The Making of the New Zealand Press - A study of the organizational and political concerns of New Zealand newspaper controllers 1840-1880 by Patrick Day

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Unlike Us Reader - Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Media | Reading Level: very good

The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use every day, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose privacy restrictions with control over data, many researchers, programmers, and activists turn towards designing a decentralized future. Through understanding the big networks from within, be it by philosophy or art, new perspectives emerge. Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the dominant social media platforms with work on 'alternatives in social media', through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public discussion on how we want to shape the network architectures and the future of social networks we are using so intensely. ...Show more

Bean's Gallipoli - The diaries of Australia's official war correspondent by Kevin Fewster (ed)

$20.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: very good

Voice and Vision: a History of Broadcasting in New Zealand: Volume Two by Patrick Day

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

This is the second volume of the history of broadcasting commissioned by the Broadcasting History Trust. It runs from 1950 to the present day and covers a complex and fast-changing period of development and expansion. It focuses on the political and institutional history.

A Moral Truth: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism in New Zealand by James Hollings

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

New Zealand has a long and rich tradition of journalism that holds power to account, and that goes beyond allegation and denial to reveal hidden truths. That journalism also bears witness and investigates ideas, exposes systemic problems and insists on government action, and goes beyond allegation and d enial to get to the truth of issues. This compelling anthology of pieces, dating from the war in the Waikato to recent investigations, features the work of some of this country's finest investigative journalists, from Robyn Hyde and Pat Booth to Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle, Mike White, Jon Stephenson, Nicky Hager and Phil Kitchin. ...Show more

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson

$12.00 NZD

Category: Media | Reading Level: very good

News From the Front: War Correspondents on the Western front 1914-18 by Martin J Farrar

$15.00 NZD

Category: World War I | Reading Level: good-very good

Disreputable Profession - Journalism and Journalists in the 19th Century Australia by Denis Cryle (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: good-very good

News and the British World - The Emergence of an Imperial Press System 1876-1922 by Simon J. Potter

$20.00 NZD

Category: United Kingdom | Series: Oxford Historical Monographs | Reading Level: good-very good

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is the first scholarly study of the development of that system. Revealed to contemporaries by the South African War, the basis on which the system would develop soon became the focus for debate. Commercial organizations, including newspaper combinations and news agencies such asReuters, fought to protect their interests, while 'ccnstructive imperialists' attempted to enlist the power of the state to strrengthen the system. Debate culminated in fierce controversies over state censorship and propaganda during and after the First World War.Based on extensive archival research, this study addresses crucial themes, including the impact of empire on the press, Britain's imperial experience, and the idea of a 'British world.' Challenging earlier nationalist accounts, Dr Potter draws out the ambiguous impact of the imperial press system on local, national, and imperial identities. ...Show more

The First Casualty - From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by Phillip Knightley

$20.00 NZD

Category: Media | Reading Level: very good

Explores repressive political and military influences upon and the truthfulness of the coverage of wars of the past one hundred twenty years by reporters around the world -- Amazon.com.

Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting by Fay and Richard Trembath

$14.00 NZD

Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good

'Witnesses to War' is a landmark history of Australian war journalism that covers the major conflicts of the 20th Century: World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Bosnia through to recent and ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Witnesses to War' looks at how journalists reported the horrors and politi cs of war, the rise of the celebrity journalist, issues of censorship and the ethics of 'embedding'. Interviews with leading war correspondents including John Pilger, Paul McGeough and Chris Masters reveal the challenges of covering wars and how they personally deal with the violence they witness. Many describe becoming desensitised to the horror. Many other journalists are permanently marked by it. ...Show more

War Stories - The Culture of Foreign Correspondents by Mark Pedelty

$12.00 NZD

Category: Military | Reading Level: good

What are the influences on war correspondents as they report on news in war-torn countries? Originally published in 1995, Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of an international press corps. He writes about the reporters who covered El Salvador's civil war. Going beyond those specifics to look at the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that pattern the work of journalists everywhere. He tells us the stories of war correspondents at work and at play, as they cover the news. The myth, developed in part from the movies we watch and from CNN, is that war is reported from the front lines. More often, it is reported from the front office as journalists sit around waiting for something "big" to happen. Pedelty looks at the context in which they construct their reports. "Unnamed" diplomats in the US Embassy feed stories to reporters, who are careful not to alienate these crucial sources by adding background information that might be perceived as ideological. Reporters are also constrained by the pens and preferences of editors who work to narrow the focus of news reporting, removing necessary context in the process. By examining how news stories are actually produced, Pedelty highlights the elusiveness of the goal of "objective" journalism. We see how the biases of war correspondents are connected to structures of power, and how these biases affect actual journalistic practices. Pedelty also explores alternative possibilities for war reporting, including emerging alternative international news services and ways to deepen reporters' understandings of the countries and problems they cover. Influenced by anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, and sociology, this book will interest scholars and students in those fields, as well as journalists and anyone who watches, reads or listens to news. ...Show more