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Advocacy Journalists
Edd C. Applegate
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Description for Advocacy Journalists
Hardback. This book focuses on the lives of journalists and editors who contributed to advocacy journalism. Each entry contains biographical information about the journalists, their professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: WZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors, Edd Applegate identifies the most notable figures in this field. Each entry contains biographical information about a writer or editor who either wrote advocacy journalism or edited one or more publications that featured such material. Entries consist of discussions of the journalists' lives, professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. Among those profiled here are ... Read more
In all likelihood advocacy journalism is the oldest form of reportage. It appears frequently whenever journalists desire to advocate their beliefs or ideas about major political or social problems. In Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors, Edd Applegate identifies the most notable figures in this field. Each entry contains biographical information about a writer or editor who either wrote advocacy journalism or edited one or more publications that featured such material. Entries consist of discussions of the journalists' lives, professional careers, major works, and, in some cases, commentary on those works. Among those profiled here are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810869288
SKU
V9780810869288
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99-15
About Edd C. Applegate
Edd Applegate is professor in the School of Journalism, College of Mass Communication, at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Ad Men and Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Advertising (1994) and Muckrakers: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors (Scarecrow, 2008).
Reviews for Advocacy Journalists
Applegate's book serves an important function in assembling a comprehensive list of advocacy journalists. In doing this, he is keeping many important writers and editors from being confined to the margins of journalism history.
American Journalism: A Media History Journal, Fall 2009
American Journalism: A Media History Journal, Fall 2009