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This volume presents eleven chapters of main political developments in several Middle East countries as told by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists. Topics range from reports about Israel's War of Independence to Civil War incidents in Lebanon, the uprising of the fundamental Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and the terror system of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (Series: ?Pulitzer Prize Panorama, Vol. 13) [Subject: Politics, Middle East Studies
"Kathryn McGarr reveals how the Cold War consensus was deliberately created, shaped, maintained, and protected by a coterie of influential journalists in Washington, DC, who calculated what they would do (or not do) for sustained access to information. The compact among journalists, elected officials, and other government operatives constrained knowledge for everyone in a time when political insight was centrally controlled and defined. Yet these reporters, many of them outsiders from the Midwest, did this not out of malfeasance but for social and political benefit, ever conscious of the need to cultivate, placate, and blend with their sources"--
This volume reconstructs the jury decisions during the annual selection processes leading to the Pulitzer Prize winners in International Reporting 1917 to 2017, representing about thirty American news organizations. Based on unpublished jury reports and award winning press materials located in the Pulitzer Prize Collection at Columbia University, New York, stories are covered from the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Mexico, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Vietnam and Yugoslavia.
Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country's intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Originally published in 1986. This book is a unique compilation of biographical sketches which covers editors, publishers, photographers, bureau chiefs, columnists, commentators, cartoonists, and artists. Alphabetical entries provide overviews of the lives and personalities of a good cross-section of important people. There is also a short essay on awards and prize winners. Everything is efficiently indexed. This is a supremely useful reference tool for those in mass media and popular culture fields.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)