Journalism (JOUR): Books to Borrow & E-books

This book raises the consciousness of journalists who strive to be accurate. Based on studies, news reports and style guides, as well as interviews with more than 50 journalists and experts, it offers the best, most up-to-date advice on writing about underrepresented and often misrepresented groups.

This book offers a critical and practical guide for journalists reporting on issues affecting the Latinx community. The text emphasizes skills and best practices for covering topics such as economics, immigration, and gender. The authors share honest stories about challenges Latino/a/x journalists face in newsrooms, including imposter syndrome and lack of representation in news, along with strategies to face and tackle systematic barriers. Stories from leaders in the media industry are also featured, including journalists and media professionals from ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, Alt.Latino at National Public Radio (NPR), and mitú. Additionally highlighted are experimental and non-traditional new initiatives and outlets leading the future of news media for Latino/a/x audiences. This guide is invaluable for any student or journalist interested or involved in the news media and questions of Latino/a/x representation.

America's news media are relentlessly criticized as too negative, sensationalistic, profit-oriented, and biased, not to mention unpatriotic and a miserable failure at reflecting the nation's diversity. Author Rodger Streitmatter makes clear that although much of the criticism is deserved, it obscures the fact that news outlets have also made -- and continue to make -- many positive contributions to the country's well-being. This book offers a compelling account of the Fourth Estate's efforts to improve U.S. society. Whether documenting the appalling conditions in mental institutions, exposing financial shenanigans and sex-abuse scandals, or championing an obscure pill as a form of contraception, Streitmatter argues that print and broadcast journalists have propelled significant social topics onto the public agenda and helped build support for change. This text draws on historical and contemporary examples from a wide range of social contexts; the result is a fascinating tour of American history, social change, and the benefits of a robust media

Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different from that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. They often wrote about war from the perspective of those left at home, struggling to keep the household afloat. And with "How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed" (1914) by Djuna Barnes, one of the world's very first experiential, or 'gonzo' journalists, came a new age of reporting. Since then, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it. Many of the pieces here feel almost unsettlingly relevant today: the conclusions Emma "Red" Goldman drew in her 1916 "The Social Aspects of Birth Control"; Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at 40; and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance after America's race riots in 1943. This collection of superlative writing brings together the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting, and entertaining pieces of journalism by the best women in the business.

Food blogs are everywhere today, but for generations, information and opinions about food were found in the food sections of newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s, these sections were housed in the women's pages of newspapers -- where women could hold an authoritative voice. The food editors -- often a mix of trained journalist and home economist -- reported on everything from nutrition news to features on the new chef in town. They wrote recipes and solicited ideas from readers. The sections reflected the trends of the time and the cooks of the community. The editors were local celebrities, judging cooking contests and getting calls at home about how to prepare a Thanksgiving turkey. They were consumer advocates and reporters for food safety and nutrition. They helped make James Beard and Julia Child household names, as the editors wrote about their television appearances and reviewed their cookbooks. These food editors laid the foundation for the food community that Nora Ephron described in her classic 1968 essay, "The Food Establishment," which eventually led to the food communities of today.

This is the first book to recognize that women have always played an important part in American electronic media. The emphasis is on social history, as author Donna Halper skillfully explains how the changing role of women in different eras influenced their participation in broadcasting. This is not just the story of radio stars or broadcast journalists, but a social history of women both on and off the air. Beginning in the early 1920s with the emergence of radio, the book chronicles the ambivalence toward women in broadcasting during the 1930s and 1940s, the gradual change in status of women in the 1950s and 1960s, the increased presence of women in broadcasting in the 1970s, and the successes of women in broadcasting in the 1980s and 1990s. The second edition is expanded to include the social and political changes that occurred in the 2000s, such as the growing number of women talk show hosts; changing attitudes about women in leadership roles in business; more visibility of minority women in media; and women in sports and women sports announcers. The author addresses the question of whether women are, in fact, no longer invisible in electronic media. She provides an assessment of where progress for women (in society as well as broadcasting) can be seen, and where progress appears totally stalled.

This book provides a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism's most valued work. From Margaret Fuller's improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-19th century, to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, author Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of both best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered major news stories -- and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War -- and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women's rights. The text discusses the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s, to the #MeToo movement and today's racial and gender disparities. "Undaunted" unveils the huge and singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.

In this volume, author Jan Whitt tells the stories of women who have been overlooked in journalism history, offering an important corrective to scholarship that narrowly focuses on the deeds of men like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. She shows how numerous women broadened the editorial scope of newspapers and journals, transformed women's professional roles, used journalism as a training ground for major literary works, and led breakthroughs in lesbian and alternative presses.

This illustrated historical biography celebrates the accomplishments of World War II's female war correspondents -- including Margaret Bourke-White, Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller, and Janet Flanner -- who risked their lives in combat zones to provide firsthand reports on the events of the war.

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This book sets out to change how we think about journalism and its ethics. The author contends that long-established ways of thinking, which have come down to us from the history of journalism, need radical reform, with alternate conceptions of the role of journalism and fresh principles to evaluate practice. Through a series of disruptions, the book undermines the traditional principles of journalistic neutrality and 'just the facts' reporting. It proposes an alternate philosophy of journalism as engagement for democracy. The aim is a journalism ethic better suited to an age of digital and global media. As a philosophical pragmatist, author Stephen J. A. Ward critiques traditional conceptions of accuracy, neutrality, detachment, and patriotism, evaluating their capacity to respond to ethical dilemmas for journalists in the 21st century. The book proposes a holistic mindset for approaching journalism ethics, a theory of journalism as advocacy for egalitarian democracy, and a global redefinition of basic journalistic norms.

This book provides a comprehensive set of ethical principles and methods of reasoning for a new era of digital, global media. It describes the turbulent state of media ethics in ordinary language and through clear examples, and provides a pragmatic theory of truth and objectivity for engaged media. Concrete guidelines are articulated for identifying fake news, and for reporting responsibly on social media racism, extreme groups, and anti-democratic demagogues, showing how citizens and journalists can work together to detoxify a polluted public sphere. The book examines global media ethics, where norms guide the reporting of global issues such as climate change and immigration, and considers what constitutes responsible journalism. It will be valuable for both students and practitioners of journalism and media ethics, and can also be used as a citizen's guide for evaluating media reports

This indispensable guide to visual ethics addresses the need for critical thinking and ethical behavior for anyone responsible for a variety of mass media visual messages. The text covers the definitions and uses of six philosophies, analytical methods, cultural awareness, visual reporting, documentary, citizen journalists, advertising, public relations, typography, graphic design, data visualizations, cartoons, motion pictures, television, computers and the Web, augmented and virtual reality, social media, the editing process, and the need for empathy. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect on the impact of new and emerging technologies.