Tracing the history of the news from preliterate cultures to the contemporary information explosion, this book examines news in its various manifestations - spoken, written, and visual.

And he argues that these works--an emerging computer-edited and -distributed "new video"--have the potential to inspire transformations in thought on a level with those inspired by the products of writing and print.

This book features an original, sometimes critical examination of contemporary journalism, both on- and offline, and it finds inspiration for a more ambitious and effective understanding of journalism in examples from twenty-first-century ...

On news broadcasting

This basic text addresses issues in contemporary American journalism from an extended historical perspective and also includes material on the development of news in other societies.

This basic text addresses issues in contemporary American journalism from an extended historical perspective and also includes material on the development of news in other societies.

The book has three goals: to teach clear, concise and accurate writing; to teach students how to find reliable information about newsworthy events and issues and how to set this information within an understandable and meaningful context; ...

Writing and Reporting the News, Second Edition, by Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens provides thorough instructions on writing and reporting and extensive opportunities to apply those instructions.

Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie.

Then he assigned himself to report on World War I and returned with an exclusive: the story of “Lawrence of Arabia.” In 1930, Lowell Thomas began delivering America’s initial radio newscast.