Product Description: Has Al Jazeera's impact been underestimated? Is the role of the Internet fully understood? Has public diplomacy become mired in clumsy propaganda? Beyond the Front Lines examines these issues, suggesting ways journalists might carry out their job better and defining the role of the news media in a high-tech, globalized and dangerous world...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays explores current issues surrounding the media and conflict in the Twenty-first Century. Essays will look at the role of evolving media technologies, the globalization of television and communications, public diplomacy, gender and war coverage, terrorism, and other issues...read more

An award-winning journalist chronicles the life and career of baseball's first superstar pitcher, Christy Mathewson, following his stellar career on the mound, as well as his work as a clean-living role model, helping elevate sports to an honored place in American life. Reprint.

Product Description: In many U.S. news organizations, international coverage is accorded minimal importance. The conventional wisdom seems to be that international reporting costs too much and does too little to win and keep an audience, and thus only sensational or government-highlighted incidents are reported...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Live! Breaking story! Up-to-the-minute coverage! We hear these teasers every day. But do they always guide us to real news? With the explosive growth of online news and increased barrage of sensational live shots on TV, getting a story first seems more important than getting it right...read more

Product Description: Veteran journalist and communications scholar Philip Seib examines the future of Anglo-American relations in the context of post-Cold War developments such as the restructuring of NATO and the growing importance of the European Union...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The discussion of ethics in mass communication and journalism offers a combination of theory and practical examples to illustrate how the news media grapple with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Cases are used to illustrate fundamental ethical principles, elicit discussions about the duties of a journalist, and stimulate thinking about why ethics matter...read more

Product Description: Seib examines the ethical issues underlying the volatile relationship between journalists and politicians. It provides an inside look at how reporters and candidates do their jobs. From the screening process news organizations use to decide which candidates to cover, to the truth-testing of political ads, to the controversies surrounding election night projections, this work articulates crucial ethical questions and helps readers in their search for answers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life of the controversial political commentator and cultural critic, describes the influence of small town life on his outlook, and discusses the role of the modern talk show

Looks at how the news media cover politics, discusses how politicians try to manipulate the press, and discusses Reagan's presidential campaign

Product Description: Getting Elected remove the mysteries about how politics and emphasizes the importance of political participation by all citizens. It begins on election night as the nation awaits the outcome of a presidential campaign, then explains the entire process: how candidates get started, build their campaign organizations, contact voters, and the rules of the game that all come together in victory or defeat at the polls...read more