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(Penn State University, USA)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 164x122x18 mm, weight: 170 g
  • Serija: Object Lessons
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-May-2024
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • ISBN-10: 1501392174
  • ISBN-13: 9781501392177
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 164x122x18 mm, weight: 170 g
  • Serija: Object Lessons
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-May-2024
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • ISBN-10: 1501392174
  • ISBN-13: 9781501392177
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"Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. From censorship and the intentional destruction of the historic record to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, this is the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. Journalist Maggie Messitt covers the 400-year history of an almost-endangered object in 100 vignettes, sharing her own journey as an advocate for the newspaper's transformation and survival in the United States and South Africa, two democratic nations she's called home. A reflection on the past and present, Newspaper spotlights those who seek to prevent its extinction"--

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account.

This is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object as seen by journalist Maggie Messitt in the two democratic nations she calls home – the United States and South Africa.

The “first draft of history,” newspapers figure prominently through each movement and period of unrest in both nations-from the first colonial papers published by slave traders and an advocate for press freedom to those published on id cards, wallpaper, and folio sheets during civil wars. Offices were set on fire. Presses were pushed into bodies of water. Editors were run out of town. And journalists were arrested.

Newspaper reflects on a tool that has been used to push down and to rise up, and a journey alongside the hidden lives that have harnessed its power.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Recenzijos

Using vignettes from her homes in both the United States and South Africa, Messitt covers how newspapers enabled a multitude of voices to spread their messages Ultimately, Messitts work reveals that from Fredrick Douglas to George Floyd, newspapers serve as not only the first draft of history but also a compelling outlet for historical, discursive analysis. * Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education * This book is an unusual, imaginative braiding together of two countries the United States and South Africa and two streams of history: the growth of democracy, and the growth of a probing, vibrant, defiant press. Maggie Messitt has a fine eye for the telling detail, the shocking fact, the unsung hero or heroine. * Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracys Forgotten Crisis (2022) * In these very challenging times all over the world, we need works like those featured in Maggie Messitt's Newspaper, for they give me and will surely give other readers the hope we all need to keep on keepin' on! * Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives (2022) * Messitts work reveals that from Fredrick Douglas to George Floyd, newspapers serve as not only the first draft of history but also a compelling outlet for historical, discursive analysis." * Tribal College Journal *

Daugiau informacijos

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.
Newspaper 120 segments

Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Index
Maggie Messitt 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. Maggie Messitt is Norman Eberly Professor of Practice and Director of the News Lab at Penn State University, USA