The New Broadcasting Realities: Real-Life Strategies, Insights, and Issues for Broadcast Journalists, Aspiring Journalists, Production Executives, and ... Age of Broadcasting, Cable, and the Internet

The New Broadcasting Realities: Real-Life Strategies, Insights, and Issues for Broadcast Journalists, Aspiring Journalists, Production Executives, and ... Age of Broadcasting, Cable, and the Internet Review

An insider's look at the world of Broadcasting from the master of Career Choreography™. Are news and programming values and strategies changing? You bet they are! In The New Broadcasting Realities, Ken Lindner offers solutions to the complex issues and problems broadcasting professionals face in today's media landscape. Whether you're a media professional or an aspiring broadcast journalist, Lindner, who has guided the careers of hundreds of the nation's leading television newscasters and program hosts including Matt Lauer, Lester Holt, Elizabeth Vargas, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Mario Lopez, Robin Meade, Megyn Kelly, Nancy O'Dell, and Samantha Harris, provides insider tips on Choreographing the steps of your broadcasting career. With case studies and an experienced, critical perspective, Lindner offers detailed advice on making career-enhancing decisions, including how to: • Multi-platform your career to enhance your visibility, brand, and marketability, as well as exponentially increase your income; • Strategically Choreograph your broadcasting career so that you are able to achieve your most cherished goals and dreams; • Negotiate the clauses in your employment contract(s) so that you are able to achieve your short- and long-term goals; and • Create effective solutions for hot-button issues and challenges that broadcasting professionals will inevitably face in The New Age of Broadcasting. The worlds of news and hosting are ever-changing, but Lindner's highly insightful examination of the issues facing broadcast journalists and broadcasters today will help you rise above the pack and maximize your potential.

Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age

Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age Review

Computing technology is constantly evolving and changing, developing and consolidating its position as a vital component of our lives. It no longer plays a minor part in society – it is embedded in, and affects, all aspects of life, from education to healthcare to war. Dealing with the implications of this is a major challenge, and one that can impact upon us, both personally and professionally. As a consequence, it is vital that all in the computing industry make wise decisions regarding their conduct.

Using case studies and discussion topics drawn from entertaining real world examples, Pandora’s Box examines the background of a wide range of vital contemporary issues, encouraging readers to examine the social, legal and ethical challenges they will face in their own careers.

Written in an engaging style and packed with international examples, this book addresses topics which have come to the forefront of public consciousness in recent years, such as online crime, piracy and peer to peer file sharing. Comprehensive coverage is provided of digital entertainment, censorship and privacy issues, presenting a rich source of context in which to consider ethical matters.

Suitable for students on computer science degree programmes, as well as those taking IT related modules on other courses which consider the impact of technology on 21^st century living, Pandora’s Box is an essential read and a unique and timely textbook.

The Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies)

The Last Battle of the Cold War: An Inside Account of Negotiating the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies) Review

Providing a first-hand account of the bureaucratic and public struggles leading to the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, Glitman focuses on debates among American negotiators, Europeans, and Soviets. This is an important look at policy making and negotiations all the more relevant in an age of proliferation.