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71. What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss

    A Student Guide

    By Greg Smith

    You probably already have a clear idea of what a "discussion guide for students" is: a series of not-very-interesting questions at the end of a textbook chapter. Instead of triggering thought-provoking class discussion, all too often these guides are time-consuming and ineffective. This is not that...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge
72. The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio

    Edited by Christopher H. Sterling, Cary O'Dell

    The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Radio presents the very best biographies of the internationally acclaimed three-volume Encyclopedia of Radio in a single volume. It includes more than 200 biographical entries on the most important and influential American radio personalities, writers,...

    Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge
73. Writing for Broadcast Journalists

    2nd Edition

    By Rick Thompson

    Series: Media Skills

    'This is a superb book which combines the rare mixture of high quality information with humour. The style of writing engages the reader from the introduction and the experience and insight of the author occasionally makes it difficult to put down, a rare feature of a textbook. I would unreservedly...

    Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
74. Relocating Television

    Television in the Digital Context

    Edited by Jostein Gripsrud

    Series: Comedia

    For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies – the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something...

    Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
75. The Media Economy

    By Alan B. Albarran

    Series: Media Management and Economics Series

    The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representing a rapidly changing and evolving environment, this text breaks new ground through its analysis...

    Published June 14th 2010 by Routledge
76. Reporting for Journalists

    2nd Edition

    By Chris Frost

    Series: Media Skills

    Reporting for Journalists explains the key skills needed by the twenty-first century news reporter. From the process of finding a story and tracing sources, to interviewing contacts, gathering information and filing the finished report, it is an essential handbook for students of journalism and a...

    Published June 1st 2010 by Routledge
77. Television and Culture in Putin's Russia

    Remote control

    By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
78. Screening Gender on Children's Television

    The Views of Producers around the World

    By Dafna Lemish

    Screening Gender on Children’s Television offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences. It goes far beyond a critical analysis of the existing portrayals of gender and culture by sharing...

    Published February 25th 2010 by Routledge
79. Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    By Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston

    Series: Routledge Revivals: Bad News

    It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976. The authors undertook...

    Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge
80. More Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    By Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston

    Series: Routledge Revivals: Bad News

    First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as...

    Published December 17th 2009 by Routledge