New item: The Race Beat

The race beat: The press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation
by Gene Roberts
Is this available for checkout? Use CardCat to find out. Then, look for call number PN4888.R3 R63 2006 in Bracken Library.

Contents: An American dilemma : an astonishing ignorance -- "A fighting press" -- Southern editors in a time of ferment -- Ashmore views the South -- The Brown decisions harden the South -- Into Mississippi -- The Till trial -- Where massive and passive resistance meet -- Alabama -- Toward Little Rock -- LIttle Rock showdown -- New eyes on the old South -- Backfire in Virginia -- From sit-ins to SNCC -- Alabama versus the Times, freedom riders versus the South -- Albany -- Ole Miss -- Wallace and King -- Defiance at close range -- The killing season -- Freedom summer -- Selma -- Beyond.

New item: Convergence Journalism

Convergence journalism: Writing and reporting across the news media
by Janet Kolodzy
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Look for call number PN4784.O62 K66 2006.

Contents: Why convergence? : it's the consumer, stupid -- Consorting with the enemy -- Common values, common goals -- Approaching the story -- Broadcast basics : write simply, think visually -- Print basics : value plus -- Online basics : tying it all together -- Participatory journalism : convergence plus -- News for kids : the next generation.

New item: Creating powerful radio

Creating powerful radio: Getting, keeping, and growing audiences
by Valerie Geller
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Look for call number PN1991.5 .G45 2007.

Contents: Creating powerful radio -- Finding and developing talent -- Generators and reactors -- Performance and formatics -- Morning shows -- From rock to talk -- Talk shows -- Integrating news and talk-- Interviews -- Show prep -- Producers -- Call screening -- High-ego talent -- News -- Traffic and weather together -- Newswriting -- News anchoring -- Multi-version news -- Integrating radio and TV news -- Public service announcements -- Avoiding burnout -- Airchecking -- Promotion -- Sales and commercials -- Lifestage demographics -- Research -- Final notes.

New item: Radio Modernism

Radio modernism : literature, ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938
by Todd Avery
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Look for call number PN1991.3.G7 A94 2006.

Contents: Introduction : modernism in the air -- Arnold over Britain? : John Reith and broadcasting morality -- Common talkers : the Bloomsbury Group and the aestheticist ethics of broadcasting -- A natural selection : H.G. Wells and a Huxleyan ethics of communications -- Talks toward a definition of morality : T.S. Eliot and the consecration of broadcasting.