Press & Journalism

An instant best-seller when originally published in 1994, this expanded and updated edition of The Rice Room tells of growing up with a double iden...

A collection of finalists of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Reporting, this book illustrates the revival of hard-hitting investigative rep...

No one is more responsible for Britain's current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007)....

The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism. Journalism Re-examined sets out an institutional theor...

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalisms leading contempor...

The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the las...

The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the god-term of journalism, the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense. In the las...

At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer menus by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine h...

During the American Civil War, several newspapers remained Confederate sympathizers despite their locations being occupied by Union troops. Examini...

At the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the Gazette de Leyde, edited by Jean Luzac from 1772 to 1798. A Fre...

This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and ...

Press photography is not just a career - it's a way of life - and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains...

Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural co...

This book examines the mass media systems of Egypt and Tunisia under the pre-uprising regimes, with a focus on the last decade of the Mubarak and B...

This is the first book that looks into the state and role of investigate journalism in the Arab world. It explores the vital role the media could p...

Charles Bean was Australia's greatest and most famous war correspondent. He is the man who told Australia about the horrors of Gallipoli and the We...

Using the cultural prism of race, this book critically examines the image of African Americans in media of the twenty-first century. Further, the a...

This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relati...

Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism prac...