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Free Download Haiyan Wang, "The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China: From Journalists to Activists"
English | ISBN: 1498527612 | 2016 | 188 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Investigative journalism emerged in China in the 1980s following Deng Xiaoping’s media reforms. Over the past few decades, Chinese investigative journalists have produced an increasing number of reports in print or on air and covered a surprisingly wide range of topics which had been thought impossible by the standards of the Communist era. In the 2010s, however, investigative journalism has been replaced by activist journalism. This book examines how, with the aid of new media technologies and in response to new calls for social responsibility, these new-era journalists vigorously seek to expand the scope of their journalism and their capacity as journalists. They tend to perceive themselves as more than professional journalists, and their activities are not limited to the physical boundaries of newsrooms. They are not only detached observers of society but also engaged organizers of social movements-they are social activists as well as responsible journalists who challenge state power and the party line and point to the limitations of the more traditional conceptions of journalism in China. This book analyzes how journalism in China has been gradually transformed from a tool of the state to a means of broadening calls for democratic reform.

Free Download Andrea Wenzel, "Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News"
English | ISBN: 023120969X | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Across the United States, newsrooms are grappling with systemic racism in their organizations and the media industry. Many have implemented diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or made other attempts to confront past and present biases in pursuit of greater equity. Are such efforts merely performative, or are any transforming norms and power structures? What would it take to hold newsrooms truly accountable?

Free Download Chengju Huang, "Popular Journalism in Contemporary China: Politics, Market, Culture and Technology "
English | ISBN: 3031405293 | 2023 | 206 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book, the first of its kind, investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in the People’s Republic of China. Taking a popular cultural perspective, the book redefines "popular journalism" as a particular journalistic genre and media form and applies it to conceptualize popular journalism in the Chinese context. In particular, it examines how the dynamic and complex interplay of politics, the market, culture, and communication technology in shifting contexts has shaped the changing landscape of popular journalism in contemporary China. Meanwhile, regardless of how these factors might have changed over time, the fundamental nature of popular journalism as a source of fun and a troublemaker against elite powers in China, as in other places, has remained. The book further argues that the historical development of popular journalism in China forms an important and integral part of the country’s social-cultural fabric and ultimately illustrates the mediated ideological and cultural struggle between popular/public and elite/state discourses in the country’s everyday social life in its challenging and discursive transition to modernity.

Free Download Kate Campbell, "Journalism, Literature and Modernity"
English | ISBN: 1853311758 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Journalism has often been disregarded by literary critics and authors alike. Its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet ‘journalism’ broadly refers to all writing in public journals, spanning high culture and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic. Journalism, Literature and Modernity considers journalism in its diversity, suggesting its aptness for interdisciplinary study. The authors examine writing in journals across a cultural spectrum-literary journals, organs of culture, magazines, journals promoting modernism, and daily newspapers. Demonstrating a variety of approaches, they explore journalism’s importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism through readings of established writers and critics – William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding – and journals and journalists – Henry Mayhew,

Free Download Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America by Ramón Salaverría
English | EPUB (True) | 2021 | 295 Pages | ISBN : 3030658597 | 1.6 MB
"Latin American journalism is currently experiencing some important transformations, with potential changes to how news is produced, shared, financed and consumed. This book provides a comprehensive overview of current journalism in Latin America, contextualized by global literature and regional empirical evidence. It is an important addition to our understanding of digital journalism and a must-read for those interested in journalism in Latin America."

Free Download Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media: New Actors, Models and Practices by María-Cruz Negreira-Rey, Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, José Sixto-García, Xosé López-García
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 287 Pages | ISBN : 3031439252 | 7.3 MB
What changes have affected the definition of the boundaries of journalism in the last decade? How do technologies influence the boundaries of journalism? Are threats and opportunities identified in those blurred areas of journalism? The aim of this book is to answer these questions and to address, from different perspectives, the redefinition of the boundaries of journalism according to the most recent changes in digital media concerning actors, models, and practices.

Free Download Ruth Moon, "Authoritarian Journalism: Controlling the News in Post-Conflict Rwanda "
English | ISBN: 0197623425 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Journalists working in authoritarian countries contend with competing institutional logics. This is particularly the case in post-conflict countries, where journalistic practice is simultaneously shaped by historical antagonisms, global development initiatives, and the authoritarian state. While journalism schools and professional organizations speak a Western logic of objectivity and independence, political history instills a logic of subordination, and organizational business models instill a logic of financially motivated censorship. As more countries move away from democratic models, more and more journalists will face these seemingly irreconcilable pressures.

Free Download Hybrid Investigative Journalism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031419383 | 203 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This open access book is a rare example of the ethnographic study of investigative journalism. This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) join experienced investigative journalists in experiments with the practices of watchdog journalism in the digital era. Cases include Bristol Cable, Bureau Local and the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism, as well as Forbidden Stories. The book also includes two chapters on the impact of COVID-19 upon the development of cross-disciplinary work in a traditional newsroom and in the larger media ecosystems of both Norway and China. This is a timely book for journalism students, scholars and investigative reporters, who share a passion for this form of journalism.

Free Download Arnold Kemp, "Confusion To Our Enemies: Collected Journalism of Arnold Kemp (1939-2002)"
English | 2012 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906000190 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
From the Foreword by Professor Tom Arnold Kemp, one of the greatest of Scottish journalists and editors of the 20th century, died prematurely at the age of 63 in 2002. He edited The Herald with memorable elan and panache between 1981 and 1994 and his prolific writings also regularly graced the pages of the Scotsman, the Guardian and the Observer in a career which spanned more than four decades from the year he began his first job in journalism in 1959 as a sub-editor on the Scotsman, fresh out of Edinburgh University. Kemp left behind him a rich personal but un-catalogued archive of newspaper articles, chapters in books and opinion pieces.These have now been expertly harvested and selected by his daughter, Jackie. Reading them, it is clear that her father was a master of his trade, and that his published work provides a perceptive and illuminating guide to the key historical events of his lifetime in Scotland.This book encompasses the arly rise of nationalism, the traumatic de-industrialisation and then transformation of the economy in the 1980s, the impact of the Thatcher governments on Scotland, the halting progress toward devolution and then the successful establishment of the Scottish Parliament in the last decade of the century. These events and others are all recorded here, not in the arid descriptive prose of the chronicler, but with the eloquence, punch and insight for which Kemp was noted. As a result the recent Scottish past is brought alive in an engaging and highly readable fashion. The immediacy of the reportage, the sense of a writer who, because of his journalistic and editorial eminence knew all the principal actors involved and was close to the unfolding of great events, are all plainly evident to the reader. But Kemp also scorns mediocrity, incompetence, humbug and hypocrisy in the political and cultural life of the nation and several of the excerpts are also fair and balanced judgements, perhaps most notably in the evaluation of the impact of Margaret Thatcher on Scotland. There is a liveliness and breadth in the writing, redolent of Kemp’s own personal wide international horizons, his travels in America and Europe, love of conviviality and the craic. The passion for life shines through. This is an important text for anyone wishing to come to a fuller understanding of how Scotland developed from the dark days of the Second World War to the current debates over independence. It is also a hugely enjoyable read which many will savour with interest and delight for its own sake.

Free Download Convergent Journalism: An Introduction; Writing and Producing Across Media; 4
by F. Filak Vincent
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032514116 | 207 pages | True PDF | 11.45 MB