International Holidays: May 3rd is World Press Freedom Day!
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
by:
William Neuman
4.12 avg rating — 979 ratings 2. 
Close-Up on War: The Story of Pioneering Photojournalist Catherine Leroy in Vietnam 4.10 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
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Deborah Cohen
3.78 avg rating — 1,197 ratings 4. 
Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society
by:
Victor Pickard
4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings 4. 
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
by:
David E. McCraw
4.14 avg rating — 601 ratings 4. 
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by:
Jane Mayer
4.18 avg rating — 4,569 ratings 4. 
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by:
Siddharth Kara
4.36 avg rating — 14,151 ratings 
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
by:
Richard Kluger
3.41 avg rating — 111 ratings 
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl
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Mariane Pearl
4.08 avg rating — 2,786 ratings 11. 
Newsworthy: The Supreme Court Battle over Privacy and Press Freedom
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Samantha Barbas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 13. 
In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
by:
Lee Woodruff
4.11 avg rating — 3,881 ratings 13. 
Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
by:
Nat Hentoff
4.02 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel
by:
Howard Reich
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 17. 
The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
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Katie Couric
3.66 avg rating — 3,915 ratings 17. 
Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick's Iconic Images of the March on Washington
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Kitty Kelley
4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings 19. 
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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press 3.79 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy
by:
Marvin Kalb
4.12 avg rating — 135 ratings 22. 
A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago
by:
E. James West
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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The Press and Slavery in America, 1791-1859: The Melancholy Effect of Popular Excitement
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Brian Gabrial
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 26. 
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
by:
Stephanie Gorton
4.10 avg rating — 250 ratings 28. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,730 ratings 29. 
We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity
by:
Doug Cumming
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 34. 
Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
by:
Jonathan Kern
4.19 avg rating — 343 ratings 34. 
Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by:
Eliot Higgins
4.12 avg rating — 5,436 ratings 38. 
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 40. 
Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.85 avg rating — 3,759 ratings 40. 
Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974
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Geoff Kaplan
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again 3.86 avg rating — 153 ratings
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SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (2013 Edition)
by:
Greg Mitchell
3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings 46. 
American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century
by:
James O'Keefe
4.20 avg rating — 305 ratings 
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Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
by:
John McMillian
3.68 avg rating — 129 ratings 50. 
The AEF in Print: An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I
by:
Chris Dubbs
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 50. 
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
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Harold Holzer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings 52. 
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism 4.15 avg rating — 23,622 ratings
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Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press 4.19 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It 3.67 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Due Diligence and the News: Searching for a Moral Compass in the Digital Age
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Stanley E. Flink
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 58. 
Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by:
Astra Taylor
4.04 avg rating — 606 ratings 60. 
Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism
by:
Richard J. Tofel
3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings 60. 
The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks
by:
Bruce Bartlett
3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings 62. 
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
by:
Lindsey Hilsum
4.42 avg rating — 4,899 ratings 64. 
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by:
Dave Eggers
4.30 avg rating — 352 ratings 64. 
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
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Alexander Stille
4.28 avg rating — 389 ratings 66. 
News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal 3.54 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print (Nation Books)
by:
David Wallis
3.62 avg rating — 86 ratings 
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Scotty: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism
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John F. Stacks
3.47 avg rating — 32 ratings 70. 
Ben Robertson: South Carolina Journalist and Author
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Jodie Peeler
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 72. 
Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!
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Dave Barry
3.86 avg rating — 1,212 ratings 72. 
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria
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Muhammad Najem
4.51 avg rating — 777 ratings 76. 
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The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War
by:
Dick Lehr
3.78 avg rating — 96 ratings 
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Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1)
by:
Carolin Emcke
4.56 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most 4.16 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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Scott Ellsworth
4.19 avg rating — 1,307 ratings 84. 
An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I
by:
Chris Dubbs
3.77 avg rating — 73 ratings 
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World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts That Riveted a Nation
by:
Alex Lubertozzi
4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings 90. 
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America
by:
Dan Pfeiffer
4.13 avg rating — 1,654 ratings 90. 
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.01 avg rating — 412 ratings 
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Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11
by:
Lindsay Palmer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen
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Laura Kasinof
3.88 avg rating — 188 ratings 96. 
The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach
by:
Sarah Stodola
3.57 avg rating — 1,193 ratings 96. 
The Camera at War: A history of war photography from 1848 to the present day
by:
Jorge Lewinski
4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
by:
Richard Stengel
3.76 avg rating — 614 ratings