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CURRENT EVENTS AND ISSUES

FORTHCOMING

Reimagining Journalism

in a Post-Truth World

How Late-Night Comedians, Internet Trolls,
and Savvy Reporters Are Transforming News
ED MADISON AND BEN DEJARNETTE

While the 2016 U.S. presidential election delivered a stunning result, the news media’s
breathless coverage of it was no surprise. News networks turned debates into primetime
entertainment, reporters spent more time covering poll results than public policy issues,
and the cozy relationship between journalists and political insiders helped ensure intrigue January 2018, 184pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
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and ratings, even as it eroded journalism’s role as democracy’s “Fourth Estate.” Against $37.00, £29.00, €34.00
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how journalism can regain the public’s trust by learning from pioneers both within and
beyond the profession. Connecting the dots between faux news, fake news, and real news,
coauthors Madison and DeJarnette provide an unflinching analysis of where mainstream ED MADISON, PhD, is assistant
professor at the University of
journalism went wrong—and what the next generation of reporters can do to make it right. Oregon School of Journalism and
Communication in Eugene, OR.
FEATURES
BEN DEJARNETTE is a contributing
• Examines the historical roots of journalism’s crisis while pushing the conversation editor for MediaShift and a freelance
toward promising experiments and solutions journalist.

FORTHCOMING
Hate Unleashed

America’s Cataclysmic Change

EDWARD DUNBAR
Hate Unleashed: America’s Cataclysmic Change looks at the process by which America
moved away from a traditional progressive democratic model of governance in response to
themes of economic and cultural vulnerability. Presenting insights based on psychological
science as well as survey data and polling research, author Edward Dunbar exposes how
xenophobia, the use of hate speech as a political tool, and unbridled ultranationalism
challenged the political status quo and led to an escalation in hate activity after the
November 2016 election. The book draws on empirical examination of data regarding December 2017, 219pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
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hate activity and individual interviews to examine the cataclysmic cultural divisions in $37.00, £29.00, €34.00
an unending civil war in the transformation of the United States into a true multicultural eBook: 978-1-4408-5815-4
society. The studies included in the text emphasize the importance of working to fight
against hate crimes and their proliferation since November 2016.
EDWARD DUNBAR, EdD, is clinical
professor in the Department of
FEATURES Psychology at University of California,
• Presents and examines presidential polling data and the discernible relationship to hate Los Angeles.
crime incidence data
• Looks at data on victims of post-11/8 hate incidents
• Identifies the patterns in and correlations between historical violence, political
differences, and voting patterns

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