Selling rights: Changes and challenges for rights professionals

• The new edition of Selling Rights by Lynette Owen is an opportunity to pause and take stock of the changes and challenges for rights people at the turn of the decade.
• Revenues accruing to UK publishers from rights sales has increased by over 22% in the past 5 years.
• The recent and controversial European Union Copyright Directive and Brexit will undoubtedly impact selling rights, but as yet, we do not know what that impact will be.
• Technology plays a role both in changing the kinds of rights being licensed and in helping the management of rights sales to be carried out more efficiently.
• It is vital that rights metadata is developed and implemented to ensure improved efficiency in rights management.
• Rights Management Practice will need to evolve in response to the climate emergency.

     

Jimmy Carter on human rights: A thematic analysis

The analysis of Jimmy Carter's public statements on human rights reveals a calculated attempt to infuse an ambiguous catch phrase or slogan with the symbolic power of an ultimate term.     

A world bibliography of selected periodicals on broadcasting

The authors designed two instructional units—role‐playing and traditional—to examine if young children can be taught general and specific intent of television commercials. The results demonstrate that both treatment groups of children, ages six to seven, experienced significant increases in understanding of commercials.     

A selected bibliography of dissertations on radio studies

This essay chronicles the early history of New York radio station WEVDAM. Erected as a monument to socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs, WEVD was an electronic voice for the socialist ideas and causes that Debs championed. This essay examines how WEVD struggled to defend its license to become an early radio pioneer for socialist rhetoric and, through the process, guaranteed access to the airwaves for minority viewpoints. These struggles occurred during the formative years of broadcast regulation, and WEVD played a significant role in defining the public interest standard for American broadcasting.     

Broadcast Journalism

Thomas R. Asher and J. Victor Hahn's Broadcast Media Guide for Candidates (Washington: Media Access Project, 1910 N Street N.W., 1974—price not given, but about $3.00, paper).

Bruce Herschensohn's The Gods of Antenna (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975—$7.95)

Robert M. Batscha's Foreign Affairs News and the Broadcast Journalist (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975-$15.00)

Stanley Field's The Mini-Documentary: Serializing TV News (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1975—$12.95)

Walter Winchell's Winchell Exclusive (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975—$8.95)     

Broadcast Journalism

Edward Bliss Jr. and John M. Patterson's Writing News for Broadcast (New York: Columbia University Press, 1971 – $13.50)

David Dary's Television News Handbook (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., Tab Books, 1971 – $9.95)

Bob Thomas' Winchell (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971 – $7.95)     

Broadcast Journalism

Edwin Diamond's Good News, Bad News (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1978---S12.50)

Laurily Keir Epstein, ed. Women and the News (New York: Hastings House, 1978---$12.50)

Gates, Gary Paul. Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News (New York: Harper & Row, 1978---$12.95)

Barrett, Marvin. Rich News, Poor News: The Sixth Alfred I. duPont--Columbia University Survey of Broadcast Journalism (New York: Crowell, 1978---$12.95/ 5.95)

General Communications (partial list of contents)     

《新闻联播》样本分析及研究

本文通过对《新闻联播》的样本分析 ,研究了《联播》中新闻的状况和特性 ,在此基础上提出了改进意见和建议。     

Television and radio program ratings and measurements: A selected and annotated bibliography

Following testimony dealing with the role played by television audience ratings in determining whether a given program will or will not be kept on the air, Chairman Oren Harris of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce requested the American Statistical Association to examine, describe, and evaluate the statistical reliability and validity of the various commercial rating services. The ASA's Technical Committee on Broadcast Ratings, under the Chairmanship of William G. Madow, produced its report early in 1961. It was published by the House Commerce Committee in March, under the title, Evaluation of Statistical Methods Used in Obtaining Broadcast Ratings (House Report 193, 87th Congress, 1st Session).

Although the entire report is highly technical, it is recommended to all those seriously interested in the rating services and their standards. For those without the statistical background to understand certain portions of the report, attention is called to more easily read articles, such as Harrison B. Summers’ “Qualitative Information Concerning Audiences of Network Television Programs”; (which appeared on pp. 147–160 of this issue of the Journal) as well as general articles cited in the bibliography that follows.     

Readers theatre bibliography

Several recent developments in rhetorical theory display a disturbing tendency to overemphasize change at the expense of enduring elements of the rhetorical tradition. These tendencies, which include attention to symbolism as an end in itself and accentuation of rhetorical methodology over substantive considerations, obfuscate the core concepts of rhetoric and detract from the purposes of a fully humane rhetoric. In contrast, a renewed sense of the permanent aspects of the rhetorical tradition is found in the centrality of language in human experience and is manifest in several key dimensions. Language as a means of exploration and education, as a form of social transformation, and as a means of vision and valuation are discussed as constituting a permanent core in rhetorical theory and forming the basis of rhetoric as a humane and, substantive art.     

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