Richard Keeble

Sharon Wheeler

Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the public sphere, and celebrate the literary qualities of journalism as a genre. Key features include: an international focus taking in writers from the UK, the USA and France essays featuring a range of extremely popular writers (such as Dickens, Orwell, Angela Carter, Truman Capote) and approaches them from distinctly original angles. Each chapter begins with a concise biography to help contextualise the the journalist in question and includes references and suggested further reading for students. Any student or teacher of journalism or media studies will want to add this book to their reading list.

Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter

The Journalistic Imagination

Ian Reeves

This new edition of The Newspapers Handbook presents an enlightening examination of an ever-evolving industry, engaging with key contemporary issues, including reporting in the digital age and ethical and legislative issues following the hacking scandal to display a comprehensive anatomy of the modern newsroom. Richard Lance Keeble and Ian Reeves offer readers expert practical advice, drawing on a wide range of examples from print and digital news sources to illustrate best practice and the political, technological and financial realities of newspaper journalism today. Other key areas explored include: the language of news basic reporting the art of interviewing feature writing the role of social media in reporting investigative reporting court reporting reporting on national and local government guidance on training and careers for those entering the industry.

The Newspapers Handbook

The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's job and examines changing newspaper ownership structures and recent ethical controversies.

George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" depicts a Big Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The word Orwellian is constantly in the media - used either as a pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a complimentary adjective to mean displaying outspoken intellectual honesty. Interest in Orwell's life and writings - globally - continues unabated. Beginning with a Preface by "Richard Blair," Orwell's son, "George Orwell Now!" brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections: - Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell's collecting project; and Adam Stock on 'Big Brother's Literary Offspring' - Paul Anderson In Defence of Bernard Crick; Luke Seaber on the London Section of "Down and Out in Paris and London"; John Newsinger on Orwell's Socialism; and Philip Bounds on Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain - Marina Remy on the Writing of Otherness in "Burmese Days" and "Keep the Aspidistra Flying"'; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell's Burma; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell's "Animal Farm" alongside Chen Jo-his's "Mayor Yin" - Tim Crook on Orwell and the Radio Imagination; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on Orwell and the War Reporter's Imagination "Peter Stansky," in an Afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.

George Orwell Now!

Using a range of examples from a wide spectrum of publications, this fourth edition examines the everyday skills of newspaper reporting and remains the essential guide to working as a newspaper journalist

John Mair

Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines explores the journalism coming out of the current Afghan war from the frontline and from the greater comfort of the library. It is an unusual hybrid: the testimony of some of the best frontline correspondents of our era, much of it placed in appropriate historical contexts, alongside detailed academic analysis - and much more. Contributors include: Indra Adnan, Director of the Soft Power Network, Australia Will Barton, Senior Lecturer, Coventry School of Art and Design Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ohio Alex Crawford, Foreign Correspondent, Sky News David Cromwell and David Edwards, Media Lens Corinne Fowler, Lecturer, Leicester University Hanan Habibzai, freelance journalist covering Afghan-related issues David Hayward, Head of the Journalism Programme for the BBC College of Journalism Phillip Knightley, author of the seminal history of war correspondents Allan Little, Special Correspondent with the BBC Tim Luckhurst, Professor of Journalism, University of Kent Alpaslan Ozerdem, Professor, Coventry University Jake Lynch, University of Sydney, Kevin Marsh, Executive Editor at the BBC College of Journalism Donald Matheson, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Annabel McGoldrick, peace journalism theorist and activist Stuart Ramsay, Sky News Chief Correspondent Vaughan Smith, independent video journalist, founder of the Frontline Club Alex Thomson, Chief Correspondent, Channel Four News John Tulloch, Professor of Journalism, University of Lincoln This book allows some of our leading practitioners of war reporting to have their say. The commentators also have theirs. It is a sobering read, to put it mildly. Huw Edwards, presenter of BBC News at Ten

Deadlines and Frontlines

Afghanistan, War and the Media

Ethics for Journalists tackles many of the issues which journalists face in their everyday lives – from the media's supposed obsession with sex, sleaze and sensationalism, to issues of regulation and censorship. Its accessible style and question and answer approach highlights the relevance of ethical issues for everyone involved in journalism, both trainees and professionals, whether working in print, broadcast or new media. Ethics for Journalists provides a comprehensive overview of ethical dilemmas and features interviews with a number of journalists, including the celebrated investigative reporter Phillip Knightley. Presenting a range of imaginative strategies for improving media standards and supported by a thorough bibliography and a wide ranging list of websites, Ethics for Journalists, second edition, considers many problematic subjects including: representations of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, mental health and suicide ethics online – ‘citizen journalism’ and its challenges to ‘professionalism’ controversial calls for a privacy law to restrain the power of the press journalistic techniques such as sourcing the news, doorstepping, deathknocks and the use of subterfuge the handling of confidential sources and the dilemmas of war and peace reporting.

Ethics for Journalists

The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial Hackgate is the biggest scandal to engulf the mainstream press in decades. What started as a small bush fire News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and his private detective friend Glenn 'Trigger' Mulcaire being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure in 2007 for hacking illegally into the phones of the royal family and others - has become a forest fire destroying countless reputations (and the NoW itself) in its wake. The few hacked by NI in 2007 became nearly 6,000 in late 2011. Hackgate has also thrown the spotlight on the somewhat excessively close ties between the press, police and political elite - and raised countless questions about media standards and regulation. As Lord Leveson continues his inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press, The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism On Trial (edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair) brings together an extraordinary range of academics, journalists and media activists to provide bang-up-to-date, informed and lively commentary on the controversy: - Brian Cathcart on 'The Press, the Leveson Inquiry and the Hacked Off Campaign' - Glenda Cooper on 'Facing up to the Ethical Issues surrounding Facebook Use' - Jackie Newton and Sallyann Duncan on 'Exploring the Ethics of Death Reporting in the Social Media Age' - Richard Peppiatt on 'The Story Factory: Infotainment and the Tabloid Newsroom' - Alan Rusbridger on how Hackgate 'reveals failure of normal checks and balances to hold power to account' - John Tulloch on 'Oiling a Very Special Relationship: Journalists, Bribery and the Detective Police' Other contributors include Chris Atkins, Steven Barnett, Patrick Barrow, Teodora Beleaga, Daniel Bennett, Damian Paul Carney, the Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform, Tim Crook, Sean Dodson, Chris Frost, Ivor Gaber, Tony Harcup, Phil Harding, Huw L. Hopkins, Mike Jempson, Nicholas Jones, John Lloyd, Tim Luckhurst, Kevin Marsh, Ben McConville, Eamonn O'Neill, Wayne Powell, Stewart Purvis, Justin Schlosberg, Kate Smith, Judith Townend and Barry Turner. This is the sixth in a series of books coming out of the Coventry Conversations Conferences held jointly with the BBC College of Journalism and the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. Also available in this series: PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH THE FTSE? THE GREAT CRASH OF 2008 AND THE CRISIS IN JOURNALISM (Arima 2009) AFGHANISTAN, WAR AND MEDIA: DEADLINES AND FRONTLINES (Arima 2010) FACE THE FUTURE: THE INTERNET AND JOURNALISM TODAY (Arima 2011) INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: DEAD OR ALIVE? (Arima 2011) MIRAGE IN THE DESERT? REPORTING THE 'ARAB SPRING' (Arima 2011)

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