Periodismo

Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies.
This innovative book draws together the work of seventeen writers to show that, starting in the 1641s during the English Civil War, and continuing through to the present time, humor has indeed been an important ingredient of journalism. Countries studied include Australia, Britain, Canada, Chile and the United States. The Funniest Pages is divided into four sections: «Seriously Funny, From Past to Present,» «Unsolemn Columnists,» «This Sporting Life» and a final section, «Have Mouse, Will Laugh,» which looks at humor in online journalism. Chapters examine Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and the birth of social and political satire; Allen Ginsberg, Mad magazine, and the culture wars of the 1950s; John Clarke and the power of satire in journalism, and more.

As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and shape our ever-changing life span position. And while the «life span» can be conceived as a continuum, it is also one hinged by critical junctures and bound by cultural differences that can be better understood through communication.
The chapters in this collection, chosen from among the invited plenary speakers, top research papers, and ideas discussed in San Juan, explore the multiple ways communication affects, reflects, and directs our life transition. Capturing the richness and diversity of scholarship presented at the conference, chapters explore communication technologies that define a generation; communication and successful aging; stereotyping and family communication; sexual communication and physiological measurement; life span communication and the digital divide; and home-based care contexts across the world, among others.

The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.

¿Cómo se definen los papeles del periodismo político y la comunicación política en la «trinchera comunicativa» de las democracias modernas? ¿Es el periodismo político un área especializada del periodismo? ¿Qué tiene de especial la relación del periodista político con sus fuentes? ¿Cuáles son sus valores profesionales y sus rutinas de trabajo? El periodista Salvador Enguix revisa el discurso académico sobre estas y otras cuestiones, proponiendo su relectura a la luz de su ejercicio profesional. El libro ofrece por primera vez una visión global de esta especialización periodística, integrando aspectos como las esferas informativas del periodismo político, su relación con los distintos modelos teóricos de democracia, la relación entre el periodista y sus fuentes, los valores deontológicos y las rutinas productivas así como los cambios dinámicos que imponen las tecnologías digitales.

With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media's appetite for shocking, sensational, and tragic stories has always resulted in over-coverage of terrorist events and threats. But today, social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, allow terrorists to communicate directly with huge audiences around the globe spreading their propaganda, radicalizing and recruiting followers, and providing know-how to "lone wolves." On the other hand, governments in democracies, too, utilize mass media to enlist public support for counterterrorist measures. This volume will help readers to understand the centrality of media considerations in both terrorism and counterterrorism.

Modernisation becomes a hegemonic ideology in Chinese society, while China faces enormous environmental problems. Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China argues that investigative journalism has constructed a discourse of environmental risk that is in contrast with the discourse of modernisation encouraged by Chinese governments for over half a century. By constructing the discourse of environmental risk, investigative journalism exposes the true nature of modernisation on the one hand, and on the other hand, it reveals the connection between social and environmental injustice and inequality. The bifurcation between the two discourses reflects the rift between environment and modernisation as well as the divergence between people and the state. Investigative journalism demonstrates a counter-hegemonic force against the hegemonic discourse of modernisation to a certain extent. The book starts with an overview of the relationship between the emergence of environmental problems and China's modernisation and focuses on the agendas and practices of environmental investigative journalism, the discourse of environmental risk and the challenges and chances offered by the Internet.

Empresas como Cisco, Intel, Microsoft y Oracle tienen sus propias "salas de prensa". Maersk, la empresa de transporte naviero, tiene un sistema de noticias creado por ella misma. También lo tiene Nissan, fabricante japonés de vehículos. LinkedIn tiene un jefe de redacción. GE también tiene uno. Tres firmas de capital de riesgo de Silicon Valley –Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz y Battery Ventures– contrataron a periodistas provenientes de The Wall Street Journal, Wired y Forbes, respectivamente.
¿Por qué las empresas están contratando periodistas y creando sus propios medios de comunicación? La respuesta tiene nombre propio:
Periodismo de Marca o Brand Journalism, como se le conoció originalmente. Se trata de una tendencia creciente y en la que si usted es director ejecutivo o director de marketing de una marca mediana o grande, seguramente debiera empezar a pensar -si es que ya no lo ha hecho.
El objetivo de estas lineas es ayudarle a descubrir cómo hacerlo, le ayudaremos a estructurar un equipo y descubrir qué obstáculos se le pueden presentar y cómo superarlos.
Dele la bienvenida a esta nueva forma de comunicarse y llegar a los usuarios.

En la época de internet y las redes sociales, cuando acceder a la información es tan sencillo, existe el peligro de que el conocimiento acabe banalizándose en aras de la inmediatez y el impacto mediático. En este contexto social y cultural, polarizado entre la globalización y la excesiva especialización, la labor del periodismo divulgativo resulta imprescindible.
Este libro es un incisivo ensayo sobre el papel del periodismo en la difusión del saber y el progreso de las ciencias. Con la experiencia y la autoridad que le confieren sus casi cuarenta años de ejercicio profesional, Vladimir de Semir ofrece una lúcida reflexión sobre el periodismo científico y el influjo que ejerce en la sociedad. Una sociedad fragmentada y culturalmente atomizada, en la que solo los buenos profesionales serán capaces de orientar a la opinión pública y de velar por la veracidad de la información que se difunde en los medios. Hoy más que nunca, necesitamos fomentar el rigor de una cultura científica, algo a todas luces esencial para la construcción de una auténtica sociedad del conocimiento.
«Los descubrimientos científicos no son simplemente descubrimientos,
sino que articulan un nuevo tipo de discurso en el área del poder y en las
formas de conocimiento.» Michel Foucault
«Adquirir el conocimiento y el saber necesarios para comprender las revelaciones científicas del siglo xx será el reto más profundo del siglo xxi.» Carl Sagan

With most of the world's population living in states that have begun the process of democratisation, Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies examines the critical interface between the news media and the state in these countries. What is the media's role in the democratisation process? And how does the state intervene in, co-opt or prescribe the national discourse? Using a series of case studies, including South Africa and the People's Republic of China, this original work proposes a new framework for understanding media-state relations in the world's emerging democracies. Bringing together a wide range of knowledge and literature from multiple disciplines together with personal insights and experiences gained during his career in global political journalism, Adrian Hadland explodes some of the myths of current thinking about the media and democracy and looks ahead to the role journalism ought to be playing in the 21st century.

Technology has disrupted the news industry– its relationships, forms, and business models – but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism. Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News is a creative, thought-provoking and entertaining exploration of the possible future(s) of news by Professor Jeff Jarvis, who leads the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

To Jarvis, journalism helps a community better organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself: “But we in the field came to define ourselves less by our value and mission and more by our media and tools — ink on pulp or slick paper, sound or images over airwaves. Now we have new tools to exploit. Those tools require new skills and create new value. But at the core, we serve citizens and communities.” He offers not a single definitivefuture of journalism and news, but a range of possibilities depending on how journalists and journalism evolve – with the help of the “geeks” whose advances in media technology offer many opportunities for journalists and media entrepreneurs who are willing to think creatively and take risks.