Harris, Duchess
Summary: "The news media and its role in society are topics of conversation and debate in today's world. News Literacy looks inside newsrooms, exploring key moments in the history of journalism and explaining how today's journalists work. Examine how news is presented, and learn how advertising, online algorithms, and other modern trends affect the way we experience news. Investigate the phenomenon of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J301.16 HARSummary: Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box craft. These unforgettable dispatches from World Series, Super Bowls, and title bouts for the ages were written on deadline with passion, spontaneity, humor, and a gift for the memorable phrase. Read avidly day in and day out by a sports-mad public, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.0973 GRERindsberg, Ashley
Summary: As flagship of the American news media, the New York Times is the world's most powerful news outlet. With thousands of reporters covering events from all corners of the globe, the Times has the power to influence wars, foment revolution, shape economies and change the very nature of our culture. It doesn't just cover the news: it creates it. But the institution that is the New York Times is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Oil Publishers LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 RINFinneman, Teri Ann
Summary: "Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News demonstrates that a new financial approach to community journalism is urgently needed and viable. This book provides historical context for the state of local news, examines the influence of journalistic identity and boundaries that have prevented change, and offers practical guidance on how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 FINSummary: "Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago's Black press-from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets-was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson's anti-racist time travel adventure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 IT'SMilner, Anita Cheek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 1977
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 016.0713 MILBurns, Eric.
Contents: I: The role of authority -- The end of the beginning -- Publishing by authority -- Defying authority -- The sounds of silence dogood -- Science, sex, and super crown soap -- The end of authority -- II: The approach of war -- Severing the snake -- "The Weekly dung barge" -- The Tory dung barge -- The shot spread 'cross the page -- Uncommon prose -- A sword of a different kind -- III: The tumult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071.309 BURMilner, Anita Cheek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 1977
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 016.0713 MILMilner, Anita Cheek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 1977
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 016.0713 MILNagourney, Adam
Summary: "A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 NAGAvella, Steven M.
Summary: Charles K. McClatchy was twenty-five when he inherited The Sacramento Bee from his father, and his ensuing career as the paper’s editor extended well beyond the newsroom. Until his death in 1936, McClatchy was a consistent advocate for Progressive politics, a crusader for urban reform, a staunch isolationist, and a voice for Northern California. This biography explores his career as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCLATCHY AVENúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003