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Front desk volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The New York Times bestselling Front Desk series continues! Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She’s spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco’s Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it’s the place to find a great story—one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco.
2) 44 Pages
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Highlights magazine following the creation of the cultural phenomenon's 70th anniversary issue, from the first editorial meeting to its arrival in homes, and introducing the people who passionately produce the monthly publication for "the world's most important people,"...children. Along the way, a rich and tragic history is revealed, the state of childhood, technology, and education is explored, and the future of print media is questioned....
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"An experienced magazine editor and writing instructor shows aspiring writers of nonfiction how to get published. Topics include generating ideas, finding a personal voice, building a narrative, editing one's own work, and pitching editors. Includes real-life examples of successful essays and pitches, along with advice from acquiring editors"--
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the revolution in journalism sparked by the turbulence of the 1960s, this documentary tells the story of maverick editor Harold T.P. Hayes, who made Esquire magazine a galvanizing force in American culture. A leading architect of the 'New Journalism', Hayes granted unprecedented journalistic freedom to the most talented artists and writers of the time including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron, Peter Bogdanovich, Gore Vidal, Diane Arbus,...
7) The Hoy Boys
Publisher
The Film Sales Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twin brother photojournalists lead us back to a pre-digital era, when Americans read newspapers and facts mattered.
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English
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Get the Summary of Adam Nagourney's The Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Times" by Adam Nagourney chronicles the evolution of The New York Times through various executive editors' tenures, focusing on their leadership styles, the challenges they faced, and the newspaper's transformation in response to internal and external pressures. A.M. Rosenthal's era is marked by his commitment to journalistic standards...
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A collection of the very best in contemporary first-person journalism compiled by the award-winning former Washington Post reporter and author.
Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The Beholder's...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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Bringing together Taibbi's most incisive and hilarious work from his Road Work" column in Rolling Stone, Smells Like Dead Elephants shines an unflinching spotlight on the corruption, dishonesty, and sheer laziness of our leaders. Taibbi has plenty to say about George W. Bush, Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and all the rest, but he doesn't just hit inside the Beltway. He gets involved in the action, infiltrating Senator Conrad Burns's birthday party under...
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Español
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Una juez en zona guerrillera es el libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Cultura Universidad de Antioquia 2022 en la modalidad Testimonio. Según el jurado, "este es un testimonio que mantiene un hilo conductor y transporta bien al lector a escenarios en los que ocurren los hechos que vive su protagonista. Está narrado de una manera muy auténtica y pone al lector frente a una realidad que el país debe conocer".
A través de las memorias y la voz...
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"Complete freedom, nobody enjoys it: we start oppressed by syntax and end up dealing with the Police of Social and Political Order, but, within the narrow limits that grammar and law coerce us, we can still move". This quote of Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (in Memoirs of prison, 1953), also illustrates the present moment of Brazilian journalism. Among so many forms of censorship present in our days: the political and ideological (induced by the...
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No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don't get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal approach expected of major international publications. As the primary textbook and sourcebook for the teaching and practice of local journalism and newspaper publishing in the United States, Community Journalism...
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Draws a history of journalism's most respected tenet-objectivity
If American journalism were a religion, as it has been called, then its supreme deity would be "objectivity." The high priests of the profession worship the concept, while the iconoclasts of advocacy journalism, new journalism, and cyberjournalism consider objectivity a golden calf. Meanwhile, a groundswell of tabloids and talk shows and the increasing infringement of market concerns...
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Español
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Esta es una colección de columnas del autor Moisés Wasserman, publicadas en el periódico El Tiempo de Bogotá, entre finales del año 2017 y el 2022, agrupadas en cinco capítulos que llevarán al lector en un recorrido profundo, reflexivo y ameno por distintos
temas de interés general, como la ciencia, la política y la actualidad nacional.
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Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.
In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent...
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Español
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Este nuevo libro de la periodista y editora de género María Fitzgerald presenta a los lectores distintas crónicas periodísticas sobre temas de gran coyuntura y reflexión nacional, como lo son las mutilaciones oculares en el marco del Paro Nacional de 2021, la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en las grandes ciudades capitales, los estragos de la minería ilegal y las desapariciones extrajudiciales. Tomando como protagonistas a...
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Français
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Anglais intensif, immersion, bains linguistiques : que retenir de cette incessante discussion sur l'enseignement de l'anglais au Québec ? Décrit tantt comme la langue de lord Durham, langue qui opprime et menace, tantt comme l'outil du xxie siècle ou de l'ouverture au monde, l'anglais fait débat.
Pour y voir clair, Virginie Hébert remonte le fil des discours tenus sur l'enseignement de l'anglais au Québec depuis plus d'un siècle. Dépouillant...
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Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived.
Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their...
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