An in-depth exploration of how breaking news affects investor sentiments and trader decisions—and ultimately the stock market
Glued to their screens for news alerts, financial traders must quickly decipher which ones are most reliable in order to make effective trading decisions. Journalists know that the ......
The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It
Blending his experiences as a veteran reporter with trenchant analysis of the erosion of trust between the press and the government over the past 40 years, Free The Press gives readers a unique perspective on the challenges facing journalism as well as the rise of hostility between these institutions.
Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers
In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement. Few ......
With a new chapter on visual storytelling and expanded coverage of digital and social media platforms, the third edition of this bestselling text explains the principles and techniques required to become a successful - and valued - journalist.
Long awaited new edition of this hands-on guide to writing like a journalist. Full of examples, exercises and practical advice, it now covers online presentation and social media too.
What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters
In the 1960s and '70s a more personal, subjective, voice-driven journalism emerged, known as New Journalism. The God Beat brings together significant and characteristic samples of this emerging genre, helping us understand how we talk about God in public spaces--and why it matters--in a whole new way.
There is no journal with a livelier and richer history than The Spectator. As well as being the world's oldest current affairs magazine, none has been closer over the last two centuries to spheres of power and influence in Britain. First issued in 1828, during the dying days of the Georgian era, The Spectator came out ready to spar - with the ......
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 ......
Malaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overseas students in Australia. One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of Reformasi, a movement sparked by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad's 1998 firing of his deputy Anwar Ibrahim, there was no reason to think that Malaysiakini ......
