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Los Angeles.: General Publishing Group., 1993. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket. Jacket has surface blemishing including packing knife errors.. 1 Black paper over boards. Silver spine titles. Audience: General/trade. American innovative CBS broadcast television news history.

Boston MA.: G. K. Hall & Co. by arr. w/ G.P. Putnam's Sons., 1987. Large type / large print.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has light wear to spine ends, corners. Minor smoke residue to jacket edges; not nicotine, no odor. Clean book volume.. Loew, Anthony (jacket color photo by).. 1 Black cloth, gray paper over boards. 335 p. 24 cm. Silver spine titles. Audience: General/trade. Television and broadcast journalist Linda Ellerbee worked for Associated Press in Dallas, KHOU-TV in Houston, and WCBS-TV in New York before joining NBC News in 1975. Her "beat" has included politics to pop culture to co-anchoring three news shows. This memoir is presented with "wit, style and disarming candor", from front jacket flap. A "no holds barred" account. She quips, "There were no journalists in my family in Texas, they all worked for a living".

New York: Fawcett, 1975. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 208 p.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday & Company., 1979. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 1 445 p. Maroon vinyl-type cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. B&W Photo Plate Sections. 22 cm. Timeline highlights: 1930-1978; Photo Credits; Index. Considered a landmark memoir, it is the first by a giant of communications media. Paley bought CBS, a small company called United Independent Broadcasting. Soon he was developing an empire. He "discovered" new talent for radio, then lured other established stars. His memoir chronicles an era, not just his business growth.

HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. Reprint.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner.. 0 316p. Urban life: a comedy of manners for our time. Based on columns in the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper.

Random House Large Print Publishing, 2003. Large type / Large print.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ water damage top rear.. 0 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Brinkley spent much of the 20th century covering events in Washington DC for the media. This "richly entertaining roundup of extraordinary individuals" (DJ notes) against a backdrop of headlining events makes for an interesting read.

New York.: Barricade Books., 1994. First edition. 1st printing, stated.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Top page block light soiling. Tight. Clean otherwise.. 1 Cloth and paper over boards. 239 p. B&W photo plate sections. Index. Audience: General/trade. Autobiography / Entertainment: Television and radio personality Allen Funt began his career on radio in 1947 with Candid Microphone. A year later, his Candid Camera was the first of the A.B.C. network's television shows, with ordinary people becoming the surprise stars. Later, the show found spots on all three major network schedules, became a feature film and was formatted in other media. The tag line, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera! " became part of the culture. Here is Funt's own candid history behind his friendly prank media show.

New York.: Pocket Books., 1966. Trade paperback. Good. Cover wear, lower creasing. Clean pages.. 1 128 p. Trade paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Journalism Essays: Vietnam, Mao Tse-tung, Lyndon Johnson, Charles de Gaulle, Civil Rights, The "New" Russia. Cover subtitle: "Chet Huntley clarifies and organizes the complex chaos of current world happenings, placing them in historical perspective and showing how they affect every American". Broadcast news correspondent Huntley of N.B.C. in New York was anchorman for the "Huntley-Brinkley Report", as well as anchoring 2 1960s conventions and election coverage, plus N.B.C. News Specials.

Dubuque IA.: W. C. Brown., 1969. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. 1 ed and tan cloth over boards. Black titles. xv, 212 p. 29 cm. Journalism series. Includes Illustrations. For print journalists; page design, newspaper elements; etc. Here are the basics to apply also to electronic design. Bibliography: p. 207-208.

Pocket Books, 1945. #158. 17th printing since June 1942. Wartime edition.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edge wear and soiling. Inside front cover lower small crease. Tight. Square.. 0 192 p. Color cover illustration: urban night scene, neon lights, taxi, no credit found. Red endpapers & edges. White titles. Cover: "Biographer of Broadway", front; "Master of the Main Stem", back. 14 Short Essays by a premier reporter, many from his view from Lindy's Diner.

New York.: Thomas Y Crowell., 1987. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Normal library wear from small town New Hampshire collection.. 1 Library binding. Sturdy illustrated paper over boards. 32 p. Horizontal format, 9x7in. Colorful Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Children's picture story about how newspapers happen, a day in the life of a typical small city daily. Gibbons did her research at The Valley News in West Lebanon NH, and The Times Argus in Barre VT, as well as with Leo Stocker of the UPI (United Press International). Both computers and typewriters are pictured, but the composing room is all paste-up, where typeset stories are pasted into column widths on a layout board angling above waist level. Digital clock boxes are on each page section, marking time left from 6: 45 a.m. till 1: 02 p.m. when the papers are delivered to readers. The last page offers: Newspapers then and now.

