Entertainment Journalism

Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years’ experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include:   breaking a story   interviewing techniques   working at press junkets and red carpet events   working with PRs   selling as a freelance   using social media for reporting and networking   breaking into the industry.  With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this is an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist.

Entertainment Journalism: Making it your Career

Politics & Social Sciences

FALK, Ben

Social Sciences

Routledge

Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years’ experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include: <ul>
<li>breaking a story</li> <li>interviewing techniques</li> <li>working at press junkets and red carpet events</li> <li>working with PRs</li> <li>selling as a freelance</li> <li>using social media for reporting and networking</li> <li>breaking into the industry.</li> </ul>
With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this is an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist.

Humor & Entertainment

The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland. Falk’s wide array of fruit trees, rice paddies (relatively unheard of in the Northeast), ducks, nuts, and earth-inspired buildings is a hopeful image for the future of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. The book covers nearly every strategy Falk and his team have been testing at the Whole Systems Research Farm over the past decade, as well as experiments from other sites Falk has designed through his off-farm consulting business. The book includes detailed information on earthworks; gravity-fed water systems; species composition; the site-design process; site management; fuelwood hedge production and processing; human health and nutrient-dense production strategies; rapid topsoil formation and remineralization; agroforestry/silvopasture/grazing; ecosystem services, especially regarding flood mitigation; fertility management; human labor and social-systems aspects; tools/equipment/appropriate technology; and much more, complete with gorgeous photography and detailed design drawings. The Resilient Farm and Homestead is more than just a book of tricks and techniques for regenerative site development, but offers actual working results in living within complex farm-ecosystems based on research from the “great thinkers” in permaculture, and presents a viable home-scale model for an intentional food-producing ecosystem in cold climates, and beyond. Inspiring to would-be homesteaders everywhere, but especially for those who find themselves with “unlikely” farming land, Falk is an inspiration in what can be done by imitating natural systems, and making the most of what we have by re-imagining what’s possible. A gorgeous case study for the homestead of the future.

The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Chelsea Green Publishing

The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design

Professor Brian Cox is among the best-known physicists in the world. As presenter of hit television series Human Universe, Wonders of the Solar System, and Wonders of the Universe, his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science to a whole new audience. Born in Lancashire in 1968, Cox was a bright but not brilliant pupil at school. He flourished at university, however, gaining a first-class honors degree and an MPhil in Physics from Manchester University before being awarded his PhD in particle physics in 1998. Alongside his studies, he played keyboards in the band D:Ream, who topped the charts in 1994 with "Things Can Only Get Better," which was famously used by the Labor Party for its 1997 election campaign. Although an award-winning celebrity TV presenter, Brian Cox remains devoted to scientific research. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, an advanced fellow at the University of Manchester, and also works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. In 2010 he was awarded the OBE for his services to science. Featuring exclusive interviews and in-depth research, this book delves into the fascinating universe of the man who single-handedly made physics cool.

Brian Cox - The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation

Science & Math

John Blake

Professor Brian Cox is probably the best-known physicist in the world today. As presenter of the hit television series 'Wonders of the Solar System' and 'Wonders of The Universe', his affable charm and infectious enthusiasm have brought science to a whole new audience. This book tells his story.

The Wonder of Brian Cox: The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Ever since John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated this now all-pervasive medium in his small Soho laboratory, the history of television has been littered with remarkable but true tales of the unexpected. Ranging from bizarre stories of actors' shenanigans behind the camera to strange but true executive and marketing decisions, and covering over 100 shows, series, and episodes, from behind and in front of the camera in British and American television studios, this book is the ultimate tome of TV trivia. From live TV suicide to Ricky Martin's disastrous candid camera-style episode involving a young female fan and serval cans of dog food, Television's Strangets Moments will keep you hooked, when there's nothing worth watching on the box.

Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television (Strangest series)

Falk, Quentin

Humor

Robson Books

The first detailed and authoritative account of the life, career, stardom, and controversy of one of Hollywood’s most popular and gifted actors "I've always felt like an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess." —Robert Downey Jr. Robert Downey Jr.'s life isn't a movie—but it could be. This biography is an insightful, devastating, scathing, and ultimately uplifting journey into the realms of Hollywood’s darkest excesses and successes. Downey now commands $25 million a movie—not bad for someone who 10 years ago was in prison, addicted to heroin and cocaine, and one bad choice away from death. Sherlock Holmes was one of last year's biggest blockbusters, with its sequel expected at the end of 2011, while summer 2010 blockbuster Iron Man 2 continued the fun and the high praise for Downey of its predecessor. His is without a doubt Hollywood’s greatest ever comeback.

Robert Downey Jr.: The Fall and Rise of the Comeback Kid

Anova Books

The first detailed and authoritative account of the life, career, stardom, and controversy of one of Hollywood’s most popular and gifted actors "I've always felt like an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess." —Robert Downey Jr. Robert Downey Jr.'s life isn't a movie—but it could be. This biography is an insightful, devastating, scathing, and ultimately uplifting journey into the realms of Hollywood’s darkest excesses and successes. Downey now commands $25 million a movie—not bad for someone who 10 years ago was in prison, addicted to heroin and cocaine, and one bad choice away from death. Sherlock Holmes was one of last year's biggest blockbusters, with its sequel expected at the end of 2011, while summer 2010 blockbuster Iron Man 2 continued the fun and the high praise for Downey of its predecessor. His is without a doubt Hollywood's greatest ever comeback.

Portico

Une ferme résiliente et productive pour vivre à la campagne - une approche innovante de la permaculture et de la conception globale de systèmes, conduite avec le

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Entertainment Journalism: Making it your Career

Entertainment Journalism

The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design

Brian Cox - The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation

The Wonder of Brian Cox: The Unauthorised Biography of the Man Who Brought Science to the Nation

Television's Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Tales from the History of Television (Strangest series)

Robert Downey Jr.: The Fall and Rise of the Comeback Kid

Robert Downey Jr.: The Fall and Rise of the Comeback Kid

Une ferme résiliente et productive pour vivre à la campagne - une approche innovante de la permaculture et de la conception globale de systèmes, conduite avec le