America S Last Great Newspaper War

Author : Mike Jaccarino
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780823287390

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America's Last Great Newspaper War by Mike Jaccarino Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK POST ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIOBOOK A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch-rivals. When author Mike Jaccarino was offered a job at the Daily News in 2006, he was asked a single question: “Kid, what are you going to do to help us beat the Post?” That was the year things went sideways at the News, when the New York Post surpassed its nemesis in circulation for the first time in the history of both papers. Tasked with one job—crush the Post—Jaccarino here provides the behind-the-scenes story of how the runners and shooters on both sides would do anything and everything to get the scoop before their opponents. The New York Daily News and the New York Post have long been the Hatfields and McCoys of American media: two warring tabloids in a town big enough for only one of them. As digital news rendered print journalism obsolete, the fight to survive in NYC became an epic, Darwinian battle. In America’s Last Great Newspaper War, Jaccarino exposes the untold story of this tabloid death match of such ferocity and obsession its like has not occurred since Pulitzer– Hearst. Told through the eyes of hungry “runners” (field reporters) and “shooters” (photographers) who would employ phony police lights to overcome traffic, Mike Jaccarino’s memoir unmasks the do-whatever-it-takes era of reporting—where the ends justified the means and nothing was off-limits. His no-holds-barred account describes sneaking into hospitals, months-long stakeouts, infiltrating John Gotti’s crypt, bidding wars for scoops, high-speed car chases with Hillary Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and the baby mama of a philandering congressman—all to get that coveted front-page story. Today, few runners and shooters remain on the street. Their age and exploits are as bygone as the News–Post war and American newspapers, generally. Where armies once battled, often no one is covering the story at all. Funding for this book was provided by: Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund

Author : Chris Dubbs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496200174

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American Journalists in the Great War by Chris Dubbs Pdf

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. Its scale, brutality, and duration forced journalists to write their own rules for reporting and keeping the American public informed. American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the journalists who covered World War I for the American public. Chris Dubbs draws on personal accounts from contemporary newspaper and magazine articles and books to convey the experiences of the journalists of World War I, from the western front to the Balkans to the Paris Peace Conference. Their accounts reveal the challenges of finding the war news, transmitting a story, and getting it past the censors. Over the course of the war, reporters found that getting their scoop increasingly meant breaking the rules or redefining the very meaning of war news. Dubbs shares the courageous, harrowing, and sometimes humorous stories of the American reporters who risked their lives in war zones to record their experiences and send the news to the people back home.

Author : Mark Cronlund Anderson,Carmen L. Robertson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554063

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Seeing Red by Mark Cronlund Anderson,Carmen L. Robertson Pdf

The first book to examine the role of Canada’s newspapers in perpetuating the myth of Native inferiority. Seeing Red is a groundbreaking study of how Canadian English-language newspapers have portrayed Aboriginal peoples from 1869 to the present day. It assesses a wide range of publications on topics that include the sale of Rupert’s Land, the signing of Treaty 3, the North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel, the death of Pauline Johnson, the outing of Grey Owl, the discussions surrounding Bill C-31, the “Bended Elbow” standoff at Kenora, Ontario, and the Oka Crisis. The authors uncover overwhelming evidence that the colonial imaginary not only thrives, but dominates depictions of Aboriginal peoples in mainstream newspapers. The colonial constructs ingrained in the news media perpetuate an imagined Native inferiority that contributes significantly to the marginalization of Indigenous people in Canada. That such imagery persists to this day suggests strongly that our country lives in denial, failing to live up to its cultural mosaic boosterism.

Author : Howard Weaver
Publisher : Epicenter Press (WA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1935347195

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Write Hard, Die Free by Howard Weaver Pdf

When he fell in love with newspapering at the Anchorage Daily News, Howard Weaver was an untested twenty-one-year-old cub reporter from a blue-collar neighborhood in America's farthest-north big city: His home state of Alaska was on the cusp of great change. By the time Weaver moved on twenty-three years later he'd led the paper to the most unlikely David and Goliath upset in the history of American newspaper competition and helped win two Pulitzer Prizes. He spent time with small-town hoodlums and big-time politicians and crossed swords with both Big Oil and Big Labor as he rose from foot soldier to field marshal in the Great Alaska Newspaper War. Weaver's journey encompassed the defining political struggles of the era-from oil development to Native sovereignty, from parkland designations to environmental activism. His newspaper pulled no punches then, and Weaver has pulled none in this definitive account of the fierce and sometimes funny fight to the finish against the long-dominant Anchorage Times. The Author: A former editor of the Anchorage Daily News and later vice president for news for the McClatchy Company's thirty-one daily newspapers, Howard Weaver lives with his wife Barbara Hodgin in the Sierra foothills of central California. Book jacket.

