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Journalism: Why It Matters


 

Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters.  It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it offers a fact-centered, documented approach to pertinent public issues. It matters because it keeps watch on the powerful, especially those in government, and can press upon



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Journalism: Why It Matters


 

Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters.  It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters because it offers a fact-centered, documented approach to pertinent public issues. It matters because it keeps watch on the powerful, especially those in government, and can press upon



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Digital Media Ethics, 3rd Edition


 
The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global, cross-cultural perspective.  

This third edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the latest research and developments, including the rise of Big Data, AI, and the Internet of Things. The book’s case studies and pedagogical material have also been extensively revised and updated to include such

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Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy, 2nd Edition


 
Since the 1930s, the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories that have captivated audiences around the world. How can we understand the appeal of Disney products? What is it about the Disney phenomenon that attracts so many children, as well as adults?
 
In this updated second edition, with new examples provided throughout, Janet Wasko examines the processes by which the Disney company – one of the largest media and entertainment

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The Handbook of Magazine Studies


 

A scholarly work examining the continuing evolution of the magazine—part of the popular Handbooks in Media and Communication series

The Handbook of Magazine Studies is a wide-ranging study of the ways in which the political economy of magazines has dramatically shifted in recent years—and continues to do so at a rapid pace. Essays from emerging and established scholars explore the cultural function of magazine media in light of significant changes



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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly, 7th Edition


 

The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated information

In the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, the newest online videos, the latest mobile apps, and all the other high-tech influences can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep



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Weather Warnings for Western Australia - land areas. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology




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FCC Adopts a New Official Seal in Anticipation of Relocation

In anticipation of its upcoming move, the FCC has adopted a new FCC seal. The redesigned seal is the product of an agency-wide contest that solicited proposals from employees and contractors. The winning design, submitted by Umasankar Arumugam, was selected by a vote of the agency’s employees and contractors.

The revised design incorporates several elements: communications technologies currently...




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The Latest Episode of ARRL Audio News is Now Available

Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

 




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FCC Providing Flexibility to Volunteer Examiners in Developing Remote Testing Methods

The FCC has clarified that nothing in its rules prohibits remote amateur radio testing, and no prior approval is needed to conduct remote exam sessions.

“The Commission provides flexibility to volunteer examiners and coordinators who wish to develop remote testing methods or to increase remote testing programs already in place,” the FCC said in an April 30 news release. “We recognize that some v...




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AMSAT Solicits Nominations for the 2020 Board of Directors Election

AMSAT is soliciting candidate nominations for the 2020 Board of Directors Election set for later this year, to fill the seats of three incumbent Directors whose 2-year terms expire in 2020: Tom Clark, K3IO; Mark Hammond, N8MH, and Bruce Paige, KK5DO. AMSAT members may further elect up to two Alternate Directors for 1-year terms. Valid Director nominations must be in writing and require either o...




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Ham-Com Cancels 2020 Show

Ham-Com will not take place in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “While we have held out hope that this year we would be able to host Ham-Com 2020 as a light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 virus, it is with great sadness that we must inform all that we are canceling Ham-Com 2020, with the event postponed until June 17, 18, and 19, 2021,” Ham-Com Board of Directors President Bil...




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RSGB’s RadCom Magazine May Edition Available to All Online




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Special Events Commemorate the End of World War II




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New SSTV Software Now Available

An update of the popular MMSSTV slow-scan television (SSTV) software is now available. Eugenio Fernández, EA1ADA, has introduced YONIQ, which he calls a modern version of MMSSTV. “We are excited to finally be able to offer the entire radio community the revamped MMSSTV with the nickname YONIQ also in English,” he said. YONIQ is available in English and Spanish. The software offers several impro...




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May/June Issue of ARRL’s On the Air Magazine Now Available

The May/June digital edition of ARRL’s On the Air magazine is now available. Read it and other ARRL digital publications by browsing to the ARRL Magazines page. In this issue:

  • Tips for better repeater operating

  • Understanding modulation

  • Go-kit basics

  • Building a portable antenna mount

  • Shopping for a mobile radio

…and much more!

You can also read the issue on your Apple, Android, or Kindle device by ...




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First Guatemalan Satellite Deployed from the ISS

Guatemala’s first satellite, a CubeSat called Quetzal-1, was deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on April 28. Its primary mission is to test a sensor for remote data acquisition for natural resource management, which could be used to monitor water quality in inland water bodies.

The satellite is part of the Japanese Kibo CubeSat program, a product of the cooperation between, amon...




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IARU Region 2 Online Emergency Communication Workshops Get Under Way

International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R2) virtual emergency communication workshops got under way on April 29, when the first of the programs in English and Spanish, “What is Winlink and its Importance during Emergency Communications,” was presented in Spanish. Workshop presenter Alfonso Tamez, XE2O, of the Mexican Federation of Radio Amateurs, offered insights into the usefulness an...




