Media & Communications

Journalism has the vital function to defend and promote truth in public discourse. And yet, at a time when seeking and finding the truth is at a premium, journalism has never been under so much pressure to move away from this critical role into more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473427733Author Sarah RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Am-InsiderPublisher Am-InsiderWeight(grams) 1148g

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full or part-time job out of writing are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974683Author Gerald PosnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

'A lively and well-researched history and critique' - Jonathan Steele, former Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Guardian Since its inception in Manchester in 1821 as a response to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, the Guardian has been a key institution...

What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239353Author Bill KovachFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Raised in a small town in Georgia with no money or connections, Pat Mitchell challenged expectations to become one of media's most admired leaders-the first woman president of PBS and CNN productions, an award-winning film and TV producer, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879424Author James B StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Rose Macaulay's 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants...

Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world. The eighth edition is substantially updated to illustrate the changes in rights in relation to new technologies and...

How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741800Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Vital reading for anyone who wants to create communications that cause people to act.' Matt Barlow, CEO, CAP When facing a red light, what can you say to turn it green? Hooking an audience? Sweating in a job interview? The results of what you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955985581Author Janet M StovallFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Publish Your PurposePublisher Publish Your PurposeWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet. Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century. Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh...

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the stories...

The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps...

“All aspiring authors know the value of a great literary agent, but few know how to get one. Lucinda Halpern has written the definitive guide to attracting an agent and laying the groundwork for a book well worth publishing.”— Adam Grant, #1 New York...

Founders of the phenomenally successful publishing company Lonely Planet, Tony and Maureen Wheeler have produced travel guides to just about every corner of the globe.Lonely Planet Publications was born in 1973 when the Wheelers self-published a quirky...

Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their town in segregated Louisiana, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband...

The music industry is one of the most dynamic and fascinating business sectors. Its business model has had to evolve and adapt to continually changing technologies that impact at every level from distribution to artist management. Its latest challenge...

Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research,...

This accessible guide through audience studies' histories outlines a contemporary Cultural Studies approach to audiences for the digital age. This book is not a survey of all existing audience research. Instead, its chapters survey parts of the field in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743267090Author James B. StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval: shifts such as declining print subscriptions and rising website visitor numbers are forcing assumptions and practices to be rethought from first principles. The internet is not simply allowing faster,...

News and journalism are in the midst of upheaval: shifts such as declining print subscriptions and rising website visitor numbers are forcing assumptions and practices to be rethought from first principles. The internet is not simply allowing faster,...

A timely and incisive exploration of disinformation and its impact in the Global South In Disinformation in the Global South, media and communications scholars Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales deliver a unique and geographically diverse...

Philip Meyer's work in precision journalism established a new and ongoing trend-the use by reporters of social science research techniques to increase the depth and accuracy of major stories. In this fully updated, fourth edition of the classic Precision...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786838834Author Gareth Evans JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061879Author Ben H. BagdikianFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their 30s, whose friendship was forged during the Second World War. They became so close that their colleagues dubbed them 'The Trio', sometimes out of...

• All authors desire to get their books into the hands of as many readers as possible. Though it is a publisher’s role to aid and assist authors in marketing and publicity for every book, the role of any publisher necessarily takes a back seat to your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955985598Author Janet M StovallFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Publish Your PurposePublisher Publish Your PurposeWeight(grams) 449g

The Outlook magazine was one of the few national journals that upheld the spirit of true journalism and challenged the dominant regime of its time. The articles in this selection serve to highlight a critical and tumultuous period in Pakistan's history. ...

Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened and revolted, yet at the same time fascinated, by stories of crime, assault, death, thievery, kidnapping,...

The untold history of an American catastrophe The ultrawealthy largely own and guide the newspaper system in the United States. Through entities like hedge funds and private equity firms, this investor class continues to dismantle the one institution...

The history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there.  London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicago gets her due. A city of enormous contemporary literary vitality, it also was the home of a profoundly...

It's a contraption that makes the lists of "Greatest Inventions Ever"; at the same time, it's accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people's food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business...

For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by "non-professionals." Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication through...