Reporters, editors, and journalists will find this third edition of The Reporter's Handbook an even more impressive resource than prior editions. This essential tool for serious journalists identifies hundreds of documents and human sources in both private and government sectors. It provides step-by-step methods for tracking paper trails, people trails, and computer trails. The book also includes coverage of library research, computer-assisted reporting, case studies, anecdotes, and IRE contest-winning pieces. This new edition features chapters on the environment, transportation, housing, financial institutions, international investigation, utilities, and non-profit organizations. Under the sponsorship of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., Steven Weinberg has revised and polished this journalism classic into a must-have reference guide for the classroom and the newsroom.

The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide To Documents and Techniques

Reference

Weinberg, Steve

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

St.Martin's Press

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

Houston, Brant

Bruzzese, Len

Words, Language & Grammar

Bedford/St.Martin's

An unexpurgated portrait of the life career of the enigmatic, colorful Armand Hammer speculates on the real motives behind Hammer's personal diplomacy, humanitarian efforts, deal-making, and other exploits

Armand Hammer: The Untold Story

Business & Money

Little,Brown & Co

Scott Foresman Science

Children's Books

Chamot, Anna Uhl

Cummins, Jim

Kahn, Gale Philips

Sipkovich, Vincent

Science, Nature & How It Works

Scott, Foresman Co.

How a female investigative journalist brought down the world’s greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly. Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter named Ida Minerva Tarbell (1857–1944) confronted the company known simply as “The Trust.” Through her peerless fact gathering and devastating prose, Tarbell, a muckraking reporter at McClure’s magazine, pioneered the new practice of investigative journalism. Her shocking discoveries about Standard Oil and Rockefeller led, inexorably, to a dramatic confrontation during the opening decade of the twentieth century that culminated in the landmark 1911 Supreme Court antitrust decision breaking up the monopolies and forever altering the landscape of modern American industry. Based on extensive research in the Tarbell and Rockefeller archives, Taking on the Trust is a vivid and dramatic history of the Progressive Era with powerful resonance for the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

W.W.Norton&Company

“A demonstration that . . . the power of the press to expose corruption was not to be ignored.”―Paul E. Steiger, Wall Street Journal Hailed by critics on its release, this fascinating dual biography looks at two extraordinary lives and the social history of the Progressive Era. Taking on the Trust is a grand achievement by a skilled scholar and proud defender of the ever-necessary act of political journalism.16 pages of illustrations

Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil

Biography & History

Armand Hammer: The untold story

This unauthorized biography sets out to expose the reality behind the exploits of the oil magnate and industrialist who is one of the world's richest and most powerful men. From Lenin to Gorbachev, Hoover to Bush, Gaddafi to Prince Charles, Hammer has met and influenced many world leaders. He has survived years of FBI surveillance, the accusations of the Internal Revenue Service, and the suspicions of the CIA who suspect him of being a tool of communist governments. But what have been the true motives behind his deal-making, personal diplomacy, art collecting and humanitarian efforts? This book seeks to provide the answers.

Random House Value Publishing

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Science: Grade 4

Author of his own controversial unauthorized biography of Armand Hammer, Steve Weinberg here shows how a new generation of biographers is revealing the lives of powerful individuals in dramatic and important new ways. Tracing the evolution of the craft of biography to the present day, Weinberg draws on interviews with some of today's best biographers, as well as his own experience with the Hammer biography, to highlight the careers of some of the writers whose work exploded the boundaries of traditional biography. For writers, reviewers, publishers, and general readers, Telling the Untold Story is a fascinating look at how a new kind of biographer has forever changed our expectations of the genre and continues to push biography to exciting new limits.

Telling the Untold Story: How Investigative Reporters Are Changing the Craft of Biography (Volume 1)

Literature & Fiction

University of Missouri

It might seem unlikely that a midwestern university located far from national media centers would be home to the world’s first journalism school, but the University of Missouri holds that distinction. Now celebrating its centennial, the School of Journalism, founded by a newsman who lacked a college education, is regarded as one of the highest-rated in the world.
Steve Weinberg, an alumnus and investigative reporter who returned to teach at Missouri, now covers—and uncovers—the many-faceted history of its School of Journalism, from the days of Walter Williams through the Dean Mills era. A Journalism of Humanity balances the dynamics of the university that set the school’s course with the external forces that shaped journalism and society. True to journalism, it reveals the school’s flaws as well as its virtues.
Bringing his investigative expertise to bear, Weinberg tells the school’s complex story through thematic chapters. He draws on internal documents and correspondence to uncover the politics of the school from its founding to the present—the struggles over resources as well as the constant battle to balance scholarly ambitions with professional mission. In the course of his chronicle, he depicts an institution ahead of its time in professional education but often lagging in dealing with social issues such as race and gender.
Weinberg’s account embraces faculty and staff members, students and alumni, supporters and detractors, as it covers all professional sequences taught at the school. It captures the freewheeling debate that has been a hallmark of the school and includes the perspectives of women, blacks, and gays, who all too often were marginalized. It also incorporates a wealth of insider detail, from a typical day at the school during the Williams era to tales of the “Missouri Mafia.”
Key players, significant programs, legal and ethical battles—all are covered in a candid history that makes captivating reading for those associated with the school or for anyone interested in the development of journalism education. A Journalism of Humanity is a story as big as its subject that looks back on a trailblazing century and forward toward a continuing dedication to journalistic excellence.

A Journalism of Humanity: A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School (Volume 1)

History

Americas

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