Communications and Media Studies

The Rose Man of Sing Sing
James M. Morris
Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom...
ISBN: 9780823222681
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Erik Barnouw
This selection of essays, articles, lectures, and other writings by Erik Barnouw, dean of American media scholars, chronicles “the phenomenon of old media giving way to new, and then being replaced...
ISBN: 9780823220991
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Art Athens
Stories with no substance. Talking heads without a clue. “Team” coverage that still misses the big picture. Overheated hype. Cute chatter. Film at eleven. Is it any wonder more and more of us count...
ISBN: 9780823223534
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Dean Duncan
From Chaplin’s brilliant use of Wagner in The Gold Rush to the Bach chorale closing Scorsese’s Casino, classical music has played a fascinating role in movies. Dean Duncan provides a fresh critical...
ISBN: 9780823222803
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William O'Shaughnessy
Bill O'Shaughnessy's back. Here's the third big book of interviews, editorials, essays, commentaries, and observations, and just plain good talk from an authentic American voice.From the "bully pulpit"...
ISBN: 9780823223367
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Hy B. Turner
When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently established...
ISBN: 9780823219445
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Bonnie Brennen
For the Record focuses on the experiences of journalists, primarily in their own words, who worked in Rochester, New York, on the Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle and the Times Union.While there...
ISBN: 9780823221370
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A.M. Sperber
Murrow is the biography of America’s foremost broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow. At twenty-nine, he was the prototype of a species new to communications—an eyewitness to history with power...
ISBN: 9780823218820
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DeeDee Halleck
For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by “non-professionals.” Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential...
ISBN: 9780823221011
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William O'Shaughnessy
AirWAVES!, a collection of more than thirty years of editorials and commentary given by William O’Shaughnessy, encompasses a wide spectrum of Westchester life, from politics to just plain citizens.O’Shaughnessy,...
ISBN: 9780823219049
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William O'Shaughnessy
It All Comes Back to Me Now features profiles and touching vignettes about contemporary figures like Jeanine and Al Pirro, Andrew Cuomo, Archbishop Edward Egan, the late John Cardinal O'Connor, the...
ISBN: 9780823221424
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