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Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1426305141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life story of this daring news reporter, globetrotter, and advocate for women's rights is presented chronologically from birth to death.
Author: Sue Macy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 1426305133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bylines is the latest title from award-winning biographer Sue Macy. Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist who lived by the belief that "Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything." This credo took her from humble origins in Cochran's Mill, Pennsylvania, a town named after her father, to the most exotic cities around the globe by the time she was 25. Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864, in an age when many women led unassuming lives. Her life would make people sit up and take notice: When she wasn't making history herself, she was writing about others who did. Rarely has anyone left a more detailed record of her place in the world than Nellie Bly. In a very public life, she shared her feelings and opinions through her writing and embraced the struggles of all classes of Americans who were fighting for their rights. The story of the two decades before and after the turn of the 20th century was her story, and she wrote with a powerful pen. Her "stunt journalism" included getting herself committed to an insane asylum for women and circling the globe in a mere 72 days. She profiled leaders from Susan B. Anthony to Eugene V. Debs, exposed corruption, and offered her readers a travelogue that expanded their horizons, even as it made the world a little smaller. Her words live on even now, and Sue Macy's masterful biography invites young readers into Nellie Bly's America, a country at a time of great growth and social change.
Author: Barbara M. Freeman
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1554580900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do so, some of them adopted conventional feminine identities, while others refused to conform altogether, openly and defiantly challenging the gender expectations of their day. The book consists of a series of case studies of the women in question as they grappled with the concerns close to their hearts: higher education for women, healthy dress reforms, the vote, equal opportunities at work, abortion, lesbianism, and Aboriginal women’s rights. Their media reflected their respective eras: intellectual magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, radio, feminist public relations, alternative women’s periodicals, and documentary film made for television. Barbara Freeman takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining biography, history, and communication studies to demonstrate how their use of different media both enabled and limited these women in their ability to be daring advocates for gender equality. She shows how a number of these women were linked through the generations by their memberships in activist women’s organizations.
Author: Clyde H. Farnsworth
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0826273742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This memoir of father and son journalists—both named Clyde Farnsworth—draws on the unfinished autobiography of the author’s father. Largely biographical, this book can be read as a panoramic history of American newspaper journalism in the twentieth-century, covering Prohibition gangs, prison fires, and botched executions in the 1920s and 1930s, to global war, the shaping of postwar Europe and Asia, and America’s emergence from the Cold War. Tangled Bylines includes off-beat encounters with Amelia Earhart, Douglas MacArthur, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, and Simon Wiesenthal.
Author: Harvey Currell
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2009-08-10
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1426910479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Besides holding down a full-time editor's job on a big city daily newspaper, Harvey Currell used his spare time for 49 years at the work he loved best-combing the byways and backwoods of Ontario-and infrequently even England and the eastern U.S.-in search of fascinating destinations never discovered by travelers who stick to the superhighways. Every week he distilled his adventures into a Trips column-from 1958 to 1971 for The Toronto Telegram and from 1971 to 2007 for The Toronto Sun. On many of his early expeditions he had two eager passengers, his young daughter and son. They would listen carefully as Harvey interviewed foresters, naturalists, archaeologists, farmers, conservation officers, potters, woodcarvers, trappers, glass blowers, gliders, cabinet makers and dozens of other specialists in many fields. At the conclusion of Harvey's interview, the kids would take over and ask their own questions. Often they would make notes to share their information at school the following week, sometimes before Dad's story had appeared in the paper. Newspaper readers clipped and saved the columns, sometimes for years, before going on the trips. In Byways and Bylines, Harvey recreates 32 memorable trips while sharing his own life story.
Author: Susan E. Wiant
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0823233014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Intro -- contents -- foreword -- preface -- acknowledgments -- prologue -- glossary -- index.
Author: Asim Qureshi
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1789650763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘I hope that this short thought provoking meditation on rightful responses to injustice will trigger a societal discussion for the conscience and future of liberal democracies.’ Marc Sageman, former CIA officer ‘I find Qureshi’s personal tone profound and loud, and it does what all good works of politics and anti-racism should. It makes visible the most intimate ways white power impacts us, destroy us, and has us dream about our futures.’ Yassir Morsi, author of Radical Skin, Moderate Masks ‘Drawing on an extraordinary range of influences that includes Primo Levi, Tupac Shakur, fourteenth century Islamic jurists and the Qu’ran, Qureshi weaves a moving account of his personal political journey through the horrors of the early 21st century into an inspirational call for racial and political justice and critical Islamic scholarship.’ Matthew Carr, author of Blood & Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain In this new work of political philosophy, Asim Qureshi reflects on injustice he sees in the world around him. Covering issues from torture and extrajudicial killings, to racism and discrimination, A Virtue of Disobedience takes the reader on a journey through the history of oppression, and begins a conversation about how previous acts of resistance and disobedience, through faith and virtue, can be liberating in the range of contemporary issues communities face today.
Author: Joseph B. Cumming
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 144902310X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Bylines," the book, collects the best of Cumming's freelance writing over a 34-year period. Cumming published these articles and columns in national magazines, such as Esquire, and in local newspapers. A foreword is by his son Doug Cumming, Ph.D., a journalism professor at Washington & Lee University.
Author: Barbara M. Freeman
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2011-12-14
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1554583136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do so, some of them adopted conventional feminine identities, while others refused to conform altogether, openly and defiantly challenging the gender expectations of their day. The book consists of a series of case studies of the women in question as they grappled with the concerns close to their hearts: higher education for women, healthy dress reforms, the vote, equal opportunities at work, abortion, lesbianism, and Aboriginal women’s rights. Their media reflected their respective eras: intellectual magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, radio, feminist public relations, alternative women’s periodicals, and documentary film made for television. Barbara Freeman takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining biography, history, and communication studies to demonstrate how their use of different media both enabled and limited these women in their ability to be daring advocates for gender equality. She shows how a number of these women were linked through the generations by their memberships in activist women’s organizations.
Author: Merrin Taylor
Publisher: Merrin Taylor
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perfect for fans of Emma Lord and Jenn Bennett! When twenty-four year old junior reporter Ava Thompson is offered an undercover investigative role, she jumps at the chance. Enrolling at a Manhattan private school to find the source of an embezzlement scheme sounds simple enough. With the potential to be a front page article, this could be the big break Ava’s been waiting for! But posing as a high school senior proves to be more than Ava signed up for when she meets brooding English teacher, Nico Adams. There’s an inexplicable something between them that must be ignored, but demands to be felt. Try as they might to avoid one another, Ava and Nico are drawn together time and again. When Ava’s editor-in-chief discovers their clandestine connection and makes Nico her assignment, Ava must choose between the job she’s always dreamed of and the love she thought she never wanted. Content trigger warning: sexual harassment in chapter 20.
