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Gunfight at the all-news corral. (more 24 hour cable news channels): An article from: American Journalism Review
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This digital document is an article from American Journalism Review, published by University of Maryland on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 851 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: More news channels exist today than ever before. However, only a few such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox cable news will survive. The problem is that ratings are not growing. read more »
Times are better than they used to be. (women journalists): An article from: St. Louis Journalism Review
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This digital document is an article from St. Louis Journalism Review, published by SJR St. Louis Journalism Review on December 1, 1997. The length of the article is 902 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.From the supplier: Women journalists have come a long way since the earlier days of journalism. read more »
Labor Struggles In The Deep South and Other Writings
![]() | author: Covington Hall asin: 0882862448 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00 USD |
In the half-century since it was written, Hall's Labor Struggles In The Deep South, published here for the first time, has become an underground classic among activist historians writing on the South and on working people. Hall - journalist, organizer, rebel, professor and poet - brings to life the dramatic early 20th century struggles of the waterfront workers of New Orleans and the militant timber workers of Louisiana and East Texas. read more »
Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders
![]() | author: Richard Manning asin: 1559636556 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00 USD |
"This book is about an idea that rests at the junction of what we call wilderness and civilization. Simply, it is a call for rethinking, and more importantly, reconstructing, our relationship with nature." -from Inside Passage.Protecting land in parks, safe from human encroachment, has been a primary strategy of conservationists for the past century and a half. Yet drawing lines around an area and calling it wilderness does little to solve larger environmental problems. read more »
On the Road from Start to Story, Writing Creatively and all that Fun Stuff
![]() | author: Betty Grimshaw asin: 0966824008 binding: Spiral-bound list price: $13.95 USD amazon price: $13.95 |
On the Road from Start to Story, 100 pages, is a hands-on creative writing workbook, a road map designed for adults and motivated teens who want to learn the how-to's of writing either a short story or novel. It is not about spelling, grammar, punctuation or any of the mechanical aspects of writing. It is all about how to creatively write "story." The first half of each chapter shows creative writing by example and instruction, using subjects as various as natural history, science, cookery, etc. read more »
The Writing and Revision Stylebook
![]() | author: Gregory Heyworth Rosette Liberman asin: 0970111304 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95 |
The Writing and Revision Stylebook is a practical and user-friendly guide to editing essays and business communications. It corrects grammar and punctuation, teaches logic, polishes style. Written by master teachers, it not only points out errors, but provides step-by-step practical instructions on how to correct them. It contains features available in other handbooks only in a limited way, if at all. It is the only handbook or stylebook on the market that contains 1000 exercises with answers and explanations of each exercise. read more »
The Quick Resume and Cover Letter Book: Write and Use an Effective Resume in Only One Day (Jist's Quick Guides)
![]() | author: J. Michael Farr asin: 1563701413 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 |
The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book, Fourth Edition, gives job seekers allthe expert advice they need to stay aead of competitors and land a great job. This book offers proven, proactive advice on how to create outstanding job search documents and use them efficiently. Readers learn to create a basic resume in an hour and an improved resume in about half a day.The fourth edition of this helpful guide includes more than 90 all-new sample resumes written by professional resume writers for all types of jobs and people, including a new chapter with electronic resume samples. read more »
Owning a Piece of the Minors (Writing Baseball)
![]() | author: Jerome Klinkowitz Mike Veeck asin: 0809321947 binding: Hardcover list price: $25.00 USD amazon price: $25.00 USD |
Owning a Piece of the Minors is by and about a man who lived his dream and acquired a baseball team. When Jerry Klinkowitz joined the group that ran the Waterloo, Iowa, Diamonds in the 1970s, ownership of a minor league baseball franchise conferred little mystique. Neglected for a half century, minor league baseball was at best obscure. Yet in the purchase of fantasy, what difference if your desire is out of style? read more »







