New & Recently Published/Recommended Books

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K-12 Texts
   

 Other general recommendations

			January 2010
October 2008	The Man Who Owns the News Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch			Free download
		Developing Scientific Literacy: Using News Media In The Classroom Open University Press
	Consider the Source A Critical Guide to the 100 Most Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web	THE DEATH OF MEDIA: And the Fight to Save  Democracy  by Danny Schechter ISBN: 0-9766583-6-4	It's Not News, It's Fark	Publisher; May 2007
News Improved How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change (excerpts)	The Best Political Cartoons of the Year	Bad News : The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News,  and the Danger  to Us All         Regan Books ISBN: 0060797460	The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2006 Edition!	click book for details Interview with Jeff Cohen
Trends in Newsrooms 2006	Outrage, Passion, Uncommon Sense- How Editorial Writers Have Taken On The Great American Issues of the Past 100 Years National Geographic Books	Using Newspapers In The Classroom Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521645263	Hard News: The Scandals at the New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media Random House ISBN: 1400062446	News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated ISBN: 0787972851
Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News Oxford Univ.Press ISBN: 0195161408 Website	Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism Robert McChesney Ben Scott	Breach of Faith:   A Crisis of Coverage in the  Age of Corporate Newspapering Gene Roberts,  Thomas Kunkel  University of Arkansas Press;  ISBN: 1557287287 November 2002	Edward R. Murrow And the Birth of Broadcast Journalism, by Bob Edwards ISBN: 0471477532 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Review   Excerpt	Publisher: Basic Books;  (February 4, 2003) ISBN: 0465001769 Book website Read Chapter One
Reporting America  At War (PBS series companion) Publisher: Hyperion ISBN: 140130072	The News About The News: American Journalism In Peril Read Chapter One   Excerpt: Anchors See Diminished Role

Scholastic journalism catalogs:  Journalism Education Assn; The Writing Company