CUNY J-Press’ debut title to be released early next year

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Our first title, to be published in January 2013, will be Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution, by Andy Carvin, senior social media strategist at NPR. Learn more about Andy Carvin and Distant Witness.

Other scheduled books from the CUNY Journalism Press:

Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of The Pentagon Papers, by James Goodale, the longtime New York Times attorney who offers the inside story of one of the landmark legal cases in American journalism history, and the repercussions of that case four decades later.

The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Nat Hentoff’s Life in Journalism, Jazz and the First Amendment by David L. Lewis, visiting professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and former CBS “60 Minutes” producer.

Investigative Journalism in America: A History by Steve Weinberg, a founder of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a faculty member at the University of Missouri Journalism School.