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Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

Ultimate Blogs
Masterworks from the Wild Web
Written by Sarah Boxer

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95

“What are you working on?”
“An anthology of blogs.”
“I didn’t know you had a blog.”
“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”
“How do you find good blogs?”
“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
“Is a good blog... Read more >

Ultimate Blogs

Written by Sarah Boxer

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $14.95

“What are you working on?”
“An anthology of blogs.”
“I didn’t know you had a blog.”
“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”
“How do you find good blogs?”
“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
“Is a good blog... Read more >

The New New Journalism
Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Written by Robert Boynton

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.

The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves... Read more >

The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
Written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $14.00

The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read

“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice is
weave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe

“Kovach... Read more >

The Kingdom and the Power
Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
Written by Gay Talese

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $18.00

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Outrage, Passion, and Uncommon Sense
How Editorial Writers Have Taken On and Helped Shape the Great American Issues o f the Past 150 Years
Written by Michael Gartner and Newseum

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $30.00

Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues and events in U.S. history through the nation's editorial pages. Approximately fifty editorials are reprinted here on topics ranging from suffrage... Read more >

The New New Journalism
Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Written by Robert Boynton

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95

Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.

The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves... Read more >

The Art of the Interview
Lessons from a Master of the Craft
Written by Lawrence Grobel

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2004
Price: $18.00

THE ULTIMATE INSIDER’S LOOK AT THE FINE ART OF INTERVIEWING

“I had a fantasy the other night that this interview is so great that they no longer want me to act—just do interviews. I thought of us going all over the world doing interviews—we’ve signed for three interviews a day for six... Read more >

War Torn
Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam
Written by Tad Bartimus, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer and Ann Mariano

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 20, 2002
Price: $14.95

For the first time, nine women who made journalism history talk candidly about their professional and deeply personal experiences as young reporters who lived, worked, and loved surrounded by war. Their stories span a decade of America’s involvement in Vietnam, from the earliest days of the conflict until the last U.S... Read more >

The Journalist's Craft
A Guide to Writing Better Stories
Edited by Dennis Jackson and John Sweeney

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2002
Price: $24.95

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The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
Written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $14.00

In July 1997, twenty-five of America's most influential journalists sat down to try and discover what had happened to their profession in the years between Watergate and Whitewater. What they knew was that the public no longer trusted the press as it once had. They were keenly aware of the pressures... Read more >