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Orca think volume 10
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"This just in: Becoming a savvy news consumer is more important than ever! People are spending more time on the internet, where they're exposed to fake news and clickbait. And as major news events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have shown us, the spread of misinformation puts lives at risk. Breaking News: Why Media Matters explores the history of the media industry, the important role it plays today and the challenges it faces. It also gives kids the...
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"At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II -- the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred...
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The account of a Harlem drug kingpin-the basis for the Ridley Scott film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.
In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas...
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Get the Summary of Adam Nagourney's The Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Times" by Adam Nagourney chronicles the evolution of The New York Times through various executive editors' tenures, focusing on their leadership styles, the challenges they faced, and the newspaper's transformation in response to internal and external pressures. A.M. Rosenthal's era is marked by his commitment to journalistic standards...
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Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived.
Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their...
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Anglais intensif, immersion, bains linguistiques : que retenir de cette incessante discussion sur l'enseignement de l'anglais au Québec ? Décrit tantt comme la langue de lord Durham, langue qui opprime et menace, tantt comme l'outil du xxie siècle ou de l'ouverture au monde, l'anglais fait débat.
Pour y voir clair, Virginie Hébert remonte le fil des discours tenus sur l'enseignement de l'anglais au Québec depuis plus d'un siècle. Dépouillant...
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Dubbed 'the poster girl of Palestinian militancy', Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara.
In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent...
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A collection of the very best in contemporary first-person journalism compiled by the award-winning former Washington Post reporter and author.
Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The Beholder's...
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À la fin du XIXe siècle, la naissance du journal d'information et du reportage au Canada français contribue à l'émergence d'une littérature de terrain. À des kilomètres de la scénographie aventurière qui a nourri l'imaginaire du grand reporter en Occident, l'écrivain journaliste canadien-français circule sur le vaste territoire d'une population francophone éparpillée. Ce livre explore l'histoire du reportage littéraire au Québec: une...
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Una juez en zona guerrillera es el libro ganador del Premio Nacional de Cultura Universidad de Antioquia 2022 en la modalidad Testimonio. Según el jurado, "este es un testimonio que mantiene un hilo conductor y transporta bien al lector a escenarios en los que ocurren los hechos que vive su protagonista. Está narrado de una manera muy auténtica y pone al lector frente a una realidad que el país debe conocer".
A través de las memorias y la voz...
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Este nuevo libro de la periodista y editora de género María Fitzgerald presenta a los lectores distintas crónicas periodísticas sobre temas de gran coyuntura y reflexión nacional, como lo son las mutilaciones oculares en el marco del Paro Nacional de 2021, la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en las grandes ciudades capitales, los estragos de la minería ilegal y las desapariciones extrajudiciales. Tomando como protagonistas a...
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Esta es una colección de columnas del autor Moisés Wasserman, publicadas en el periódico El Tiempo de Bogotá, entre finales del año 2017 y el 2022, agrupadas en cinco capítulos que llevarán al lector en un recorrido profundo, reflexivo y ameno por distintos
temas de interés general, como la ciencia, la política y la actualidad nacional.
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El periodismo deportivo siempre ha sido considerado el patito feo de las ciencias de la información. De ahí la necesidad de un análisis completo y riguroso sobre su ética que contribuya a su profesionalización. En este ensayo novedoso, se analizan más de treinta películas y series que ofrecen ejemplos a partir de los cuales se abordan los problemas éticos inherentes a la profesión. El catálogo abarca desde clásicos de Hollywood de la talla...
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La metáfora de la cacería sirve, quién lo creyera, para explicar el periodismo. Varios periodistas notables y famosos, desde García Márquez hasta Martín Caparrós, han hecho la comparación del cazador para expresar sus experiencias y sentimientos como reporteros. Todos coinciden en que en el oficio hay instinto, intuición, pálpito, olfato, destreza. Y en que para encontrar la almendra de la historia se necesita astucia. Y también acecho,...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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"Complete freedom, nobody enjoys it: we start oppressed by syntax and end up dealing with the Police of Social and Political Order, but, within the narrow limits that grammar and law coerce us, we can still move". This quote of Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (in Memoirs of prison, 1953), also illustrates the present moment of Brazilian journalism. Among so many forms of censorship present in our days: the political and ideological (induced by the...
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El principal reto del periodismo escrito, hoy, en palabras de Juan José Hoyos, es "cómo contar la historia que los lectores han visto y oído decenas de veces ese mismo día en la televisión o en la radio. Cómo seducir, usando el lenguaje escrito, a personas que a través de otros medios han sentido con la vista y con el oído todas las complejidades de un hecho real".
Escribiendo historias: El arte y el oficio de narrar en el periodismo muestra...
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There is a famous 11th century collection of stories, folktales, legends and histories written in Sanskrit, by the Shaivite Somadeva, called the "Kathasaritsagara" or the "Oceans of the Streams of Stories". There are multiple layers of story, within a story in this amazing collection of stories. The "Kathasaritsagara", is a large collection of stories loosely strung together. The stories are narrated for the recreation and the information of the same...
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In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poison-making equipment in the cell's 'factory of death' - a shabby flat in north London. 'This danger is present and real, and with us now' announced prime minister Tony Blair.
But, when the 'Ricin plot'...
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Este libro ofrece diferentes miradas sobre la conversación, tan necesaria para la convivencia. La conversación creadora de comunidad, la conversación inclusiva, la conversación electoral en redes sociales, la conversación transmedia, la conversación en tiempos de discursos de odio, la conversación interpersonal, la conversación coloquial. Estas siete perspectivas se ahondan en facetas diversas de una práctica cultural ineludible. La variedad...
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