Newspaper (Object Lessons) - Softcover

Buch 89 von 103: Object Lessons

Messitt, Dr. Maggie

 
9781501392177: Newspaper (Object Lessons)

Inhaltsangabe

The 400-year story of the newspaper - as an object and disseminator of information, a critical component of democracy, and an agent of suppression - told through the part it played in the formation and development of the two nations journalist Maggie Messitt calls home: South Africa and the United States.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maggie Messitt is Norman Eberly Professor of Practice and Director of the News Lab at Penn State University, USA. She is the author of The Rainy Season, long-listed for the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in South Africa, where Messitt lived and worked as an independent journalist for 8 years. A dual-citizen, she was the founder of Amazwi, a rural non-profit media organization that trained woman journalists, and publisher of its award-winning newspaper, The Villager. She would later become the founding national director of Report for America, a national service program that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country, addressing critical coverage gaps and the changing landscape of local news.

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