Synopsis
Newspaper is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object as seen by journalist Maggie Messitt in the two democratic nations she calls home - the United States and South Africa.
The "first draft of history," newspapers figure prominently through each movement and period of unrest in both nations-from the first colonial papers published by slave traders and advocates for press freedom to those published on ID cards, wallpaper, and folio sheets during civil wars.
Newspaper reflects on a tool that has been used to both push down and rise up. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy to and to holding the powerful to account.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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About the Author
Maggie Messitt is a journalist, author, and social entrepreneur. She was the founder of Amazwi, a rural non-profit media organization in South Africa that trained women journalists, and publisher of its award-winning newspaper, The Villager. She later became the founding national director of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to address critical coverage gaps. Messitt is currently the Norman Eberly Professor of Practice and Director of the News Lab at Penn State University. Her first book, The Rainy Season: Three Lives in the New South Africa, was long-listed for the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in South Africa.
Ian Bogost is an author and an award-winning game designer. He is Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, Director of Film & Media Studies, and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Bogost is also Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, an independent game studio, and a Contributing Editor at The Atlantic. Bogost is author or co-author of ten books, including Alien Phenomenology (2012) and Play Anything (2016).
Christopher Schaberg is Director of the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2012), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), Searching for the Anthropocene (2019), Pedagogy of the Depressed (2021), and Adventure: An Argument for Limits (2023), all published by Bloomsbury. He is also the founding co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book series.
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