Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete Sharon Wheeler 7月 4日
Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction, edited by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton Book of the week: Dream homes, women on the edge, murder – we’ve been here before, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 8月 2日
Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead, by Jessica M. Fishman From Hillsborough to rape victims, a study mulls the place of emotive images, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 1月 18日
The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach, by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders Book of the week: Sharon Wheeler investigates how mystery writers play a guessing game with their reader-sleuths Sharon Wheeler 7月 13日
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts Sharon Wheeler 6月 22日
Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes – Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers, by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi A whistle-stop tour of criminals’ texts is packed with listicles and promises, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 3月 30日
The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, by Wendy Gamber The tale of a shocking killing falls short as true crime and as social history, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 12月 1日
Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 9月 8日
Behind the Wireless: An Early History of Women at the BBC, by Kate Murphy Well-researched portraits of female pioneers and game gals capture the buzz around the Beeb as women entered the professions, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 7月 7日
The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction, by John Walton The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 12月 17日
The News From Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington’s Victory, by Brian Cathcart Frolics abound in a tale of how the 1815 triumph hit the front pages, writes Sharon Wheeler Sharon Wheeler 7月 2日
