Media, Information & Communication Industries

Ten years after the publication of The Business of Books, his groundbreaking critique of conglomeration in the book industry, André Schiffrin turns...

Author's note: this book was updated in September 2011 to cover the issue of formatting books into ebook editions and distributing them to major e-...

From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that bef...

New Zealand has a long and rich tradition of journalism that holds power to account, and that goes beyond allegation and denial to reveal hidden tr...

While much of the US media and the professional political classes whip themselves into a frenzy as to how President Trump got into office and how h...

How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship.  But, how informative are the news medi...

'The greatest book ever written on British independent music' Guardian'One of the best British music books of the last ten years' MojoFounded by Al...

'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had p...

An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Ke...

'What a woman and what a book!' Elizabeth Day'Fabulous!' Zoe Ball'Sporty Spice telling it like it is.' Independent'Incredibly profound, vulnerable ...

Gareth L. Powell would be the first to tell you that he doesn't know everything about being a writer, or about getting published, or about life whe...

'An adventurer, an entrepreneur, a buccaneer, a visionary' - BONOAs the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discov...