Book Review – The New York Times Reader: Business & Economics

October 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The New York Times Reader: Business & Economics. Mark W. Tatge. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010. 282 pp.

Business and economics journalism, despite advances in the past two decades, still remains a backwater in terms of education in journalism and mass communication programs. That’s why Mark Tatge’s reader on business and economics coverage in the New York Times is a welcome addition.

Tatge, a former Forbes senior editor and Wall Street Journal reporter, uses examples from the Times to explain how stories about major business and economics topics were reported, and adds interviews with the reporters and editors who produced the stories so readers understand the difficulties, and the tricks, in covering such beats. That makes this a book that could be a valuable addition to the syllabus for corporate PR classes as well as reporting and business journalism classes.  [Read more...]

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Book Review – Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics. Jodi Dean. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009, 232 pages.

Jodi Dean is a multitasker. She teaches political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and is the Erasmus Professor of the Humanities at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is also a critical scholar worthy of the title. Rather than following the well-worn path of criticism directed at the “powers that be,” Dean directs her attention toward the infirmities within and among critics and activists on the political left in the United States. At the heart of her critique is her suggestion that the once-sharp edges of social movement vanguards have been dulled by their emersion in a cloud of meaningless and self-serving chatter that merely adds to the flow of digital detritus that she defines as the essence of “communicative capitalism.”  [Read more...]

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Book Review – The Media Economy

October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Media Economy. Albarran, Alan B. (2010). New York: Routledge. pp. 201.

With everyone looking for the business model that puts the economy back in media economy, books with that title raise great hope. The difficulty in writing a book about the media economy is that the ecosystem is so fluid that any attempt to describe it is in danger of becoming a history and not a model for the future.  [Read more...]

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