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What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

by Malcolm Gladwell

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair...

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

by John Steinbeck & Jackson Benson

More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam....

The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers

by James O'Shea

 The authoritative account of a catastrophic merger of media empires that symbolizes the crisis in American journalism and the challenges faced by the nation's newspapers in the digital age

War Torn

by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett & Jurate Kazickas

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories...

Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

by Michael J. Rosen

James Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring...

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues

by Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues includes the very best of Bill Moyers’s conversations from the celebrated weekly PBS broadcast Bill Moyers Journal, with luminaries ranging from The Wire creator...

Show Me the Money

by Chris Roush

Show Me the Money offers instruction, hands-on advice and examples for doing the job of a business journalist. With numerous examples of documents and stories in the text, it is an essential guide for students...

Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

by Simon Schama

The New York Times has hailed renowned historian and social commentator Simon Schama as a writer who "entwine[s] past and present into a meaningful, continuous whole." His deeply thoughtful and vastly knowledgeable...

Writing for Broadcast Journalists

by Rick Thompson

Writing for Broadcast Journalists provides an invaluable guide to the techniques of writing for radio, television and online news sources.

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age

by Scott Gant

As the internet continues to reshape almost all corners of our world, no institution has been more profoundly altered than the practice of journalism and distribution of information. In this provocative new...

Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House

by Eric Boehlert

Lapdogs is the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in their duty as watchdog for the public. In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals...

The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost F

by Gene Weingarten

GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM

Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns...

Watchdogs of Democracy?

by Helen Thomas

In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand...

Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House

by Helen Thomas

In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal presidential chronicle. Currently a columnist for Hearst...

The Black Panther

by David Hilliard

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging

by The editors of the Huffington Post & Arianna Huffington

The editors of The Huffington Post -- the most linked-to blog on the web -- offer an A-Z guide to all things blog, with information for everyone from the tech-challenged newbie looking to get a handle on this...

Winchell and Runyon: The True Untold Story

by Trustin Howard

This book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality...

Writing Feature Articles

by Brendan Hennessy

Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets.

Now in its fourth...

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing

by Frank Barnas

Jargon buster: convergent journalism:

?Media convergence is the most significant development in the news industry in the last century. The ability to interchange text, audio, and visual communication over the...

Interviewing: A Guide for Journalists and Writers

by Gail Sedorkin

A practical guide to all aspects of interviewing for print and broadcast journalists, and for writers.