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A trenchant examination of the effects of increasing conglomerate control of news and culture, by nine leading insiders and critics.

Produktbeschreibung
A trenchant examination of the effects of increasing conglomerate control of news and culture, by nine leading insiders and critics.
Autorenporträt
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. and the co-director of the Center for Media and Social Impact. She is a co-author of Conglomerates and the Media, published by The New Press. Aufderheide is also the co-author with Peter Jaszi of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago Press, July 2011), and the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She heads the Fair Use and Free Speech research project at the Center for Media and Social Impact. She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including the Preservation and Scholarship award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association, a career achievement award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association, and the Woman of Vision Award from Women in Film and Video (DC) in 2010. Aufderheide serves on the board of directors of Kartemquin Films, a leading independent social documentary production company, and and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art. She received her PhD in history from the University of Minnesota. Erik Barnouw (1908-2001) was a historian of radio and television broadcasting and a professor at Columbia University. He had a successful broadcasting career working for CBS and NBC and won the Peabody Award in 1944 for the documentary radio series Words at War. He was elected chairman of the Writer's Guild of America in 1957 and also served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Barnouw is the author of several books and a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). Richard M. Cohen is a former senior producer of the CBS Evening News. He is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). Thomas Frank is a political analyst, historian, journalist, and a columnist for Salon. He is a former columnist for Harper's Magazine and the Wall Street Journal and was the founder and editor of The Baffler. He is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). David Lieberman is the executive business editor for Deadline Hollywood where he reports on business and finance, big media, public policy, internet, and technology. Prior to joining Deadline, Lieberman was senior media reporter at USA Today. Lieberman is an adjunct professor at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business. He is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, Mark Crispin Miller, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Gene Roberts, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). Gene Roberts is a journalist and a former professor of journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He is a is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, and Thomas Shatz) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press). Thomas Shatz is the Mary Gibbs Jones Centennial Chair of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director of media studies and executive director of the University of Texas Film Institute. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and academic journals, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times , The Nation, Premiere, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, and Cineaste. Shatz is a co-author (with Patricia Aufderheide, Erik Barnouw, Richard M. Cohen, Thomas Frank, David Lieberman, Mark Crispin Miller, and Gene Roberts) of Conglomerates and the Media (The New Press).