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SUGGESTED READINGS
IN JOURNALISM
Selected by Prof. Chris Daly
Boston University
Anthologies and collections:
American Datelines. Cray, Kotler, Beller
Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women
Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism
Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell.
One Man's Meat, E.B. White.
Essays of E.B. White.
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell.
The John McPhee Reader.
The Most of A.J. Leibling.
The Working Press: Special to The New York Times.
The Best American Essays. Various eds. Houghton Mifflin.
Library of America series: Reporting World War II, Reporting
Vietnam, Reporting Civil Rights.
War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters who Covered
Vietnam.
Some histories:
Discovering the News. Michael Schudson.
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime. Geoffrey Stone.
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting. J. Hamilton.
Breaking News. The Associated Press.
The Kingdom and the Power. Gay Talese. (on NYT)
The Trust. Tifft and Jones. (on NYT’s owners)
The Paper. Richard Kluger. (on the Herald-Tribune)
The First Casualty. Philip Knightley. (on war reporting)
The Powers That Be. David Halberstam. (on big media)
The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men and the NYT. Nan Robertson.
All the President’s Men. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Now the News. Edward Bliss (on TV news)
Taking their Place: History of Women and Journalism. Beasley
Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography. Brennen.
The African American Newspaper. Patrick Washburn.
Shooting War. Photography and the American Experience of
Combat. Susan Moeller.
Reporting America at War. Michelle Ferrari. (an oral history)
The Race Beat: The Press, Civil Rights, and the Awakening of a Nation
Roberts & Klibanoff
The Creation of the Media. Paul Starr
Network Nation, John
Some memoirs:
Newspaper Days. H.L. Mencken.
The Good Times. Russell Baker.
A Good Life. Ben Bradlee.
Personal History. Katharine Graham.
A Reporter’s Life. Walter Cronkite.
Laughing in the Dark. Patrice Gaines.
Here at The New Yorker. Brendan Gill.
Moving Violations. John Hockenberry.
Volunteer Slavery. Jill Nelson.
Missing Pages: Black Journalists in Modern America. Wallace Terry.
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. Lincoln Steffens.
Some biographies:
The Chief, David Nasaw. (about Hearst)
Pulitzer, James McGrath Morris
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century. Alan Brinkley
Walter Lippman and the American Century. Ronald Steel.
The Murrow Boys, Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson
Winchell. Neal Gabler.
Some touchstones:
Scoop! a comic novel by Evelyn Waugh.
The Front Page. Ben Hecht. (The stage play that inspired the film
"His Girl Friday.")
Citizen Kane Orson Welles' film masterpiece, about Hearst.
Critical studies:
James Carey: A Critical Reader. Munson and Warren eds.
We the Media. Dan Gillmor The Press. Overholser and Jamieson, eds.
The Media Monopoly. Ben Bagdikian.
Breaking the News. James Fallows.
Media Circus. Howie Kurtz.
The Chain Gang. Richard McCord.
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. John Allen Paulos.
The Power of News. Michael Schudson.
Bias. Bernard Goldberg.
What Liberal Media? Eric Alterman.
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