Competing Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Ecosystem
This book explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting and its effects on the growth of criminal justice reform advocacy in the United States. Sherrill argues that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations with multiple goals, including entertainment, criminal justice reform advocacy, and journalistic inquiry.
The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted Carroll
This book is a celebration of legendary African American sports writer and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll, whose career spanned one of the most exciting periods of boxing's past, from Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali. His experiences and commentary are of great historical significance, encompassing issues of race, sport, culture, and society.
In this book, H. Sidky examines how a cadre of American academics influenced by French postmodern philosophy during the 1980's and 1990's informed and empowered the assault on science and truth by corporate organizations, post-truth politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists in the present post-truth era.
This current and comprehensive overview of global media developments discusses key concepts like freedom, journalism ethics and education, news cultures, and international news flow. With timely case studies, the book offers a foundation for today's journalism students learning about the practice, growth, and impact of global journalism. .
Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics
How one race spanned the globe and changed history
The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past ......
A nuts-and-bolts guide to the craft of visual storytelling, written for students and up-and-coming journalists by one of the country's best-loved news correspondents.
A new political economy of digital capitalismFor decades society venerated advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift. The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook such ideas. Originating in the United States, the driver of digital systems and services, the prolonged economic slump ......
Looks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources.
A searing study of the intersection of journalism, fiction, and traumatic violenceTo attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters ......