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The K7RA Solar Update

We haven’t seen a sunspot since Thursday, April 30 when the daily sunspot number was 35. This is a relatively high sunspot number based on recent activity, although not historically. In fact, the daily sunspot number has not been as high since March 21, 2019 when it was 49, and prior to that we need to look back further to the previous year, when the daily sunspot number was 41 on June 22, 2018...




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Coronavirus Creating Short-Term Delivery Delays from ARRL Headquarters




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The Latest Episode of ARRL Audio News is Now Available

Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

 




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The June Issue of Digital QST is Now Available!




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[ASAP] “Sample-to-Answer” Detection of Rare ctDNA Mutation from 2 mL Plasma with a Fully Integrated DNA Extraction and Digital Droplet PCR Microdevice for Liquid Biopsy

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00818




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[ASAP] Microfluidic Platform for the Isolation of Cancer-Cell Subpopulations Based on Single-Cell Glycolysis

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05738




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[ASAP] ICBM-OCEAN: Processing Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data of Complex Molecular Mixtures

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05659




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[ASAP] One-Step Surface Modification to Graft DNA Codes on Paper: The Method, Mechanism, and Its Application

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00317




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[ASAP] Hollow Fiber Liquid-Phase Microextraction At-Line Coupled to Capillary Electrophoresis for Direct Analysis of Human Body Fluids

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00697




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[ASAP] In Situ Incorporation of Fluorophores in Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (ZIF-8) for Ratio-Dependent Detecting a Biomarker of Anthrax Spores

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00499




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[ASAP] FTIR Spectroelectrochemistry of F4TCNQ Reduction Products and Their Protonated Forms

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00615




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[ASAP] Bifunctional Au@Pt/Au core@shell Nanoparticles As Novel Electrocatalytic Tags in Immunosensing: Application for Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarker Detection

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00760




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[ASAP] Intuitive Model of Surface Modification Induced by Cluster Ion Beams

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01219




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[ASAP] High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry and Native Mass Spectrometry: Analysis of Intact Protein Assemblies and Protein Complexes

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00649




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[ASAP] Sulfenic Acid-Mediated on-Site-Specific Immobilization of Mitochondrial-Targeted NIR Fluorescent Probe for Prolonged Tumor Imaging

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05855




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[ASAP] Advanced Liquid Chromatography of Polyolefins Using Simultaneous Solvent and Temperature Gradients

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01095




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[ASAP] Structural Characterization of Individual a-Synuclein Oligomers Formed at Different Stages of Protein Aggregation by Atomic Force Microscopy-Infrared Spectroscopy

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00593




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[ASAP] Temporal-Spatial-Color Multiresolved Chemiluminescence Imaging for Multiplex Immunoassays Using a Smartphone Coupled with Microfluidic Chip

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01405




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[ASAP] Toward the Rational Design of Universal Dual Polarity Matrix for MALDI Mass Spectrometry

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00570




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[ASAP] Single-Cell Metabolic Profiling: Metabolite Formulas from Isotopic Fine Structures in Heterogeneous Plant Cell Populations

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00936




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[ASAP] Probing the Mechanism of Structure-Switching Aptamer Assembly by Super-Resolution Localization of Individual DNA Molecules

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05563




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[ASAP] Zirconium–Metalloporphyrin Frameworks–Luminol Competitive Electrochemiluminescence for Ratiometric Detection of Polynucleotide Kinase Activity

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01262




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[ASAP] A Smart Advanced Chemiluminescence-Sensing Platform for Determination and Imaging of the Tissue Distribution of Natural Antioxidants

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00044




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[ASAP] Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation Coupled to Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis for Rapid Online Characterization of Nanomaterials

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00406




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[ASAP] MALDI-2 Mass Spectrometry and Immunohistochemistry Imaging of Gb3Cer, Gb4Cer, and Further Glycosphingolipids in Human Colorectal Cancer Tissue

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00480




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[ASAP] Characterizing and Quantitating Therapeutic Tethered Multimeric Antibody Degradation Using Affinity Capture Mass Spectrometry

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05739




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[ASAP] Rapid and Sensitive Detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG, Using Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles-Based Lateral Flow Immunoassay

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00784




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[ASAP] Isothermal Chemical Denaturation: Data Analysis, Error Detection, and Correction by PARAFAC2

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05748




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[ASAP] Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Heparin in Serum Based on a Long-Wavelength Tetraphenylethylene–Cyanopyridine Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogen

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00496




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[ASAP] Excimer-FRET Cascade in Dual DNA Probes: Open Access to Large Stokes Shift, Enhanced Acceptor Light up, and Robust RNA Sensing

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00270




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[ASAP] Sensitive Top-Down Proteomics Analysis of a Low Number of Mammalian Cells Using a Nanodroplet Sample Processing Platform

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00467




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[ASAP] Method for Structural Determination of Lipid-Derived Radicals

Analytical Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00053