| Advocacy Journalists: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors Contributor(s): Applegate, Edd (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810869284 ISBN-13: 9780810869288 Publisher: Scarecrow Press OUR PRICE: $97.02 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism |
| Dewey: 070.922 |
| LCCN: 2009001545 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 such notables as Ambrose Bierce, William F. Buckley Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Daniel Defoe, Germaine Greer, Pete Hamill, Karl Marx, H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Wilfrid Sheed, Gloria Steinem, and Jonathan Swift. Unlike other books that focus on the form of advocacy journalism itself or how and why it developed, this book focuses on the lives of journalists and editors and their contributions to advocacy journalism. For scholars, teachers, and students of journalism, along with general readers who wish to discover more about advocacy journalism, this volume is an important and accessible resource. |
Contributor Bio(s): Applegate, Edd: - Edd Applegate has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising and mass communications for more than 30 years. He has written extensively about advertising, including several books, numerous chapters and entries for other books and encyclopedias, and several articles for refereed academic journals and conference proceedings. |