Dell Publishing Company, 1987. First edition. 1st Dell printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very goodCorner wear minor on front; back upper corner clipped. Clean inside. Smooth spine.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 212p. Fiction: On arrival, new owners at The Capital Register & Press were not satisfied with the newspaper's lead story about the Garden Club election. Reporter Robert Wartovsky was given an ultimatum: turn an item about dog poop on the Governor's shoes into a hot headline like "Gov Knee-Deep into Something Smelly? " This newsroom insightful satire was created by a veteran Washington correspondent. Enjoy the romp.

New York.: A Fawcett Crest Book by arr. w/ G P Putnam's Sons., 1969. Unabridged.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 254 p. Newspaper columnist Art Buchwald with his "biting, bubbling protest" (from back cover). His work is a treasure trove for social historians and those who need to put Washington D.C. in perspective with a bit of hilarity. This collection includes urban crises, student rebellion, racial strife, Spiro T Agnew.

Delta, 2005. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 324p. Fast-paced, sharp-witted debut novel. "This book is based, casually, on our lives. Some of it is even true, " note before 2nd title page. A Jewish girl from Brooklyn and an Irish lad from Queens meet in the news reporting arena, and later, marry; hence, a look into worlds of modern love and journalism.

New York.: Fawcett Crest., 1975. First edition. Fawcett Crest Edition. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean interior. Age-toning.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. In the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, satirist and syndicated news columnist Art Buchwald had two years worth of funny stuff to impart since the night of the Watergate break-in by Nixon's team of serious-minded goofballs. Here are some "grim fairy tales" and other masterworks.

Boston: The Globe Newspaper Company, 1941. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Tight. Unmarked. Clean, save for a few front cover surface blemishes to visible on angle.. 0 160 p. Navy blue cloth-covered boards. Silver front cover title. Sturdy, high quality paper. Acknowlegment: "Twenty of the 34 reprints from the 1940 editions of the Boston Globe appearing in this book were written by members of the staff of the Globe, " back page. The remaining originated in other publications and were syndicated; permissions granted for this reprint. Great general interest news and feature editorial columns of 1940, regionally and nationally.

Random House., 1959. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. MInor edge age-toning to book; Clean inside; Minor wear to jacket.. 1 334 p. Includes index. Black cloth over boards. 4/59 on jacket flap. Newspaperman Kent Cooper (1880-1965), having conceived during the early 20th century of news delivery to newsrooms by telephone, was hired away from United Press by Associated Press in 1910, rising to executive director in 1943. He had conceived in 1926, and established in 1935, the AP Wirephoto system, and AP's world news service in 1938. These advances changed how and when news of World War II, for instance, reached the home fronts, with AP news writers and photographers around the world. Cooper's career at AP continued until his retirement. His influence was widespread. Enclosed are letters / notes from Cooper to Rowland Rand who began at AP with him in 1911, according to a carbon copy of a letter Rand wrote tahnking Cooper for sending him this book. There is also a… Read More

Random House, 1995. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 0 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 318 p. Audience: General/trade.

Quill / William Morrow., 1999. 1st Quill edition, 1st printing. 1997 copyright NYTimes Company.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Slight shelf wear.. 1 First edition. Trade paperback (US). 6x9in. Glued binding. 432 p. Audience: General/trade. Anthology of lives lived, 100 NY Times obituary notices selected among thousands, 1980-1997: Jimmy Keyes; Russell Colley; Anne Scheiber; John H Finley Jr; Edward Lowe; Frank D Gallion; Elizabeth Paepcke; Richard Loo; Sylvia Weinberger; Hamilton E Holmes; Barbara McClintock; Joseph Mitchell; Orville Redenbacher; Coya Knutson; Meyer Michael Greenberg; Berta Scharrer; Steven Slepack; Reuben Mattus; Douglas Corrigan; James W Rouse; Stanley Adelman; Margaret G Cahill; Fred Lebow; Thyra Johnston; Jeffrey Schmalz; Richard Berry; Martin Bucksbaum; Max H Karl; Rudolf Walter Wanderone; Willie Mosconi; Arnold Neustadter; William A Shea; Sam Lopata; Thomas S Kuhn; Immaculata Cuomo; Johnny Sylvester; Allan G Odell; Amos Tversky; Angel Wallenda; Jerry Siegel;… Read More

Touchstone Books / Simon & Schuster., 1998. First edition. 1st Touchstone printing.. Trade paperback. New. Remainder mark, top.. 1 Trade paperback, 7.5x9.25in. Glued binding. 272 p. B&W photos, facsimile illustrations. Audience: General/trade. This collection was first a local theater play in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and a collaboration among 10 participants. Historic themes are illustrated with letters published originally in the Press Enterprise of Bloomburg, and in the Danville News of nearby Danville. Storylines were supplemented by old postcards, photos, obituaries, and historic memorabilia as the story of one town and its people came together, often over specific issues of concern, 1790-1990, give or take.