Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting (From Our Own Correspondent) - Softcover

Hamilton, John Maxwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807143596 ISBN 13: 9780807143599

Verlag: Louisiana State University Press, 2011

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Book by John Maxwell Hamilton

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Journalism's Roving Eye is a prodigious account of a specific form of newsgathering--foreign correspondence--that has long been buffeted by pressures to cut costs and waning public interest in what happens abroad, even before the more recent challenges posed by the Internet. Journalism has a raffish and colorful past, but the annals of foreign reporting are particularly suited to the storytelling that Hamilton provides. His book is an expansive narrative that also underscores serious questions about what is happening now.--Foreign Affairs

Not just for journalism hounds, Journalism's Roving Eye ladles from the last two and a half centuries a detailed history of American reporting from abroad. Hamilton, a former foreign correspondent turned academic, assembles the components of the big foreign-reporting machine--the editors, publishers, reporters, fixers, and shooters as well as technologies such as transoceanic telegraph cables, television, the geosynchronous satellite, the personal computer, and the Internet--to produce an authoritative book. There is nothing like it in the library. [Best Books of 2009]--Slate

Journalism's Roving Eye is an alluring and enlightening piece of work. Hamilton . . . spurns plodding narrative in favor of an intelligent tour, full of unexpected pleasures and plums. The book, in its scope, detail, and sheer mastery, is a major achievement.--James Boylan "Columbia Journalism Review "

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Winner of the Goldsmith Prize, the Tankard Book Award, and the American Journalism Historians Association’s Book of the Year, John Maxwell Hamilton’s Journalism’s Roving Eye has quickly become the definitive history of American foreign reporting. This edition includes a new preface and updated text that reflects the most current developments in foreign reporting. Beginning with the colonial era, the book focuses on underlying factors—such as technology and public opinion—as well as a cavalcade of personalities who bring the narrative to life in arresting detail, making this an indispensable resource for anyone eager to understand the evolution of foreign newsgathering.

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• Verlag: Louisiana State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0807143596
• ISBN 13: 9780807143599
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 680