JTMPNW Reading List
Potential Books for Re-Imagining News and Community in the Pacific Northwest
January 7-10, 2010
Grassroots Journalism: A Practical Manual, 2nd edition by Eesha Williams (Paperback - Jan 22, 2007)
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) by W. Lance Bennett (Hardcover - Dec 1, 2007)
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion) (Hardcover) W. Lance Bennett (Author), Regina G. Lawrence (Author), Steven Livingston (Author)
Press Bias and Politics: How the Media Frame Controversial Issues (Praeger Series in Political Communication) by Jim A. Kuypers (Paperback - Sep 30, 2002)
The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America by David Domke and Kevin Coe (Hardcover - Dec 7, 2007)
Blogwars: The New Political Battleground by David D. Perlmutter (Hardcover - Mar 7, 2008)
Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections (Series in Political Psychology) by Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Page Bucy (Hardcover - Mar 2, 2009)
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta (Hardcover - Nov 3, 2009)
Project Rewire: New Media from the Inside Out by Judy Daubenmier (Paperback - Oct 16, 2006)
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by Dan Gillmor (Paperback - Jan 24, 2006)
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel (Paperback - April 24, 2007)
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journalism by Christopher K. Passante (Paperback - Sep 4, 2007)
Letters to a Young Journalist (Art of Mentoring) by Samuel G. Freedman (Hardcover - Mar 27, 2006)
New New Media by Paul Levinson (Paperback - Sep 5, 2009)
Producing for TV and New Media, Second Edition: A Real-World Approach for Producers by Cathrine Kellison (Paperback - Oct 6, 2008)
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again by Robert W. McChesney and Nichols John (Hardcover - Jan 5, 2010)
REMAKING MEDIA: THE STRUGGLE TO DEMOCRATIZE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION (Communication and Society) by Bob Hackett and Bill Carroll (Paperback - Jun 23, 2006)
Making Online News: The Ethnography of New Media Production (Digital Formations) by Chris Paterson and David Domingo (Paperback - May 2008)
Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing by Mark Briggs (Paperback - Nov 24, 2009)
Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology) by Markus Prior (Paperback - April 2, 2007)
The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values by Andrew Keen (Paperback - Aug 12, 2008)
The Living Universe by Duane Elgin
We're All Journalists Now, by Scott Gant (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Say Everything: Why Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg (2009)
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg, Regnery (2002)
Living Ethics Across Media Platforms by Michael Bugeja, Oxford University Press (2008)
Media Ethics & Accountability Systems by Claude-Jean Bertrand, Transaction Publishers (2000)
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities" by Amy Jo Kim
The New Media Monopoly by Ben Bagdikian, Beacon
Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters by Edwin C. Baker, [Cambridge]
The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting, by David Barsamian [South End]
Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy by Jeff Chester, [New Press]
Project Rewire: New Media From the Inside Out by Judy Daubenbier, ed., [William, James & Company]
Freedom of the Press: The First Amendment, its Constitutional
History and the Contemporary Debate by Garrett Epps, ed: [Prometheus]
Remaking Media: the Struggle to Democratize Public Communication by Bob Hackett and Bill Carroll, eds: [Routledge]
Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles by Bob Hackett and Yuezhi Zhao, eds: [Rowman and Littlefield]
Hand-Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media by DeeDee Halleck, [Fordham]
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins, [NYU]
Made Possible By... by James Ledbetter, James, [Verso]
Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America by Mark Lloyd, [Illinois]
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas by Robert McChesney, [Monthly Review]
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- And the President -- Failed on Iraq by Greg Mitchell, [Union Square]
People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements, by Bob Ostertag, [Beacon]
The Press by Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds, [Oxford]
Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America by Roger Streitmatter, [Columbia]