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News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change
by Michelle McLeallan and Tim Porter
As news outlets adapt to a changing media landscape, strategic learning is critical for organizations that want to increase their audiences, say authors Michelle McLeallan and Tim Porter.

We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age
by Scott Gant
Attorney Scott Gant, a former counsel for the New Republic, attempts to update the definition of "journalist" for the Internet age. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark calls the book "timely and important."

American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media
by Neil Henry
Former Washington Post correspondent Neil Henry argues that the decline of journalistic professionalism sparked by the economic challenge of new media poses serious implications for democracy.

When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
by W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence and Steven Livingston
The American press is becoming so enamored of power and politics that it is failing to act as a watchdog, claim journalism professors Lance Bennett, Regina Lawrence and Steven Livingston.

Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources
by Norman Pearlstine
Former Time Inc. boss Norman Pearlstine probes the Valerie Plame case and "uses it to reexamine the rules of engagement between reporters and sources," says Aspen Institute head Walter Issacson.

Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media
by Eric Klinenberg
New York University professor Eric Klinenberg argues that the demise of local media -- preprogrammed radio shows, copycat newspapers -- stems from neglect by the U.S. government.

Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else
by Reporters of the Associated Press
A team of former and current Associated Press journalists reveals the stories behind some of history's biggest news events in the first book about the news cooperative in more than 60 years.

Mission Al Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
by Josh Rushing
Former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing argues that if we are to win the war on terror, we have to interact with the media at home and abroad in order to control the way we are perceived.

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
by Lee and Bob Woodruff
ABC news man Bob Woodruff and his wife, PR exec Lee Woodruff, share their story of resilience and survival after Bob was seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in January 2006.

William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951
by Ben Procter
The second and concluding volume in a bio of William Randolph Hearst by Texas Christian University professor Ben Procter delves into the media mogul's final years, including his failed political career.

The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman
by Leo Lerman
Leo Lerman, who died in 1994, was a longtime features editor at Vogue and an editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. His journals serve up gossip on the Kennedys, Truman Capote, Marlene Dietrich, etc.

The Lady Upstairs: Dorothy Schiff and the New York Post
by Marilyn Nissenson
Pioneering newspaper woman Dolly Schiff, who published the New York Post from 1939 to 1976, when she sold to Rupert Murdoch, is described as "profoundly human in her distinctive paradoxes."

We Love Magazines
by S. Armstrong
"We Love Magazines" offers a 400-page exploration of magazines and magazine culture around the world, featuring analysis of groundbreaking moments and titles in magazine publishing.

How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
by Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer
Writers Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer compose a "love letter" to Sassy magazine, a teen cult favorite of the late '80s and '90s. The title is said to have offered teen girls "a new way of seeing themselves."

Virtual Worlds: Rewiring Your Emotional Future
by Jack Myers with Jerry Weinstein
Jack Myers, publisher of Jack Myers Media Business Report, reviews the opportunities for individuals, corporations, advertising and media companies to build marketing campaigns in virtual worlds.

Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace
by Noah Kerner and Gene Pressman
Marketing exec Noah Kerner and Barneys New York co-CEO Gene Pressman interview innovators about how to make a product cool. Bonnie Fuller reveals: "I don't believe in creation by committee."

Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
This debut novel from former advertising man Joshua Ferris, about a Chicago ad agency facing layoffs at the end of the '90s boom, is "wildly funny," says Publishers Weekly.

American Outrage
by Tim Green
A correspondent for a tabloid television news show called "American Outrage" becomes tabloid fodder himself in this thriller by novelist Tim Green. Green is a former host of TV's "A Current Affair."

Gloss
by Jennifer Oko
Jennifer Oko, a producer for CBS's 'Early Show," gives morning television the "Devil Wears Prada" treatment with this novel, says Radar Online, with one character "inspired" by Katie Couric.

Little Pink Slips
by Sally Koslow
Sally Koslow, a former editor in chief of McCall's, is said to be providing a somewhat fictionalized account of Rosie O'Donnell's takeover of the leading women's magazine.

Lethally Blond
by Kate White
Magazine reporter Bailey Weggins makes her fifth appearance in this murder mystery "teeming with TV types and PR people," written by Kate White, Cosmopolitan editor in chief.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2006
by American Society of Magazine Editors
National Magazine Award winners and finalists are recognized in this new collection. "These articles manage to sing as beautifully as they did when they first appeared in print," writes Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in the intro.

The Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology
by David Plotz (Editor)
The Web performs "intelligent synthesis of the news a lot better than the traditional newsmagazines," writes Slate founding editor Michael Kinsley in the foreward to this dead-tree anthology of the online magazine's best reporting.

Fast Company's Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business
by David Lidsky (Editor)
Fast Company is rounding up its cutting-edge business ideas into a collection that includes some of the magazine's most buzz-generating articles, including "The Brand Called You," by Tom Peters, and "Free Agent Nation," by Daniel Pink.

Spy: The Funny Years
by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter, George Kalogerakis
This "greatest hits" collection from the snarky Spy magazine of the late '80s-early '90s is "the next best thing to an announcement that the magazine is resuming publication," says one fan in a posting on Amazon.com.

The Last Magazine: Magazines in Transition
by David Renard
This visual anthology presents current boutique periodicals that are so cutting-edge, "they will continue to flourish in print even as their mainstream contemporaries move to digital."

The Dog Dialed 911: A Book of Lists from The Smoking Gun
by The Smoking Gun
Not only did The Smoking Gun shatter James Frey's literary career into a million little pieces, the Web site also posted many "stranger than fiction" true stories, as evidenced in this collection of reporting.

The NewsBreaker: A Behind the Scenes Look at the News Media
by Larry Garrison
"News broker" Larry Garrison describes how top stories are "found, manipulated and released to the public," and promises to reveal insider info on Terri Schiavo, TWA Flight 800, Jon Benet Ramsey and other "gritty" news reports.

Newsworld
by Todd James Pierce
News is "one of the few things that connects us as a nation," notes the protagonist in the title story of "Newsworld," a collection of short stories by Todd James Pierce that explores America's obsession with pop culture.

Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age
by Henry Jenkins
MIT professor Henry Jenkins charts the growth of participatory culture on the Web, describing blogging as perhaps the most powerful illustration of how consumer participation impacts mainstream media.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Wikinomics "heralds the biggest change in collaboration to date," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "Thanks to the Internet, masses of people outside of traditional hierarchies can produce content. In order to understand the opportunities, read this book."

The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
by Steven Levy
For the fifth anniversary of the iPod, Newsweek technology writer Stephen Levy offers a paean to "the most familiar, and certainly the most desirable, new object of the twenty-first century," according to Publishers Weekly.

iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon
by Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith
Stephen Wozniak relates how he "invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple and had fun doing it." The book is "about growing up in Silicon Valley at a watershed time for electronics and computing," says USA Today.

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by Neal Gabler
Author Neal Gabler is said to be the first writer to gain complete access to the Disney archives for this acclaimed bio of "synergistic empire" founder Walt Disney, arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century American culture.

Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media
by Jeff Cohen
Producer/pundit Jeff Cohen offers a "fast-paced romp" through the three major cable news channels -- Fox, CNN, and MSNBC -- and delivers a serious message about their "failure" to cover the important issues of the day.

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