Category: Books
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The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television
In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news.
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From The Heart by Erik Smith
Erik Smith, celebrated anchorman for ABC, Channel 7, early-morning news in Detroit, Michigan presents us with a collection of stories about the exceptional Michigan people who dared to live their dreams. He has transformed his award winning television series “From The Heart” into a treasure of compelling, emotionally charged short stories. His experience and warm…
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Jay Berry’s Sports Odyssey and Beyond: From Turf To Television & The Black 14 Protest
Available from Amazon.com by Jerome (Jay) Berry From award-winning sports broadcaster Jerome Berry comes an insider account of the Black 14 incident and how he fought for success in a society designed to make him fail. In Jay Berry’s Sports Odyssey and Beyond, Berry tells the story of how he rose from humble beginnings in segregated…
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Detroit Television (Images of America)
Available from Amazon.com by Tim Kiska and Ed Golick It began atop the Penobscot Building on October 23, 1946, when WWDT shot a signal to the convention center, part of a “New Postwar Products Exposition.” WWJ-TV offered scheduled programming in June 1947, and WXYZ-TV and WJBK-TV jumped in a year later. The medium has influenced…
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The Lone Ranger: The Early Years, 1933 to 1937
Available on Amazon.com by Martin Gram and Terry Salomonson This is the book that was decades in the making. When The Lone Ranger premiered on the evening of January 31, 1933, no one involved with the creation of the program suspected that “Hi-Yo, Silver!” would become an expression that would enter America’s lexicon. For more…
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Anchored: A Journalist’s Search for Truth
Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell’s performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim’s memoir takes readers behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete, and just as…
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Enough to Be Dangerous: One Agent’s Life in TV News and Rock & Roll by Mort Meisner
Mort Minces No Words As a child in racially turbulent Detroit, Mort Meisner witnessed an attack on a black boy as white parents shouted the n-word and threw rocks to protest bussing to integrate his elementary school in 1960. A short time later, seven-year-old Mort stood helpless and crying as white teens yelled slurs at…
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Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling by Harvey Ovshinsky
Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling is a deeply personal and intimate memoir told through the lens of Harvey Ovshinsky’s lifetime of adventures as an urban enthusiast. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the country’s oldest underground newspapers. Five years later, he become one of the county’s youngest news directors in…
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Every Reasonable Doubt by Pamela Samuels Young
When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their careers, they are less than thrilled about working together. Their strained relationship, however, is the least of their problems. Their socialite client–charged with the brutal murder of her husband–is demanding an immediate dismissal of the case. But a…
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Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the…
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Fifty to Forever by Hugh Downs
An encouraging source book for aging parents and their families explores eldercare options, including day care and home care, challenges the misconception of age and helplessness, and provides ways to anticipate future needs. Booklist, “Downs’ brief essays, almost sound bites, hit upon many of the most significant issues of aging, from caring for elderly parents…
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Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840 – 1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection
by Wm B Becker The first photographic portraits were objects of wonder. From tentative beginnings in 1840, the practice of capturing a person’s “perfect image and identity” with a camera became an industry, an art form, and a means for Americans from all walks of life to send personal and often intimate messages about themselves…
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Edwin Hale Lincoln: Ephemeral Beauty: The Platinum Photographs
Editor: Wm. B Becker In this first book-length appraisal of his work, Edwin Hale Lincoln is revealed as a devoted chronicler of boats, oaks and orchids Affiliated with the American Arts and Crafts movement, American photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1938) began his photographic career in Boston, specializing in interiors. In the 1880s he started documenting…
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How To Become A Broadcasting Star: Your Step By Step Guide
Being on air is not a career that begins with an online application and a written resume. It helps to have a blueprint to build any career. This book is the broadcasting blueprint. Whether you are interested in technology, business, entertainment, news or sports there is an opportunity for you in broadcasting. If you are…
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Live to the Network
Author: Jeffrey Diamond Spinning toward a devastating confrontation with his boss, the mercurial anchorman of The Weekly Reporter, Ethan Benson stumbles upon a story about the tabloid murders of three runaway girls that have dominated the headlines in New York City. At first, the assignment appears to be just another lurid crime story that Ethan…
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Accreditation and Assessment of Journalism Education in Europe: Quality Evaluation and Stakeholder Influence
Eva Nowak – How is journalism training in Europe accredited and assessed? State organisations and the media industry influence the objectives, content and structures of such training through their accreditation. They set quality standards and, at the same time, interfere in its autonomy. Through studies of twelve countries, this volume shows how accreditation influences journalism…
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The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Revised and updated with a new preface and material on the rise of social media, the challenges facing printed news, and how journalism can fulfill its purpose in the digital age. Seventeen years ago, the Committee of Concerned Journalists gathered some of America’s most influential newspeople to ask the question, “What is journalism for?” Through…
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Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News
Authors: Marlene and Marcia Rock ‘Still Waiting for Prime Time, ‘ the afterword to this remarkable account of women’s struggle to succeed in television news, makes it clear that women continue to face discrimination in the broadcast media.
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Live to Tape
Author: Jeffrey L. Diamond Ethan Benson has no idea his life is about to change forever when he walks through the door of The Weekly Reporter where he’s starting a new job as a senior producer, charged with managing the show’s mercurial anchorman. As he settles in on his first day, he’s summoned by the…
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Extreme Makeover by Teresa Tomeo
Popular radio host Teresa Tomeo knows from experience that the self-image of American women is being distorted by pop culture. With its emphasis on youth, physical beauty, and sexuality, the secular media is encouraging women–and girls–to see themselves primarily as sex objects. A professional TV and radio journalist, Tomeo pulls together the latest research on…
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Turning Your Customers into Long-Term Friends: The Secret Sauce that Guarantees Repeat and Referral Sales [Kindle & Paperback Editions]
Now Available from Amazon.com for $15.99 There’s only one way to become an outstanding success as a salesperson. It’s called repeat and referral sales. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling cars, real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, financial services or farm equipment. If you don’t focus your efforts on generating repeat and referral sales, you’re going nowhere…
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100% Employee Engagement Guaranteed! Newly Revised [Kindle & Paperback Editions]
Now Available from Amazon.com for $15.99 Imagine a workplace where every employee is engaged with their work … where every employee shows up each day excited about giving every bit of energy, creativity and passion to performing their job. These employees don’t need to be motivated because they already are and they channel their motivation…
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Beyond Duh! Creativity in Action by Art Fettig
A book for everyone who ever had a great idea! Develop your own creativity! Nourish creativity in others! Expand your imagination for fun and profit! Use you subconscious mind 24 hours a day Write a book, a dynamic presentation, a song! Turn on that creative genius within you! Make creativity the key to your expanding…
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100% Employee Engagement–Guaranteed! Revised Edition: Introducing a New Management Model
By Ross Reck, PhD Imagine a workplace where every employee is engaged with their work … where every employee shows up each day excited about giving every bit of energy, creativity and passion to performing their job. These employees don’t need to be motivated because they already are and they channel their motivation toward creating…