Author : Skip Marshall
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781462824458

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LIFE ON SUGAR CREEK: Battlefield Report from the Last Newspaper War by Skip Marshall Pdf

Newspapers are dying. Giant media companies as well as smaller print media companies are closing, threatened, or in bankruptcy. What has happened to the American newspaper? In his new book, Life on Sugar Creek, Skip Marshall draws comparisons between large and small market newspapers and speculates that years of intransigence and arrogance have resulted in the current crisis. Anyone who has had any sort of relationship with newspapers will enjoy reading this warts-and-all look at a business that the author predicts will not survive the current generation. Dry humor and biting criticism alternate and weave together the story that unfolds in a small town in Indiana where the last American newspaper war is being fought.

Author : Ken Tingley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476646268

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The Last American Newspaper by Ken Tingley Pdf

This book reveals what is happening in small communities across the United States as their newspapers struggle to survive. It is a celebration not just of journalism, but of the inspirational people who do it and the news and events of small towns. Importantly, it asks the question: who will be the community watchdog of the future? This book memorializes the American newspaper through the story of the Post-Star of Glens Falls, NY. The author, a devoted veteran of the Post-Star, compiles a series of vignettes that depict the newspaper's coverage over the years. They provide a glimpse behind the newsroom curtain through the stories of the investigative journalism done in small towns.

Author : Kevin McAuliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002544513

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The Great American Newspaper by Kevin McAuliffe Pdf

Traces the rise and fall The Village Voice, the country's first alternative newsweekly.

Author : WYTHE WILLIAMS
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PASSED BY THE CENSOR THE EXPERIENCE OF AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN IN FRANCE by WYTHE WILLIAMS Pdf

Special correspondents in great numbers have come from America into the European "zone of military activity," and in almost equal numbers have they gone out, to write their impressions, their descriptions, their histories, their romances and songs. Other correspondents who are not "special," but who by the grace of the military authorities have been permitted to enter the forbidden territory, and by the favor of the censor have been allowed to tell what they saw there, have entered it again and again at regular intervals. These are the "regular" correspondents, who lived in Europe before war was declared, and who during many idle hours speculated on what they would do with that great arm of their vocation—the cable—when the expected hour of conflict arrived. Few of their plans worked out, and new ones were formed on the minute—on the second. For the Germans did not cut the cable, as some of the correspondents, in moments of despair, almost hoped they would do, and the great American public clamored insistently for the "news" with its breakfast. It is a journalist's methods in covering the biggest, the hardest "story" that newspapers were ever compelled to handle, that this book attempts to describe.

Author : Josh S. Cutler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142274

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Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812 by Josh S. Cutler Pdf

With a bitterly divided nation plunged into the War of 1812, a fiery young Federalist editor named Alexander Hanson risked his life to defend a newspaper that dared express unpopular views. His words provoked a violent standoff that crippled the city of Baltimore and left Hanson beaten within an inch of his life. This little-known episode in American history - complete with a midnight jailbreak, bloodthirsty mobs and unspeakable acts of torture - helped shape the course of war, the Federalist Party and the nation's very notion of the freedom of the press. Josh Cutler's history of the Mobtown Massacre offers a lesson in liberty that reverberates today.

Author : George Sylvie,Patricia D. Witherspoon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135658090

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Time, Change, and the American Newspaper by George Sylvie,Patricia D. Witherspoon Pdf

This volume combines the study of newspaper management & operation with the leadership of change in organizations, providing a unique perspective on change in media organizations. For scholars & students in journalism & media management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293017646625

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The Illustrated American by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Advertising
ISBN : UCAL:B2923866

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War Bond Government Newspaper Advertising by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : Brooke L. Blower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199322008

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Americans in a World at War by Brooke L. Blower Pdf

"On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort. As the Yankee Clipper's passengers' travels take them from Ukraine, France, Spain, Panama, Cuba, and the Philippines to Java, India, Australia, Britain, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Belgian Congo, among other hot spots, their movements defy simple boundaries between home front and war front and upend conventional American narratives about World War II"--

Author : Sid Bedingfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252099830

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Newspaper Wars by Sid Bedingfield Pdf

Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight"--to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive fighters" for equality. Newspaper Wars traces the role journalism played in the fight for civil rights in South Carolina from the 1930s through the 1960s. Moving the press to the center of the political action, Sid Bedingfield tells the stories of the long-overlooked men and women on the front lines of a revolution. African American progress sparked a battle to shape South Carolina's civic life, with civil rights activists arrayed against white journalists determined to preserve segregation through massive resistance. As that strategy failed, white newspapers turned to overt political action and crafted the still-prevalent narratives that aligned southern whites with the national conservative movement. A fascinating portrait of a defining time, Newspaper Wars analyzes the role journalism played--and still can play--during times of social, cultural, and political change.

Author : American Gas Light Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112079784127

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Proceedings of the American Gas Light Association by American Gas Light Association Pdf