This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resistance, which at the end created the South's own journalism grammars.
English Catholic Books During the Reign of Philip II
Examines how English Catholic exiles in Spain used print and other written media to promote the conquest of England and the spiritual renewal of Christendom.
This book examines the Black and mainstream press's digital interpretations of the Tea Party during President Barack Obama's first term. It addresses questions surrounding the idea of our society as one that is "postracial" and the ongoing struggle of Black people to have their voices heard in the mainstream press.
This revelatory and often startling book is the most unusual insider-story about book publishing ever issued. / It pivots on the enormous changes in publishing, its culture and politics over four tumultuous decades since the 1970s. / The book does so in providing a detailed blow-by-blow account of the author's struggles over the eventual ......
This book examines the journalism of editor and publisher Lucile H. Bluford. Focusing on selections from her writing in the Kansas City Call from 1968 to 1983, it explores how she articulated a Black feminist standpoint and exposed injustices faced by African Americans and women that were otherwise ignored by mainstream media.
Hefner, the Playboy of the Western World, was a visionary publisher, an empire-builder, an avatar of pleasure, and a pajama-clad pipe-smoker with a pre-coital grin. In 1953, he published his first edition of Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and her nude calendar inside. He obtained the rights for $500 with money borrowed from his ......
This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour.The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.
'Prince of Puffers': The Life and Works of the Publisher Henry Colburn.
This is the first-ever book length study of one of the most important and constantly innovative 19th century book and periodical publishers. The mysterious and often elusive but enormously influential Henry Colburn (c.1784 - 16 August 1855) was the pre-eminent publisher of 'silver-fork' novels, and of many influential new writers.
American Cheap 'Libraries', 'Railway' Libraries, and Some Literary Serie
This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field.
