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[2024]
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English
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In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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"Drawing on new and extensive research, including never-before-published correspondence and interviews with Maggie's colleagues, lovers, and soldiers and generals who knew her in the field, journalist and historian Jennet Conant restores Maggie's rightfulplace in history as a woman who paved the way for the next generation of journalists, and one of the greatest war correspondents of her time"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Essays on American literary journalists whose writings appeared from 1945 to 1995. During this period, literary journalists and novelists-turned-journalists produced nonfiction writing of enduring aesthetic, cultural and political significance, reshaping the contours of contemporary American letters. These journalists achieved a notoriety and status in literature, winning major journalism and literary prizes.
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English
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"A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women. At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She’d settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaws of the world, had landed in a promising...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Covers the transitional period when journalism was changing from the personalized journalism of the nineteenth century to the corporate journalism of today - a time when the existence of one newspaper publishing firm in each city was becoming the rule rather than the exception and in which surviving newspapers were increasingly being run as business enterprises by professional managers rather than as vehicles for the expression of the beliefs of individual...
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Presents the lives and careers of journalists representing American newspaper journalism during the three decade period when the United States was rapidly moving from an agrarian to an industrial society - a movement which brought demands for social, political, and economic reforms.
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Highlights major changes in American journalism such as the beginning of interpretative reporting, the invention of the political column, the expanded coverage of government (in light of the stock market crash), also the rise of sports and entertainment (gossip) columnists.
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Concentrates on American newspaper developments and the role these newspapers continue to play in the nation's communication spectrum. Deals with those individuals who have published major newspapers with regional and national reputations and have put together newspaper chains, multimedia corporations, and media conglomerates.
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Includes essays on American editors and publishers of periodicals having substantial literary content. Provides information on how these early editors and publishers were hampered by distribution problems, in that the raw materials of publishing had to be imported at considerable cost, and the limited amount of advertising in the issues. Provides information on the major publishing centers in eighteenth-century America.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"I've been a cheerleader. A corporate executive. A Barbie Doll. A sportscaster. A soap opera vixen. A sideline reporter. A Playboy cover model. A Diamond Diva. A red-carpet correspondent. An investigative journalist. A disrupter. I made Dennis Rodman cry. I've interviewed three presidents and a naked Shaquille O'Neal. I costarred in a viral video that has one billion views. I sued the New England Patriots--and won. I tracked down a murderer. I was...
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Contains the stories of the great pioneers who created the American press and nurtured it from a position of complete subjection to authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the political and economic independence of the "penny press," which catered to the newly enfranchised working class of the nineteenth century.
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