Recommended Reading List
Hello, and welcome to the Washington Journalism and Media Conference (WJMC) reading list. This list is not exhaustive, but just a taste of books, news articles and blogs related to some of the topics we will cover. These are just suggestions, and it is not mandatory to read this material. If you have any suggestions for additional readings or have difficulty accessing an item please contact us at [email protected] or (703) 993-5010 and we will see you July 16!
Happy Reading! Elena Johnson WJMC Program Director
Allen, Jonathan and Parnes, Amie
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign Deckle Edge, 2017. ISBN 9780553447088
Anderson, Sulome
The Hostage’s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. ISBN 978-0-06-238549-9.
Anderson, Terry
Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph Ballantine Books, 1995. ISBN-10: 0345467928.
Borri, Francesca
Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War. Pengin Random House Publisher Services, 2016.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
Attacks on the Press: The New Face of Censorship 1st Edition John Wiley & Sons, 2017. ISBN 978-1119361008
Dickerson, John
Whistlestop: My Favorite Stories from Presidential Campaign History Hachette Book Group, 2016. ISBN 1455569453
Frantzich, Stephen E.
Founding Father: How C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb Changed Politics in America.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. ISBN-10: 074255809.
Kovach, Bill & Rosenstiel, Tom
The Elements of Journalism. Three Rivers Press, 2014, ISBN-0804136785.
Lamb, Brian and CSPAN
Sundays at Eight: 25 Years of Stories from CSPANS Q&A and Booknotes. Public Affairs, 2014, ISBN-978-1-61039-348-5.
Paul Marsden
Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to go it alone and launch your dream digital project Routledge, 2017. ISBN 978-1138190368
McGrath Morris, James
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press Amistad, 2015. ISBN-10: 0062198858
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Perino, Dana
And the Good News Is...: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side Twelve, 2015. ISBN-10: 1455584908
Ponce de Leon, Charles L.
That’s the Way It Is: A History of Televisions News in America University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0226472450
Roggenkamp, Karen
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business. Kent State University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1606352878
Rubin, Cyma
Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 0393322823
Ryan, April
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015. ISBN: 1442238410
Stone, Roger
The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 9781510726925
Smith, Vivian
Outsiders Still: Why Women Journalists Love - and Leave - Their Newspaper Careers University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2015. ISBN-10: 1442627956
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Weller, Sheila
The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour – and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News. Penguin Books, ISBN- 0143127772.
Articles, Websites, Blogs, Columns
Predictions for Journalism 2017 http://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2017
The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes. http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2017
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, “The State of the News Media, 2016: An Annual Report on American Journalism.” http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/state-of-the-news-media-2016/
Tom Jackman “True Crime” https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tom-jackman/?utm_term=.3845ca3eadad
Reliable Sources http://www.cnn.com/shows/reliable-sources
Politico On Media: Where Politics Meet the Press http://www.politico.com/blogs/media
The News Literacy Project http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org
Solutions Journalism http://solutionsjournalism.org
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