Publishing industry and journalism

How Newspapers Work is a detailed account of how newspapers work, with emphasis on the mechanics of news gathering and tasks of the reporter, sub-editor, news specialists, and editor.

The story of the development of Taylor and Francis in this text is more than an isolated account of one small company - it throws light on the whole process of scientific communication during the last 200 years.

First published in 1880, this volume contains a comprehensive and accessible guide to bookbinding.

Percival Phillips was born in 1877.

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive.

Journalists have often put themselves in danger to convey crucial information to the public.

What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century?

For aspiring journalists, the challenges of dyslexia can seem insurmountable, especially in the face of an educational system that is ill-equipped to help.

These new essays tell the stories of daring reporters, male and female, sent out by their publishers not to capture the news but to make the news--indeed to achieve star billing--and to capitalize on the Gilded Age public's craze for real-life adventures into the exotic and unknown.

In the 1920s, newspapers and real estate developers colluded in a scheme to sell tiny vacation lots to subscribers.

The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.

John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade.

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hundreds of thousands of readers each week.

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press.

The debate surrounding "e;fake news"e; versus "e;real"e; news is nothing new.

This work examines both predominately black newspapers in general and four in particular--the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate--and their coverage of national events.

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed.

The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907-1987) was a member of CBS' esteemed Murrow Boys.

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses.

Aren't we all TV critics?

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society.

Nine of the 192 Union military hospitals during the Civil War circulated newspapers edited and printed by convalescents.

Analyzing the relationship between medicine and the media from different perspectives, these new essays fill a gap in this emerging field, providing new information on approaches to health communication and important reevaluations of health literacy theories.

For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement.

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media.

What will happen to the theater when there are no more critics?

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"e;an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"e;--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles.

One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day, Walt Kelly's Pogo took on Joe McCarthy before the controversial senator was a blip on Edward R.

Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie.

This series of absorbing case studies focuses on the portrayal of Pakistani women in the global media.

William Terry Couch (1901-1988) began his four-decade publishing career building the University of North Carolina Press into one of the nation's leading university presses.

In 1873 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first advanced the idea that there might be electromagnetic waves that were similar to light waves, a startling concept to the scientists of his day.

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

When the members of the first baseball players' union formed their own league in open revolt against the reserve clause and other restrictive practices of the National League, baseball journalism became less of a "e;curiosity shop"e; phenomenon and moved into the mainstream.

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim.

The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text.

This book looks at the movement of urban American blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to redefine itself.

In 1923, William Lewis Judy purchased Dog World magazine for just over $1,000.

This is the first biography of journalist Robert Pierpoint, a contemporary of Edward R.

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer.

Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten.

This book makes a contribution to the debates on diasporic identities and transnational communication.

How much are today's youth actually influenced by violence in the media?

The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed.

This book is the first to place the contemporary debate over media bias in historical context, illustrating how partisan bias in the American media has built political parties, set the stage for several wars, and even contributed to the rise and fall of U.

Through most of the 20th century, the distinction between the fictional narrative film and the documentary was vigorously maintained.

In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his small Arabian/Persian Gulf state.

Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, probing newsreel cameramen, and a host of others--all can be found in this reference work to Hollywood's version of journalism: from the early one-reelers to modern fare, over a thousand silent and sound films can be found.

For fifty years, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters.

Daniel Coston's career in photography began accidentally.