Press & Journalism

For 30 years, celebrated sports journalist Bob Hammel has reported on a variety of games and athletesthe Olympics, Pan American Games, 23 NCAA Fina...

Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflictand news coverage itself is always a subject of debate. But ra...

Tony Wilson was the TV reporter turned would-be music mogul whose life was more rock'n'roll than the bands he nurtured. He co-founded Factory Recor...

Former editor of The Times, the late William Rees-Mogg was a pivotal figure of post-war Britain. Here he recounts the remarkable story of his life....

The Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their 30s, whose friendship was forged during the Se...

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in t...

History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 1...

From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled man...

A must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times Insight team is famous for its investigative journal...

Precise and lucid in its treatment of practical detail, McNae''s Essential Law for Journalists is the unrivalled handbook for professionals and stu...

A poignant and very personal childhood memoir of growing up in Cumbria during the Second World War and into the 1950s, from columnist Hunter Davies...

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* * * * *It always starts with a small lie. That''s how you stop noticing the bigger...

Journalism has the vital function to defend and promote truth in public discourse. And yet, at a time when seeking and finding the truth is at a pr...

Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (18361932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. The lurid penny presses of the industrial East had been mixing...

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II...

'One of the best music books ever written, because Michael Odell knowsmusic isn't about the musicians - it's about what it does to the listener, ev...

It is now two centuries since a newspaper conceived the idea of sending a reporter overseas to observe, gather information and write about war. Wit...

Ring Lardners influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. ...

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls ...

Journalists are commonly denounced from all sides a shameful, deceitful trade, a profession sold out to the powerful which gives a biased and misl...

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had enough of sex and death. The lurid penny presses of the industrial East had been mixing a p...

In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless use...

What can century-old advice columns tell us about the Internet today? This book reveals the little-known history of advice columns in American news...

The true and extraordinary story of the satirical newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of the Somme, interspersed with comic sketches and spoofs...