allen, ...             Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream416 reviews Hunter S. Thompson Vintage, 1998 A classic I read this first in college, and then again recently. It's still just as funny and wonderful as ever.             Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life303 reviews Anne Lamott Anchor, 1995 Pep in your step! This is a put a pep-in-your-step writing book. It's really a book with instructions on having a WRITING life. I'm still in the thick of it but I've never laughed so hard or felt so motivated by a book to write.             Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers2 reviews Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006 Analysis of Pop Culture with Mostly Accessible Essays Signs of Life focuses on the way we are shaped by the media and advertising with nine chapters that cover "Consuming Passions," "The Signs of Advertising," "Video Dreams," "The Culture of American Film," "Culture and Contradiction in the U.S.A.," "Gender Codes," "Constructing Race," "Popular Spaces," and "American Icons." Many of the essayists, like David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Thomas Frank, ...             The Prince of Frogtown29 reviews Rick Bragg Knopf, 2008 Blue collar broken dreams If you have any "blue collar blood" in you, Rick Bragg's writing should appeal to you. In The Prince of Frogtown, he peers into the past of blue collar Americans, specifically mill workers and mountain people of the Appalachians. These are his relatives. Fighting, drinking and cussing are a way of life for them. This is a story of Rick's father, Charles, and the search for the reasons behind ...             Mass Media Law 2009/2010 Edition Don R Pember, Clay Calvert McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2008 This current and comprehensive market-leading textbook addresses the most relevant and important aspects of mass media law in the United States, stretching from the history and adoption of the First Amendment to the most recent judicial opinions, statutory enactments and regulatory controversies affecting speech across the print, broadcast, cable and Internet media. From the laws of libel and privacy to the regulation of advertising and ...             All over but the Shoutin'296 reviews Rick Bragg Vintage, 1998 Destined to be a Southern classic ... ! Destined to be a Southern classic, Bragg's "All Over But the Shoutin'" rings true. It is not only a well-written, journalist's memoir, but offers readers who aren't from the South an insightful look at why Southern men often act as they do. On the one hand the book is a rags-to-riches story about a poor white boy from the cotton fields of northeast Alabama who reads, works and writes his way ...             Blogging For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))6 reviews Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley For Dummies, 2008 Superb! Blogging For Dummies is a fabulous resource for bloggers, new and old. This book is full of great information, tips, ideas, suggestions and resources that any blogger can benefit from reading. Written by two Pros in the field of blogging, you can't go wrong if you're looking for a one-stop, desktop reference on the world of blogging. Highly recommended!             Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '7269 reviews Hunter S. Thompson Grand Central Publishing, 2006 I'm Fearful After Reading This... This book's setting is eerily similar to the current state of affairs going on in with the 2008 Presidential Election, with the Democrats picking themselves apart while the Republicans sit back and enjoy the show. Richard Nixon is shown as the abomination that he was and HST's writing is as animated and humorous as I have ever seen it. This book surpassed my expectations and was a surprisingly ...             The Rum Diary : A Novel129 reviews Hunter S. Thompson Simon & Schuster, 1999 Thompson Can't BE Beat! If there is one thing you can count on with HT..it is that he us ALWAYS off the wall...and to say that he is entertaining would be an understatement!             Mass Media Research: An Introduction (with InfoTrac®) (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)1 review Roger D. Wimmer, Joseph R. Dominick Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 Helpful and useful. Mainly focused on quantitative analysis, but portraits qualitative analysis as well. It might be used as a guide for any kind of research, not just mass media.             Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil487 reviews John Berendt Vintage, 1999 Great Read Just read the book - you can't help but enjoy the characters and the irony.             Writing & Reporting News: A Coaching Method (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)4 reviews Carole Rich Wadsworth Publishing, 2006 A Great Way to Teach Writing I started using this text in my beginning reporting and writing classes a year ago. It was a strange experience: My students actually loved a textbook! I think that because this text does a good job of getting over the touchy-feely parts of treating the writing and editing processes as coaching processes, and shows how it's actually done. My students were able to convert her perspectives ...             Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)113 reviews Hunter S. Thompson Modern Library, 1999 Hells Angels: a hard to find modern classic. A very high quality production run, hard-bound with illustrated dust jacket etc. of a very hard to find modern classic. Read Thompson as he was before he became a cartoon character like caricature. Succinct and insightful with the acerbic wit front and centre where it belongs. A cracking good read ! Excellent value too in this Modern Libraries edition. 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