Tag: News

Free Download Daniel Mark Vyleta, "Crime, Jews and News: Vienna 1890-1914"
English | ISBN: 1845451813 | 2006 | 266 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Crimes committed by Jews, especially ritual murders, have long been favorite targets in the antisemitic press. This book investigates popular and scientific conceptualizations of criminals current in Austria and Germany at the turn of the last century and compares these to those in the contemporary antisemitic discourse. It challenges received historiographic assumptions about the centrality of criminal bodies and psyches in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century criminology and argues that contemporary antisemitic narratives constructed Jewish criminality not as a biologico-racial defect, but rather as a coolly manipulative force that aimed at the deliberate destruction of the basis of society itself. Through the lens of criminality this book provides new insight into the spread and nature of antisemitism in Austria-Hungary around 1900. The book also provides a re-evaluation of the phenomenon of modern Ritual Murder Trials by placing them into the context of wider narratives of Jewish crime.

Free Download Fake News in Ancient Greece: Forms and Functions of ‘False Information’ in Ancient Greek Literature
by Diego De Brasi, Amphilochios Papathomas
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3111392422 | 416 Pages | PDF | 3.15 MB

Free Download Mel Bunce, Kate Wright, Martin Scott, Tom Campbell (Narrator), "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America"
English | ASIN: B0DDZBV68B | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:44:00 | 268 MB
The Voice of America (VOA) is the oldest and largest US government-funded international media organization. In 2020, Donald Trump nominated Michael Pack, a right-wing documentarian and close friend of Steve Bannon, to lead the US Agency for Global Media-the independent federal agency overseeing US-funded international media. During Pack’s seven month tenure, more than thirty whistleblowers filed complaints against him, and a judge ruled that he had infringed journalists’ constitutional right to freedom of speech.
How did such a major international public service media network become intensely politicized by government allies in such a short time, despite having its editorial independence protected by law?

Free Download Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1305077334 | 498 Pages | PDF (True) | 47 MB
Pulling examples straight from recent headlines, WRITING AND REPORTING NEWS: A COACHING METHOD, 8e uses tips and techniques from revered writing coaches and award-winning journalists to help you develop the writing and reporting skills you need to succeed in the changing world of journalism. Full-color photographs and a strong storytelling approach keep you captivated throughout the book. An entire chapter is devoted to media ethics, while ethical dilemmas in each chapter give you practice working through ethical issues before you face them on the job. Offering the most up-to-date coverage available, the Eighth Edition fully integrates multimedia content into the chapters-reflecting the way the news world actually operates. It also includes an all-new book glossary featuring many of the newer terms used in Journalism. Integrating new trends in the convergence of print, broadcast, and online media, WRITING AND REPORTING NEWS equips you with the fundamental skills you need for media careers now-and in the future.

Free Download The Men Who Killed the News: The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1Z7Z971 | 2024 | 13 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 394 MB
Author: Eric Beecher
Narrator: Eric Beecher
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls-from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk-and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What’s gone wrong with our media? The answer: its owners. From William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk, from the British press barons to colonial upstarts Conrad Black and Rupert Murdoch, media proprietors have manipulated the news to accumulate wealth and influence as they meddled with democracy. Eric Beecher knows the news business from bottom to top. He has been a journalist, editor and media proprietor (of Text Media and Crikey), with the rare distinction of having both worked for and been sued (unsuccessfully) by the Murdochs. This book reveals the distorted role of the media moguls of the past two centuries: their techniques, strategies, behind-closed-doors machinations, and indulgent lifestyles. It explains how they have exploited the shield of the freedom of the press to undermine journalism-and truth. In an era of fake news, AI and misinformation, this is democracy’s chillingly important story: how a small coterie of flawed and narcissistic moguls created a shadow of power that has contributed to making the media an agent of mistrust.

Free Download Terry Devitt, "The Why Files: The Science Behind the News"
English | 2009 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0143114670 | EPUB | 4,2 mb
Science magazine meets The Onion, Mental Floss, and Mad magazine in this ingenious guide to the science behind the news

Free Download The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher
English | July 31st, 2024 | ISBN: 1761428047 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 2.23 MB
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls – from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk – and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

Free Download John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society"
English | ISBN: 150363857X | 2024 | 374 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in the past. In China, radio first arrived in the winter of 1922-23, bursting into a world where communication was slow, disjointed, or non-existent. Less than ten percent of the population ever read newspapers. Just fifty years later, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, news broadcasts reached hundreds of millions of people instantaneously, every day. How did Chinese citizens experience the rapid changes in information practices and political organization that occurred in this period? What was it like to live through a news revolution?

Free Download Steve Garagiola, "Making News In the Digital Age: Everybody’s Talking But Nobody’s Listening"
English | 2012 | ASIN: B0093COGJM | EPUB | pages: 183 | 0.2 mb
Personal success depends primarily on your choices. I nearly gave away my marriage and family because I didn’t understand that. No reason both of us should drive through the same potholes. Part One of this book deals with the delicate balance between personal and professional life. Part two is about communicating, which is the key to professional success. In the digital age, everyone has a voice. The challenge is to have your voice heard above the noise.

Free Download Brendan Dooley, "Exciting News!: Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present "
English | ISBN: 9004689826 | 2024 | 464 pages | PDF | 17 MB
International tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deeper analytical understanding of episodes seemingly too immediate for detached observation by our sources or even, perhaps, by ourselves? This volume brings together a broad range of current research in Europe and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for understanding past cultures and our own.