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African Women Fight Press Brutality
Southern African media systemically ignore or victimize women, argues a persuasive and practical guide to changing the system.
From allAfrica.com, 9 July 2001.
> also about: South Africa, Africa, Credibility/Accuracy, Cultural Impacts, Diversity, News Coverage, Newspapers

Classic Parody
The court battle over "The Wind Done Gone," an African-American retelling of "Gone With The Wind," stirs debate over cultural heritage, copyright and the purposes of parody.
From Arts Wire Current, 29 June 2001.
> also about: United States, Freedom of Expression, Policy/Law

Writing The World
Ryszard Kapuscinski's new book on Africa illuminates the differences between "reporting" (gathering facts) and "reportage" (witnessing) through the work of a man who has done both, with extraordinary skill, for 40 years.
From Guardian Unlimited, 3 June 2001.
> also about: Poland, Africa, News Coverage, Personalities

Erotic And Outspoken
Phil Abbot interviews Alina Reyes, France's self-described "first" female writer of erotica, on sex, art, love, pornography and political correctness.
From Freezerbox Magazine, 31 May 2001.
> also about: France, Cultural Impacts

Critical Thought In Public Life
Dissident intellectual voices can break through monopoly media via the Internet and the alternative press, says Edward Said. And in the interests of peace and social justice, he urges, they must.
From The Age, 21 May 2001.
> also about: Cultural Impacts

Market Forces Vs. Serious Journalism
Profit-at-all costs. Trivia and tragedy. Investigative journalism versus the "newsamuse" business. In recent books Pierre Bourdieu, Arthur E. Rowse, and Bruce W. Sanford, all respected observers of media and politics, contest the inevitability of the bottom line.
From The Media Channel, 28 March 2001.
> also about: France, United States, Europe, North America, Audience, Business, Credibility/Accuracy, News Coverage, Newspapers Television

Dead Dot-Coms?
Michael Wolff, media columnist for New York magazine, weighs in on the AOL-Time Warner merger, e-books, the future of the Internet and succeeding (and failing) in media.
From IWantMedia.com, 1 February 2001.
> also about: Advertising/Commerce, Business, Personalities, Multimedia/Internet

Malaysia's Press Freedom Fighter
Malaysia's 1961 journalists' uprising was the only one of its kind, recalls the new memoir of Said Zahari, who was chief editor of the striking paper and a political prisoner for 16 years after.
From Think Centre, 18 January 2001.
> also about: Malaysia, Asia and the Pacific, Activism, Freedom of Expression, Labor, Politics, Newspapers

A Journalist In Africa
Mary Kay Magistad reviews "Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda," Scott Peterson's account of his years covering East Africa as a journalist and photographer.
From BlueEar.com, 7 January 2001.
> also about: Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Africa, East Africa, News Coverage

Market Censorship
In this consideration of André Schiffrin's "The Business of Books," Dan Simon names the great heroes of book publishing and laments the future of the word under conglomerated corporate control.
From The Nation magazine, 25 December 2000.
> also about: United Kingdom, United States, Advertising/Commerce, Business, Cultural Impacts

Nobel Prize Ruffles China
Three Chinese poets, Wei Manzeng, Jiang Nan and Wang Changhuai, were arrested in Guangxi province for attempting to organize a national literary symposium. They were detained after refusing a police request to cancel the event because two "problematic poets" had been invited to the conference of more than 200 poets originally planned for November 6-11. (It has not been rescheduled.) The police als...
From Arts Wire Current, 5 December 2000.
> also about: China, Freedom of Expression

Israeli Writing Women
In the last 20 years, notes Yehudit Katzir, the literary scene in Israel has widened to include not just nationalist-Zionist accounts by men, but work from a more private sphere where women often shine.
From World Press Review, 1 November 2000.
> also about: Israel, Cultural Impacts, Diversity

The Slow Reform Of Indonesia Media
In the last 20 years, notes Yehudit Katzir, the literary scene in Israel has widened to include not just nationalist-Zionist accounts by men, but work from a more private sphere where women often shine.
From World Press Review, 1 November 2000.
> also about: Israel, Cultural Impacts, Diversity

Womens' Secret Stories
When journalist Ashwini Sukthankar wrote about Indian lesbians, she was, in part, betraying her own community. She tells how a film and her new book are bringing uneasy visibility to an underground movement.
From New Internationalist, 1 October 2000.
> also about: India, Activism, Cultural Impacts, Diversity, Film

Pollack Jokes
Neal Pollack, who has been referred to as "hip guy du jour ," is bringing his literary chops to the unconventional publishing company du jour , McSweeny's. Chris Wright wonders what this means — and asks some silly questions.
From Boston Phoenix, 21 September 2000.
> also about: Business, Personalities

This page brings together all the stories on Books that have been featured on MediaChannel, with links to related pages.

Articles 1 to 15 of 56 (with the most recent first)
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