Content tagged with “journalism”

“Stroebel was a Chicago crime reporter, and he approaches his investigation to the divinity of Jesus with an analytical bent. Each chapter is an examination of one aspect of doubt, and to resolve it, he interviews one noted scholar in that field. Here are the questions, which are a good…”

“I’m struggling to figure out who this book is for. It’s well-written, interesting, and I enjoyed reading it. But I can’t figure out the intended audience. It’s a narrative discussion about…content. Digital content, specifically. There are only six chapters. The author discusses what content is, how…”

“The author of this book asked herself a question: ‘Could I become one of those ‘cork dorks’ who get obsessed about wine?’ To find this out, she spent a year studying for the Certified Sommelier Examination . (Note: this not the Master Sommelier exam, of which only about 200 people have ever passed….”

“This is a style of journalism in which the author’s opinion and perspective is injected into the story. It abandons notions of objectivity and dispassion, and tells stories from a clear perspective, often highly stylized and biased. From an article at MasterClass : Gonzo journalism is an…”

“This one was tough. It is exactly as advertised – a detailed historical account of the origins of newspapers, specifically in 14th - 18th century Europe. The problem is, that’s kinda boring. I can’t fault the author, but it’s very, very dry topic. And the book is very detailed. I’m glad I read it,…”

“An interesting book which explores how humans react to the news on an emotional/psychological level. It discusses the different types of news: political, economic, disaster, cultural, etc. and how we perceive and relate to them. Some interesting points I gathered: The true measure of news is if it…”

“Bellingcat is a ‘open source intelligence’ cooperative. It’s a group of people who surf the internet to find evidence of crimes. They made their name during the Syrian conflict. They would scour uploaded videos and compare them to Google Maps to find where they were taken. In doing so, they were…”

“Robert Caro writes a very particular type of book. He hasn’t written that many, but they were (and are) huge and detailed. He wrote a book called The Power Broker which was a 1,200 biography of the NYC city planner Robert Moses. Caro won a Pulitzer for that. He won another Pulitzer for one of the…”