Ranked #1
Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)
Matt Pearl, “The Solo Video Journalist: Doing It All and Doing it Well in TV Multimedia Journalism” (Focal Press, 2016)
While the title of Matt Pearl‘s book, The Solo Video Journalist: Doing it All and Doing It Well in TV Multimedia Journal... Read more
4 May 2017
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1hr
Ranked #2
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
Robert W. McChesney, “Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy” (The New Press, 2013)
Robert W. McChesney, the celebrated political economist of communication, takes the Internet, industry and government he... Read more
4 Apr 2013
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47mins
Ranked #3
Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” (Simon and Schuster, 2014)
Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” (Simon and Schuster, 2014)
The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are ... Read more
24 Feb 2016
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27mins
Ranked #4
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)
Gregory Borchard, "A Narrative History of the American Press" (Routledge, 2018)
The American press is older than the United States itself. Ever since its catalytic role in the American Revolution, jou... Read more
18 Jul 2019
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53mins
Ranked #5
Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Katya Cengel’s From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union (University of Nebraska Press, 201... Read more
11 Dec 2019
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57mins
Ranked #6
Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)
Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)
Mitchell Stephens‘s new book, The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism (St. Mart... Read more
27 Jun 2017
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50mins
Ranked #7
Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)
Adam Tanner, “Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records” (Beacon Press, 2017)
Personal health information often seems locked-down: protected by patient privacy laws, encased in electronic record sys... Read more
28 Jun 2018
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56mins
Ranked #8
Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)
Beth Macy, “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America” (Little, Brown & Company, 2018)
“Appalachia was among the first places where the malaise of opioid pills hit the nation in the mid-1990s, ensnaring coal... Read more
21 Aug 2018
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32mins
Ranked #9
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts" (Routledge, 2019)
How have memes changed politics? In Internet Memes and Society: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts(Routledge, 2019... Read more
20 Sep 2019
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34mins
Ranked #10
Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Diana Lemberg, "Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Since the 1940s, America’s relations with the rest of the world have been guided by the idea of promoting the free flow ... Read more
28 Feb 2020
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49mins
Ranked #11
Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010" (Routledge, 2018)
Irmak Karademir Hazir, "Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010" (Routledge, 2018)
How has European culture changed since the 1960s? In Enter Culture, Exit Arts? The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchie... Read more
26 Dec 2018
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36mins
Ranked #12
Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Elliott J. Gorn, "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till" (Oxford UP, 2018)
The story of Emmett Till’s death at the hands of white Mississippians is well known. For many Americans, it highlights t... Read more
5 Feb 2019
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48mins
Ranked #13
Brian Michael Goss, “Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century” (Peter Lang, 2013)
Brian Michael Goss, “Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century” (Peter Lang, 2013)
Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied ... Read more
22 Jul 2013
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44mins
Ranked #14
Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013)
Randal Marlin, “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion” (Broadview Press, 2013)
It’s been 100 years since the start of the First World War, a conflict that cost millions of lives. In his recently revi... Read more
17 Nov 2014
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41mins
Ranked #15
Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
Everybody knows the author of The Jungle was Upton Sinclair (or, if they’re a little confused, they might say Sinclair L... Read more
1 Feb 2014
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57mins
Ranked #16
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
American society is deeply divided at this moment—not just on values and opinions but on basic perceptions of reality. I... Read more
26 Jun 2019
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47mins
Ranked #17
R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)
R. Muirhead and N. L. Rosenblum, "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2019)
From Pizzagate to Jeffrey Epstein, conspiracies seem to be more prominent than ever in American political discourse. Wha... Read more
9 Dec 2019
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40mins
Ranked #18
Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)
Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, “Pop Culture Goes to War: Enlisting an Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror” (Lexington Books, 2010)
Two professors from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada have published a book about how American popular c... Read more
16 Aug 2017
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58mins
Ranked #19
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Vincent DiGirolamo, "Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019) looks at the legion of children and tee... Read more
4 Sep 2019
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29mins
Ranked #20
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. The... Read more
3 Nov 2019
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40mins