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By Kui Xie and Nicole Luthy/The Conversation
For decades, textbooks were seen as the foundation for instruction in American schools. These discipline-specific tomes were a fundamental part of the educational infrastructure, assigned to students for each subject and carried in heavy backpacks every day – from home to school and back again.
The experience of students is much different today.
Posted on June 28, 2017
By Tobin Miller Shearer/The Conversation
New York City’s Fresh Air Fund has sent city kids, most of them low-income, to suburban and rural neighborhoods for two-week summer vacations for the past 140 years.
Originally intended to restore malnourished, sickly and white immigrant children to health, the fund expanded its mission in the 1960s to focus on – as director Frederick Lewis put it in 1969 – “bridge-building and unifying” across racial lines.
While studying the history of the Fresh Air Fund and more than 60 similar programs across North America between 1939 and 1979, I found a significant gap between their racial aims and what the kids who took part experienced. My new book, Two Weeks Every Summer, examines the experiences of African-American and Latino children who traveled in those years from cities like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia throughout the Northeast and Midwest and to points as far West as Hawaii to stay with host families.
Posted on June 26, 2017
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Media consolidation: 1949 Royal Commission.
E&P on one-newspaper towns. (Does E&P even publish anymore?)
complaining about too much foreign coverage AP!
news shrinks; would like to supply more, but shareholders! must be fair!
now the problem is no longer outrageous profits … but same attitude … death spiral
John Morton (that one other and mary meeker)
read all about it guy.
shareholders cross section of american public!
proprietors nervous around news like horse owners around horses!
don’t compete; buy the other out and levy tribute
between-us editorials!
foreign news in the country depends on how ny dept stores sell underwear
(for all the very real promise of the internet, made it depend *more* on advertising – even as the advertising market thus became more competitive. utter failure to grasp the dynamics that led to others innovating craigslist, google and such, even deadspin and mlbtraderumors.com)
1925 already apparent!
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As the Times story said, “Over the course of the campaign, he has earned close to $2 billion worth of media attention, about twice the all-in price of the most expensive presidential campaigns in history. It is also twice the estimated $746 million that Hillary Clinton, the next best at earning media, took in.”
Of this development, CBS Chairman Les Moonves famously said: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Here’s what else he said: “Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now? The money’s rolling in and this is fun. I’ve never seen anything like this, and this going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”
POLLS –
“You balanced Donald Trump’s proposal that the military execute the innocent families of terrorists, against Hillary’s emails. You balanced pot-stirring racist lies about President Obama’s birth, against Hillary’s emails. You balanced a religious test at our borders, torture by our military, jokes about assassination, unfounded claims of a rigged election, boasts about groping and paradoxical threats to sue anyone who confirmed the boasts, against Hillary’s emails. You balanced endorsement of nuclear proliferation, against Hillary’s emails. You balanced tirelessly, indefatigably; you balanced, you balanced, and then you balanced some more.”
THE TRENDING TOPICS FIASCO
(DISTRIBUTORS DOING CONTENT)
After every election, we agonize about journalism’s coverage.
SAME THING EVERY TIME – NOT ENOUGH SUBSTANCE. REMEMBER WHEN WE WOULD NO LONGER IGNORE AFGHANISTAN?
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No Media Critics.
no comment. no peer review.
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Also — you’re thinking about factchecking & what it says about press quality…
Also — you’re thinking about digital outlets who are doing some things well…
Also: literary over facts; novelization of the news. what did he have for breakfast?
Formula: thanksgiving; the stories done every year
Editors have ideas in their head …
Bullshit of trend stories …
Homicide watch fad
foundation/grant misfire – citizen journalism, hyperlocal, tech, public data … never about doing journalism itself better and funding the models that work … tally wins and losses for knight, mccormick, macarthur …
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http://www.hiwrite.com/pro.html
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http://www.rusoffagency.com/non_fiction_book_proposal.htm
Organization
1. Overview and Description
The proposal will generally open with a two-to three-page introduction. This is essentially an abstract, providing a thesis statement and delineating the concept of the book. Make a strong case for yourself here: Tell us how you came to this idea and why you think it is important.
2. Outline
Provide a table of contents followed by a detailed chapter-by-chapter description of the book. For each proposed chapter, write at least a paragraph–more if you like–summing up the major points of this chapter. How will your book be organized? Will you provide case studies?
3. The Package
Include an estimated length of the manuscript and a projected delivery date. Also, if there will be artwork, mention how many pieces of art there will be and whether it will be color or black-and-white. Please list the sources, and if you know the details, provide information on how the art will be licensed and what reprint permissions might cost.
Market
1. Audience
Whom do you think will read your book? How will they use it, and how will it help them? Be as specific as possible. The more narrowly you focus on your audience, the greater the chance you have of attracting an editor and, eventually, reaching your readers. In other words, “everyone who likes to read will read this book” is a less useful description than “this is a book for people who like to garden.”
2. Competition
What other books exist in this subject area? It is your responsibility to know. Go to bookstores, the library; check Books in Print (available in the reference section of most libraries). An editor reading your proposal may or may not know the market for this specific area; nonetheless, she will depend on you to describe the competition. Then explain briefly what each competing book tries to do, and describe how yours is different. (In the case of many competitive books, stick to only those three or four that you consider to be the most important and the best.) If there is little or no competition, explain how your book fills a gap in the market.
About the author
Why are you the right person to write this book? What are your relevant experiences? Tell us about your background and your present occupation. Mention anything interesting about yourself that is relevant to this book. Have you written any previous books? (If so, you should collect all information about sales, subsidiary rights, reviews, etc., and submit that to me.) Do you have any media experience? The prospective publisher will want to know this. Press clips and videotapes should be included. You can also attach a CV if you have one.
Writing sample
It is essential that the proposal include a writing sample, so the editor can get a sense of your style. You may have great ideas, but that is not enough if you cannot effectively convey them.
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education and training
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deming!
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chapter: fact-checking
chapter: minimum mandator
chapter: obama press conference? or another book?
chapter: follow liebling: trend stories, death of newspapers,
chapter: sun-times mckinney affair + ferro
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look at my proposal/s
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learn from lippman, liebling, chomsky
Posted on June 18, 2017
By AP
The cousin of Emmett Till, a black teen whose 1955 lynching in Mississippi helped trigger the modern civil rights movement, says a new book helps clear his cousin’s reputation.
Posted on June 13, 2017
‘You were very good!
“The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alternative comics’ most talented artists – past, present and future.
“Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.”
CAKE 2017 was held this weekend. Here are some highlights.
Jesus Christ! Chuck Berry AND Sun Ra versus Marty McFly?! Sign me up. #cake2017
— Magician’s House (@magicianshouse) June 11, 2017
From “Chuck Berry’s Revenge” one of the new 7-inchers from https://t.co/PtHX8IOjaK (good outing to @CAKEchicago today!) pic.twitter.com/zt1nnzqU4v
— Joe Germuska (@JoeGermuska) June 11, 2017
Posted on June 12, 2017
By Rose Phillips Online/via YouTube
“Connecting children through sharing a love of reading and putting a library in every underserved Chicago public school that doesn’t have one of their own.”
Posted on June 9, 2017
By SIU Press
When the Civil War began, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was concentrated almost exclusively in Philadelphia and was dominated by just a few major firms; when the war ended, it was poised to expand nationwide.
Civil War Pharmacy is the first book to delineate how the growing field of pharmacy gained respect and traction in, and even distinction from, the medical world because of the large-scale manufacture and dispersion of drug supplies and therapeutics during the Civil War.
Posted on June 7, 2017
