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News and Numbers : A Guide to Reporting Statistical Claims and Controversies in Health and Other Fields
Victor Cohn
Paperback - $78.95
News and Numbers gives reporters the information they need to understand, analyse and explain statistics in health science and related areas. It enables the reporter to judge the probable truth of an event; weigh and question claims; and read or judg ...
The Rise of Western Journalism, 1815-1914 : Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States
Ross F. Collins
Paperback - $75.95
This work focuses on the principal trends and chief personnel essential to journalistic development in each country, and incorporates analysis of how each countrys journalists influenced, or were influenced by, journalists from outside its borders.
The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence : Media Performance and Public Transformation
Simon Cottle
Hardcover - $164.95
There have been many racially motivated murders in Britain in recent years that have received little media attention or public expressions of concern. The 1993 murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence, a black student, proved to be very different. Thro ...
The First Texas News Barons
Patrick Cox
Paperback - $49.95
Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the ...
Journalism Across Cultures
Fritz Cropp
Hardcover - $86.95
- Provides an overview of academic research into the coverage of minorities and a report on an innovative approach to improved coverage through the collaboration of journalists and researchers.- Explores the news coverage of women, using this example ...
Tainted Truth : The Manipulation of Fact in America
Cynthia Crossen
Paperback - $29.95
One of Business Week's top books, this work examines how the distortion of information by the media, politicians, academics, and business curtails the public's access to the truth. Crossen shows how the desire for profits, for influence, or for incre ...
Journalism & Popular Culture
P. Dahlgren
Paperback - $76.95
Is the distinction between "serious" and "popular" press valid? How do TV news and newspapers function within popular culture? What is (and what is not) good journalism? Contending that journalism is indeed a part of, rather than separated from, popu ...
Investigative Journalism : Context and Practice
Hugo De Burgh
Hardcover - $264.95
i Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice /i explores the history, theory and practice of investigative journalism around the world. Starting with a history of investigative journalism and examining key events such as Watergate in the U.S. and ...