books about: reporters     books:       Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster ...109 reviews Michael Yon Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 Mike gets it right Having worked with Michael firsthand over in Iraq as he was on the ground and reporting from one of the real hotspots in Southern Baghdad, I can tell you that he gets it right in this book. It is an honest portrayal of the war as I knew it in 2007 as a member of one of the surge brigades. If you want what is the closest account of the ground truth over there, this book delivers. Yon spent more ...             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 ...             Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing Melvin Mencher McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007 More than a quarter of a million students have learned the craft and ethics of journalism from Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing . This classic text shows students the fundamentals of reporting and writing and examines the values that direct and underline the practice of journalism. The new edition features current developments in all areas of reporting, discusses the use of stark photos, provides dozens of new Internet sources and ...             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 ...             The Poet266 reviews Michael Connelly Vision, 1997 Adrenaline-soaked thrill-ride Jack McEvoy is a reporter who works the crime beat. His twin brother, Sean, is a homicide cop. When Sean is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound, with an Edgar Allen Poe quote written on the window where it was fogged up, Jack cannot accept that it was, indeed, suicide. He does his research and discovers an unsettling string of homicide detective "suicides" - each had an ...             Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University8 reviews Plume, 2007 Best New Writing Book of the Year Every writing teacher needs this book. One of the best I've found. Already teaching from it. Plus, The Nieman Foundation Website offers more useful writing & teaching tools than most fee-based services. Should be required reading for all creative nonfiction and journalism undergrad and grad students.             News Reporting and Writing5 reviews Missouri Group, Brian S. Brooks, ... Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007 Can't Beat It While I can't actually comment on the current edition, I'd like to say that this is the same book I used 18 years ago in college and it was excellent. I still have my copy and refer to it occasionally when I'm covering an area that I don't handle often. The authors are from the University of Missouri School of Journalism, one of the top journalism schools in the country because most of the ...             Reporting for the Media6 reviews John R. Bender, Lucinda D. Davenport, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Lacks bling, but good resource for writers. This book was required for my journalism 200 class. Its many examples of excellent news writing, useful for journalists, could interest political science, marketing or creative writing majors or those with activist inclinations. Some of the featured writers also write fiction. The co-influence of the two genres are evident and that style is gaining popularity in new "info-tainment" venues. ...             Executive Warfare: 10 Rules of Engagement for Winning Your War for Success7 reviews David D'Alessandro McGraw-Hill, 2008 Informed, Practical, And About Half The Total Solution I would put this in my top five favorite books for management just behind Hubbard's How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business and Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. D'Alessandro has written a sort of The Art Of War for upper management. Everything I read in his book is something I can directly relate to my own experiences and probably ...             The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own24 reviews David Carr Simon & Schuster, 2008 Brutally honest, fantastically written David's brutally honest recall of those dark days stunned even his closest friends and family members. He was a very bad man that did some really bad things. However, his successful recovery and subsequent ability to share what it really felt like to be in those shoes, will most certainly, help any individuals, family members or friends that has or is living a life of addiction. Be prepared to ...             Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent9 reviews Larry Berman Collins, 2008 You Cannot Have it Both Ways I might not be as forgiving as some people, but I certainly would have felt betrayed by this man. He seeks to justify everything by stating that he felt the Americans did not belong in Vietnam. Maybe so. But what he did was so deceiful.To just look at the fact that he often helped those closest and known to him from suffering any harm, neglects the hundreds of thousands who died and were wounded ...             We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People30 reviews Dan Gillmor O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 A Journalist Passionately Embraces the Internet Many people blame the Internet for accelerating the long-term decline of newspaper circulation, and think that the Internet is crippling the future of American journalism. Don Gillmor believes that the Internet has the potential to dramatically improve American journalism and widen its appeal. Gillmor is no naive innocent. He demonstrates that he has an extraordinarily detailed command of ...             News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media Bruce D Itule, Douglas A Anderson McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 News Writing and Reporting takes students on the beat, into the press box, council chambers, and courthouse, and to a speech and press conference. It introduces them to current issues such as cultural sensitivity, multimedia journalism, and legal and ethical considerations that journalists face every day. Throughout the text, reporters and editors offer their down-to-earth advice, and, whenever possible, professional journalists covering actual ...             The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques Brant Houston, Len Bruzzese, ... Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002 An indispensable reference for students, journalists, and teachers — and endorsed by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) — The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook is the most comprehensive classroom text available for courses in investigative reporting.             Tropic of Orange5 reviews Karen Tei Yamashita Coffee House Press, 1997 Best Book About LA Ever Brilliant and beautiful! Definitely the best book about LA in the last ten years. Not your typical wannabe Hollywood drama or wild drug haze. This is the real Los Angeles. The structure is unlike anything I have ever seen in a book before. You can read it straight through, or follow the Hypertext and follow each of the seven characters through their own experience. The plot is simply ...             Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition Ted White Focal Press, 2005 Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast journalism. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, the text presents up-to-date examples and issues through actual scripts and interviews with the people who bring us the news. The book emphasizes real-life situations, and examines the problems that reporters, writers, assignment ...             Moleskine Watercolor Notebook Large4 reviews Moleskine Moleskine, 2008 wonderful As a former art teacher I highly recommend this notebook to anyone who takes the tools seriously. I got this notebook recently as a gift and don't know why in the world I've not run across this til now. I gave the paper a good workout and scrubbing with watercolor pencils, and it held up very well and warpage from water was minimal (is not a problem though because the hard cover irons it out). I ...             The Reporter's Notebook : Writing Tools for Student Journalists13 reviews Mark Levin Mind Stretch, 2000 Helpful Tool for Journalism Club This book has proven to be a practical guide for our journalism club. The story ideas are helpful as are the forms for keeping track of assignments, the interviewing checklist, and the editing checklist. Journalism resources are included as are names of organizations that can provide more information about student journalism and writing. I recommend this book to anyone working with young ...             Peeled7 reviews Joan Bauer Putnam Juvenile, 2008 Crisp and juicy! There is nothing more that sixteen-year-old Banesville High School junior, Hildy Biddle, wants, than to be a serious, hard-hitting journalist. Someone who breaks the big news before anyone else. Interviews countless people on a quest for an unsuspected scoop. But, as much as Hildy loves her hometown of Banesville, New York, the little apple harvesting town can't exactly be called a hotspot for ...             Moleskine Large Notebook Sketch13 reviews 8883701151 CHRONICLE BOOKS @, 0000 Great handy sized sketchbook! I use this great little book as sort of a philosopher's stone, write, use watercolor crayon, India ink, pencil, pen, whatever I have handy. The thicker paper fits what I need in a field journal. If the paper is wet first and allowed to soak, the paint goes on and stays. it does dull, but I'm not selling the precious pages of my journal, I hope my kids can sell them after I'm gone to support ...              search for books american, broadcast, communication, communist, databases, documents, engagement, executive, foundation, generation, grassroots, handbook, incredible, investigates, investigative, journalism, journalists, magazine, moleskine, nonfiction, notebook, practical, producing, reporting, soldiers, techniques, university, vietnamese, wadsworth, watercolor books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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