As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical development of audience feedback, the book considers how news media has changed its approach to accommodating audience participation, and explores how audience feedback can serve the needs of bot...

Does the mere sight of a bank statement trigger a knot in your stomach?You aren't lazy, broken, or bad at math; you've simply been sold financial advice designed for robots, not humans.Money Minus Math is your permission slip to stop the shame cycle. Whether you are an Avoider, a Spender, or just someone tired of complex spreadsheets, this guide offers a human-centered path to financial peace. You will learn to build systems that w...

Foundations of Community Journalism is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in this ever-increasing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers, this book provides students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple methods applied to the study of community journalism, such as historical, social-scientific, cultural/critical, and interdisciplinary approaches. It explains what community journa...

How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions-and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is available to provide much-needed, accessible guidance.Its twelve chapters, written ...

She was no ordinary woman. She was beautiful and irresistible. And yet she had a deformity, a mutation, which compelled her to take any man who aroused her, latch onto him with her legs around his face, subdue him with her narcotic secretions, and ride him until his life was taken from him to fill the aching void in her womb. The police would find her eventually, but would that be an end to it?

Leading an army to victory is a piece of cake for someone with the right skillset, like Gongja! Following their success, the top ten ranked hunters are unexpectedly summoned to a different place to choose between rewards from the goddess and the Demon King. However, Gongja’s got more urgent things to take care of. A gathering of the top hunters means facing the Sword Emperor, so forget making the right choice–will Gongja manage to get out of this alive?

Some people are born lucky, chosen to receive power and riches beyond imagination, but Gongja Kim? He’s a total loser with a completely useless ability: duplicating others’ skills—that is, after they kill him. Gongja’s all but given up…until he witnesses the strongest hunter in the world and his idol, Flame Emperor, committing murder and is slaughtered in cold blood! But who knew his former idol was hiding just the skill he needed to turn his fortune around? Now practically unstoppable, Go...

The reverberations of the rifle shots that killed four students on May 4, 1970 echoed across the nation and beyond. Nowhere, perhaps, did they echo with more persistence and poignancy than at the place where it happened, the Kent State University campus. For more than ten years the university's name has been a symbol of the Sixties protest movements as the causes of the event were debated, lawsuits embroiled participants and victims, and concerned people struggled for appropriate means for...

Bill is a story of the author's life as he has lived it. He is a boy who has experienced life as a member of a family that was poor but faithful to one another. He has gone through boyhood and into manhood, living life to the fullest and experiencing two marriages and two divorces and with the honor of having a son born on his birthday by his second wife. His son continues to make his life worthwhile with each passing day.

Carden Bottoms was a community at the west base of Petit Jean Mountain and east of Holla Bend, near the Arkansas River.Now the foundation of the once popular school is the only evidence to be found that it ever existed. The structure and its gym no longer mark the community as a proud structure. The gym collapsed and the school building was destroyed by an arsonist.What used to be a bustling little community is now full of ghosts and memories, with some of those memories be...

Blurred Images is a fictional story of Tommy Owens, a Marine Corps decorated sniper from the Vietnam War area.The story begins with his enlistment, initial training, and his assignments with the CIA.Tommy rotates back to the United States after setting several records for the number of kills and the longest kill by a Marine sniper. He accepts work for the CIA as a sniper and gets sent to Iraq, where he loses his sight in an ambush and roadside bomb.After being rotated...

In 1955 Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita, a novel about a older man’s fascination and subsequent involvement with a flirtatious twelve year old girl who is as scheming as she is beautiful. Fiction? Non-Fiction? Fantasy? Reality? Who can say? I guess that every older guy has a secret wish to meet a younger woman who is attracted to him; but not necessarily one that is underage.The most commonly held belief regarding age and romance is that young girls would not ...