Newspaper Industry

Bloomsbury presents Hot Type, written and read by Jeff Jarvis. Hot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting...

A single lie ignites a mountain war—and the truth could bury them all. When a sensational 1893 “riot” splashes across front pages from New York to London, veteran Secret Service agent Ezekiel “Zeke” Duncan smells more than yellow ink. From counterfeit silver dollars flooding the Rust Belt to a murdered mountaineer in North Carolina, his hunt for coneymen drags him from grimy Pittsburgh alleys to backwoods stills and the shadowed corridors of the U.S. Mint. Each step unravels a darker scheme: a desperate mine baron, a disgraced Pinkerton agent, and a master coiner weaving a fortune...

The digital version of this audiobook contains an introduction read by Carl Bernstein. The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of All the President’s Men—the chronicle of the investigative report about the Watergate break-in and resultant political scandal which led to President Richard...

From New York Times bestselling author Pete Hamill, preeminent chronicler of New York City, comes the story of 24 hours in the lives of a kaleidoscope of characters. In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of...

Rachel Cusk’s second novel is a ruthless, surprising story of work, gender, and control. Ralph Loman is working in an unsatisfying job at a free London newspaper when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty...

Madeline Dare trades New York's gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado when her husband Dean lands a promising job. Madeline, now a full-time homemaker and mother to beautiful toddler twin girls, has achieved everything she thought she always wanted, but with her husband...

'Riveting and forensic' James O'Brien 'Brimming with intelligence, energy, ethics and impeccable research' Samira Ahmed 'An authoritative guide to improving your media literacy' The Big Issue The modern media is breaking. Now, more than ever, the media is crucial in shaping what we know about...