Journalistik

Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public’s obsession with celebrity–and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, Am …

Los Angeles is as much concept as city, set in a desert that flows to the sea; that ends in the sand where an ocean begins whose horizon recedes in the sunset; a city where émigrés and the children o …

In a time of reckoning, this year’s National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize–winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein’s depred …

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK POST ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing t …

The teacher of Classroom 15, known fondly as Mr. Mc Fetridge, assigned a pen pal project in an effort to take geography lessons outside of the classroom. Imagining a place as far from Oregon as they …

Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth—if you aim for the heart with the copy you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your vie …

In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral prin …

’Indispensable…. for anyone who cares about journalism.’ – Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen How can we understand the complex relationship between journalism and emotion? In a world of live-stre …

Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie’s mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune’s popular voice and use of local color, …

A rare and indicting account by a former CBC and Al Jazeera newsroom insider of how the news skews our perceptions and disorients society. ’Fake news’ has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a worldw …