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  • Act of Congress

    How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

    by Robert G. Kaiser ...
    A Washington Post Notable BookAn eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and how it doesn’t— Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • So Damn Much Money

    by Robert G. Kaiser ...
    With a New ForewordIn So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The News About the News

    American Journalism in Peril

    by Robert G. Kaiser, Leonard Downie Jr. ...
    Freedom of the press is a primary American value. Good journalism builds communities, arms citizens with important information, and serves as a public watchdog for civic, national, and global issues. But what happens when the news turns its back on its public role?Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, and Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent, report on ... Read more

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  • The Bad News about the News

    by Robert G. Kaiser ...
    The digital revolution has forever changed American journalism, and not for the better. Robert Kaiser, former managing editor of The Washington Post, writes in his new Brookings Essay that the changing media landscape is not only a threat to traditional news, but to the future of democracy. A news industry without a viable business model, distracted by the need to attract eyeballs and discover new ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights ... Read more

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  • The Smear

    How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

    by Sharyl Attkisson ...
    A New York Times –bestselling in-depth look at how propaganda is implemented in contemporary American politics."I don't know any journalist like Sharyl Attkisson. She has no fear and she doesn't stop until she gets all of the facts, like an old-fashioned gumshoe detective." —Greta Van SusterenBehind most major political stories there is an agenda: to destroy an idea or the people advancing it. ... Read more

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  • Move Fast and Break Things

    How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

    by Jonathan Taplin ...
    A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 4th Edition

    by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel ...
    A timely new edition of the classic journalism text, now featuring updated material on the importance of reporting in the age of media mistrust and fake news—and how journalists can use technology to navigate its challengesMore than two decades ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America’s most influential newspeople and asked them, “What is journalism for?” Through ... Read more

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  • News

    The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition

    by W. Lance Bennett ...
    Can real news survive in an era of social media and spin? An updated edition of the "smart, provocative introduction to media and American politics."—Paul Freedman, author of Campaign Advertising and American DemocracyFor over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news ... Read more

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  • The Elements of Journalism

    What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

    by Tom Rosenstiel, Bill Kovach ...
    In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures that advertisers and new technologies were putting on newsrooms around the country. But, more than ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Newsroom Confidential

    Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

    by Margaret Sullivan ...
    In this revealing memoir, celebrated journalist Margaret Sullivan takes readers behind the scenes of the nation's most influential news outlets, chronicling her trailblazing career and the fight for trust in American journalism.Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she recounts her years in the trenches ... Read more

    $11.99 USD