This concise handbook provides an accessible guide to the esentials of computer-assisted reporting, It gives a practical overview of database managers, spreadsheets, and the various on-line resources used to produce news stories.

Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Houston, Brant

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

An indispensable reference for students, journalists, and teachers and endorsed by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook is the most comprehensive classroom text available for courses in investigative reporting.

The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques

Reference

Weinberg, Steve

Bruzzese, Len

Words, Language & Grammar

Bedford/St.Martin's

From surfing the Internet for data to number crunching in spreadsheets and database managers, Computer-Assisted Reporting is the most practical introduction to the data analysis skills that journalists need to succeed in today’s newsrooms. This edition expands the highly-regarded basic skills instruction and offers more advice on how to write better news stories. Brant Houston’s extensive newsroom and teaching experience make this text easy to use as a core text or as a supplement in an introductory news reporting and writing course.

Computers & Technology

Published with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE), The Investigative Reporter€™s Handbook is the best-selling classroom and newsroom classic. Useful as a textbook in advanced journalism courses and as a reference for professional journalists, this book shows students how to use fundamental news reporting and writing skills like gathering sources, tracking information, and interviewing to pursue investigative stories in a variety of beats €” from the government and education to healthcare, the environment and real estate. In addition to discussing the latest techniques and challenges in the profession, the fifth edition is now thoroughly streamlined, making it easier to locate the resources that investigative reporters need to get the story.

The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

Learn how to use fundamental news reporting and writing skills, from gathering sources and tracking information, to interviewing and pursuing investigative stories on a variety of beats with the Investigative Reporter's Handbook.

Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques

History

Investigative Reporters & Eds.

World

This book provides an interesting and refreshing collection of economic research conducted in the broadly heterodox tradition. A variety of topical issues are addressed, including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability. What unites these diverse essays is their common perspective that social institutions and structures "matter" to the performance of economies, and hence should receive more attention from economists. Conventional economic thought focuses unduly on the functioning of so-called "free-markets." The persistent influence of social structures, institutions and practices - and the unequal extent to which differing social constituencies are able to exert power through those structures - often receives short shrift in this traditional research. However, this volume makes a significant contribution by helping to reverse this trend. The chapters, all written by top economists from around North America, address a range of topical issues, utilizing a rich variety of methodological techniques from empirical investigations to game theory and opinion surveys. Furthermore, the book, which is dedicated to the memory of David M. Gordon, has as its unifying theme the incorporation of structural analysis into economic science - an important goal for academics and students alike.

Power, Employment and Accumulation

Business & Money

Taylor, Lance

STANFORD, Jim

Economics

Routledge

This book provides an interesting and refreshing collection of economic research conducted in the broadly heterodox tradition. A variety of topical issues are addressed, including labor market inequalities, welfare reform, interest rate policies, international trade, and global financial instability. What unites these diverse essays is their common perspective that social institutions and structures "matter" to the performance of economies, and hence should receive more attention from economists. Conventional economic thought focuses unduly on the functioning of so-called "free-markets." The persistent influence of social structures, institutions and practices - and the unequal extent to which differing social constituencies are able to exert power through those structures - often receives short shrift in this traditional research. However, this volume makes a significant contribution by helping to reverse this trend. The chapters, all written by top economists from around North America, address a range of topical issues, utilizing a rich variety of methodological techniques from empirical investigations to game theory and opinion surveys. Furthermore, the book, which is dedicated to the memory of David M. Gordon, has as its unifying theme the incorporation of structural analysis into economic science - an important goal for academics and students alike.

Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

This straightforward and effective how-to guide provides the basics for any journalist or student beginning to use data for news stories. It has step-by-step instructions on how to do basic data analysis in journalism while addressing why these digital tools should be an integral part of reporting in the 21st century. The book pays particular attention to the need for accuracy in computer-assisted reporting and to both the potential and pitfalls in utilizing large datasets in journalism. An ideal core text for courses on data-driven journalism or computer-assisted reporting, Houston pushes back on current trends by helping current and future journalists become more accountable for the accuracy and relevance of the data they acquire and share. Online instructor's materials are available to adopting professors, and additional exercises are available free online to students at the below address: http://ire.org/carbook/ username: carbook password: carbook4

Changing Models for Journalism

In New Models for Journalism: Changing Paradigms, Brant Houston explores the deep transformation that journalism has undergone in the last decade. The text will provide journalism students with the background on the demise of traditional media in the U.S. with the loss of advertising, integrity, and audiences and the subsequent rise of bloggers, online community journalism, and investigative centers in the U.S. and globally. Houston discusses today’s changes in journalism around the world, comparing and contrasting them with those in the U.S. New model start-ups, contemporary corporate ownership and investors, and changing streams of revenue with the expansion of new technologies will be closely examined. The text also looks at the new relationship between journalism professionals and the academy, including the surge in content and stories supplied by university-based newsrooms. Houston discusses the culture clashes and ethical dilemmas in cyber environments accompanied by new challenges to maintaining credibility and creating trust. This first book to fully explore the rapid-fire changes in news media and online journalism in recent years will help prepare budding journalists for their future careers in journalism.

Americas

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Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide

The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques

Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide

The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques

Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques

Power, Employment and Accumulation

Power, Employment and Accumulation: Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy

Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide

Changing Models for Journalism

Changing Models for Journalism