"Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient langua…
Using visual evidence
"Visual evidence encompasses a diverse range of media, from painting, cartoons and photography, to film, television and documentary. The central argument of this book is that visual evidence is a key to understanding both history and the present day and should not be relegated t…
"Reporting War examines the nature of contemporary war reporting in a range of locales, including Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East - especially Iraq - and southern Asia. The contributors, both practising and former journalists and leading academics, consider issues including…
"Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, technologies, and challenges of writing, reporting, and producing for broadcast journalism. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, this book contains writing samples from some of th…
"MediaWriting serves as a primer on writing for print, broadcast and public relations, outlining the nature of good writing and integrating professional skills and concepts. This well-written, easy-to-follow text helps aspiring news writers develop the skills and attitudes requi…
"Is America's racial and ethnic diversity reflected in its broadcasting? The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a maturing of ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of multiculturalism as a dominant field of discourse in legal, educational, and cul…
This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process was met by organized opposition and a general level of public antipathy that has been almost entirely overlooked by previous schol…
This text examines a critical point in US broadcasting in the late 1920s and early 1930s: the only period in which a strong opposition emerged to challenge network-dominated, advertising-supported media such as radio. Although the opposition failed to secure airwaves for non-pro…
Beschrijving van de betekenis van vrouwen die bij de radio en televisie werk(t)en vanaf de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw, en de wijze waarop deze media boodschappen verspreidden over sekserollen. Aandacht voor onder andere Bertha Brainard, Dorothy Thompson en Mary Margare…
"The early years of American broadcasting seem to be an exclusively white male preserve, but broadcast historian Donna Halper documents the countless contributions made by women in this field since its earliest days. This artful social history considers our culture's expectation…