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The Entrepreneurial Journalist's Toolkit
Today’s journalism and communication students need the tools to develop and maintain their own media businesses and freelance careers. In addition to mastering the basics of converged journalism practice, they need training in business entrepreneurship, mass communication and business law, and career and reputation management. The Entrepreneurial Journalist's Toolkit provides a solid foundation of multimedia journalism and also teaches readers to create solid business plans and develop funding proposals while maintaining high legal and ethical standards. This book details the process of pitching and working with clients, managing multi-platform communication campaigns to maximize reach, keeping the books, and filing taxes. It is provides everything a new or experienced journalist needs to get started as a media entrepreneur.
Communication and Community in the New Media Age
This book investigates the relationship between information communication and community development in China in the new media age, drawing on theoretical resources from journalism, communication, urban sociology, community management, and the activities of social movements. Contrasting existing scholarship that centers on new technologies and virtual aspects of today’s communication, the study highlights community residents’ daily praxis in real social spaces and the interaction between online and offline communications. Through content analysis, case studies, questionnaire surveys, and in-depth interviews, the author explores the social engagement of communication in public expressions and negotiations among Chinese urban communities. From micro, meso, and macro levels respectively, three interactive mechanisms are discussed: (1) media use and social consciousness and mobilization; (2) new media and changes in community governance; and (3) state-community interplay. Based on these mechanisms, the author proposes the idea of “the construction of grassroots social communication”, exploring approaches to the modernization of social governance and attainment of social interests by optimizing information communication. Communication and Community in the New Media Age will appeal to academics and students studying communication and social transition in China, new media and society, urban sociology, and public governance.
The Watchmen
Adam Tanner never expected running for a local school board seat to become a fight for his life. For years, parents and grandparents across the country have watched with growing frustration as public education descends into conflict, secrecy, and political power struggles. Adam Tanner decides he has had enough. Determined to bring accountability and transparency to his community’s schools, he launches a campaign for the San Diego City School Board, promising to challenge the entrenched system and put students and families first. But powerful interests are determined to stop him. Before he can even reach the voters, Tanner is kidnapped at Washington’s Dulles Airport and transported far from civilization, abandoned in the unforgiving wilderness of the Allegheny Mountains. Badly injured and struggling to survive raging storms, wildfire, and dangerous wildlife, Tanner’s only hope lies in staying alive long enough to return home before election day. Meanwhile, retired U.S. black operations specialist Ivan Samsonoff begins searching for the missing candidate. What he discovers shocks him. Tanner’s kidnapping is not a random act of violence but part of a carefully orchestrated plot involving foreign operatives, covert intelligence networks, and powerful figures determined to control the outcome of a seemingly small local election. As the conspiracy unfolds, Samsonoff realizes the stakes are far greater than a school board race. With time running out and assassins closing in, Tanner must survive the wilderness and expose the forces trying to silence him. If he fails, the truth about what is happening inside America’s public school system may never be heard. The Watchmen is a gripping political thriller that blends action, espionage, and contemporary debate about the future of American education. It is a cautionary tale for parents, grandparents, educators, and citizens who believe that the fight for the nation’s schools is far from over.