On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News has received the PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) Award in the category of Media and Cultural Studies. The annual award from the Association of American Publishers recognizes outstanding scholarly books. Read the news release here.
Month: January 2019
On Press featured in New Yorker essay by Jill Lepore
In the January 28, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore discusses Matthew Pressman’s book On Press: The Liberal Values that Shaped the News, along with other recent books about journalism by Jill Abramson (former editor of The New York Times) and Alan Rusbridger (former editor of The Guardian). Read the article here.
Journalism Professor Featured in the Washington Post, NiemanLab, and on CSPAN (Seton Hall News)
Professor Matthew Pressman and his new book, On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News (Harvard University Press), have been featured in the Washington Post, Harvard University’s NiemanLab and on CSPAN’s “Book TV.”
This newest round of media appearances adds to a list of recent features that includes Time magazine, Vanity Fair, and a review in Politico by Jack Shafer that referred to Pressman’s book as an “answer to his prayers” for … (read more)
The battle over objectivity intensifies (NiemanLab)
My contribution to NiemanLab’s predictions for journalism in 2019. Read here.