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Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This work of nonfiction explores the philosophy of a new mass movement of truth-tellers; its ethics, impacts on privacy, guidelines about deception, the discovery process of litigation, and the tension between secrecy and transparency--compiled from over a decade of investigative reporting coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research that pertains to the trials and tribulations of an American Muckraker in the information age.
Author
Series
Oxford very short introductions volume 139
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only A Game, presents the essential Heinz: thirty-eight columns, profiles, and memoirs from the author’s personal archive, including eighteen pieces never collected during his lifetime. Though Heinz’s great passion was boxing...his interests extended to the wide world of sports, with indelible profiles of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, football...
4) Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex-best...
Author
Publisher
New Paige Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Today's media is all around us is unavoidable. Social media and the 24-hour news cycle has helped evolve jouranlism into an industry that often injects bias, negativity and sensationalism into it's stories in order to increase visibilty. Even worse, the general population has had a diminishing attention span, with the majority of people rarely reading beyond the headline. Have You Heard the News? gives kids a first glimpse at some of the red flags...
10) Suppression, deception, snobbery, and bias: why the press gets so much wrong--and just doesn't care
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An examination of why American journalists are out-of-touch with the rest of society.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Hindi
Description
Documentary filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh examine the inner workings of India's only independent, women-owned and operated newspaper. At the paper's helm stands Meera, the chief reporter and former member of the Dalit caste, considered by Indian culture as the lowest caste. Despite the criticisms of her male-dominated society, Meera and her colleagues strive to deliver unbiased reporting on controversial issues that affect marginalized...
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O'Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. In American Pravda, the reader is invited to go undercover with these intrepid journalists as they infiltrate...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Headlines leap out at us from mobile phones, TV screens, computers, newspapers, and everywhere we turn. Technology has opened up exciting new ways to tell interesting stories, but how much of it is news ... and how much is just noise? This refreshing and up-to-date media literacy book gives kids the tools they need to distinguish what is fact from what is fiction so that they can make smart choices about what to believe." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This title explores journalistic and fact-checking standards, Constitutional protections, and real-world case studies, helping readers identify the mechanics, perpetrators, motives, and psychology of fake news. A final chapter explores methods for assessing and avoiding the spread of fake news.
Author
Series
Blake sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman cabaret singer is fired from a teaching post after a Boston reporter fabricates a story of an affair between her and a cardinal. Lily Blake retreats to her New Hampshire hometown where John Kipling, editor of the local paper, will take revenge on the reporter and romance will follow.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jenny writes an editorial for her fourth-grade classroom newspaper urging that her beloved cat, Munchkin, become the official school cat, despite his mischievous behavior before and during a Valentine's Day pet party.
17) The project
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their parents died, Bea Denham joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She has spent the last six years of her life trying-- and failing-- to prove it. When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming...
18) Spitfire
Author
Series
Livy Nash volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's V-E Day 1946 in London. Former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis and quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column and her nights alone with black market vodka. But everything changes when she meets Ian Fleming. The man who will create the world's...
Author
Series
All four stars volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Dragged to summer camp by her friend Charissa, twelve-year-old Gladys Gatsby, an undercover restaurant reviewer for a big New York City newspaper, meets a young bestselling author and finds a way to practice her cooking and restaurant reviewing skills.
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