Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns - Couverture souple

Muller, Judy

 
9780803243743: Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 080324374X ISBN 13 : 9780803243743
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

Synopsis

At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in Egnar, award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving, but thriving. In these small towns, stories can range from club news to Klan news, from broken treaties to broken hearts, from banned books to escaped emus; they document the births, deaths, crimes, sports, and local shenanigans that might seem to matter only to those who live there. And yet, as this book shows us, these "little" stories create a mosaic of American life that tells us a great deal about who we are--what moves us, angers us, amuses us. Filled with characters both quirky and courageous, the book is a heartening reminder that there is a different kind of "bottom line" in the hearts of journalists who keep churning out good stories, week after week, for the corniest of reasons: that our freedoms depend on it.

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À propos de l?auteur

Judy Muller is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and is the author of Now This: Radio, Television, and the Real World. She is also an NPR commentator and has worked as a correspondent for ABC, CBS, and PBS, winning numerous Emmy awards and, in 2010, the prestigious Peabody Award.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080324374X
ISBN 13 
9780803243743
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780803230163: Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0803230168 ISBN 13 :  9780803230163
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2011
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