Press & Journalism

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK's...

This volume addresses the role played by translation in international political communication and news reporting and brings to light the usually in...

Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world...

For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of magazine journalism. In Mag Men, Bernard and Glaser rec...

Book of the Week: The IdlerIt Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezards rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bit...

A brisk and highly readable account of the author's adventures in journalism, spanning more than half a century. Richard McNeill grew up in South A...

Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the ...

The first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical cultureIn the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leadin...

Australias official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australias first official war historian and the driving force behind the cr...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfle...

In this eclectic and delightful mix of memoir, biography, and history, veteran journalist and broadcaster Eric Beardsley gives a candid account of ...

Over the past decade, American outlets such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and the Washington Post's Fact Checker have shaken up the political world...

In this sweeping, incisive post mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mor...

This interesting study of the early American press and President Adams first discusses the fourth estate's treatment of President Washington. The n...

This history of radio news reporting recounts and assesses the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed since the 1920s. It identi...