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This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development, and reflects on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and development.

Advancing a new media balkanization theory, Benoit and Billings neither lament nor embrace the new media landscape, opting instead to pinpoint how we must consider mass communication theories and applications in an era of ubiquitous choice.

In an age when young people may confuse online chatter with legitimate news, Navigating the News is the first textbook designed to show students how to recognize credible reporting and how real journalists perform their jobs.

In an age when young people may confuse online chatter with legitimate news, Navigating the News is the first textbook designed to show students how to recognize credible reporting and how real journalists perform their jobs.

Features leading scholars, educators, and media makers to explore approaches to thinking about, examining, and evaluating news media and civic engagement around these fundamental questions: what are the pressing issues in news, media, and culture in a converged, digital, and global media age?

This book advances research on media accountability and transparency, and also offers innovative perspectives for newsrooms, media policy-makers, and journalism educators. Its systematic comparative design makes it an unprecedented venture in international journalism studies.

Bringing together a variety of viewpoints and perspectives on evaluating media assistance, this title offers a critical reflection on the theories and tools of measurements that are used by the academic, donor, and civil society communities.

Expands the scope of the study of literary journalism both geographically and thematically. This book provides critical overviews of African American literary journalism in the 1950s and of literary journalism in Brazil from 1870 to the present day, and a section asks whether there is a specific women's voice in literary journalism.