I’m the author or co-author of nine books. The newest, Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: Changing the News, is scheduled for publication in late 2024/early 2025.
Journalism and the Pandemic: Essays on Adaptation and Innovation, with a foreword by Bill Whitaker of CBS “60 Minutes” was published in 2022
Dyslexia and the Journalist: Battling a Silent Disability (cover above), was published by McFarland Publishing in 2021. It features profiles of, among others, Anderson Cooper, Richard Engel, and Byron Pitts, as well as background on dyslexia and resources for journalists to improve coverage of the subject.
The biography Robert Pierpoint: A Life at CBS News, with the foreword by Bob Schieffer of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” was published in 2014.
It’s available at Amazon.com or from McFarlandbooks.com.
Power Performance: Multimedia Storytelling for Journalism and Public Relations, foreword by Lester Holt of NBC News, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in May, 2011.
Power Performance was named by Innovation Investment Journal as among the top 20 social media books published in 2011! See the full list here.
Power Performance is available for purchase here from amazon.com
This book is a unique and definitive guide to the skills necessary for on-camera journalism and offers an invaluable behind-the-scenes look at the profession.
*Tailors the traditional skills of writing, reporting, and producing to the needs of journalists working in front of the camera
*Includes chapters devoted to the role of the storyteller, reporting the story across multiple platforms, and presenting the story on-camera
*Incorporates profiles of leading multimedia journalists and public relations practitioners
*Addresses the key ethical issues for the profession
*Offers practical advice for putting presentation skills to work
*Storytelling skills covered can be applied to a variety of traditional and new media formats including television news, radio, and podcast
Global News: Perspectives on the Information Age (2001)
Foreword by Wolf Blitzer
Contains 16 essays by notable journalists like Corey Flintoff of NPR and Ted Koppel, as well as essays on news ethics and technology by Tony Silvia. This anthology is designed as a bridge between working journalists and academics in the field. It has been used as a text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in the U.S., Germany, Japan, and Egypt. Buy here.
Baseball Over the Air: America’s Pastime On the Radio and in the Imagination (2007)
This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) and illuminates each in a unique manner. It integrates radio and baseball historically, sociologically, and culturally using the common themes of imaginative expression. This book is a unique approach into the magic of radio’s imaginative power. Broadcasting baseball on the radio has brought many millions of Americans an imaginative link to a game that is built upon recollections of athletic achievement that ring far truer in our “sweet imaginations.” Through the use of our imaginations, we can see the game itself as more than just a game, but a gateway to an imaginative realm beyond the reality of everyday life. Buy here.
Fathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting (2009)
Foreword by Chip Caray
In this work, first-hand accounts and original interviews illuminate how the father-son relationship thrives because of baseball, and, sometimes, in spite of it. Each of these men bears a legendary name in baseball broadcasting–Caray, Brennaman, Buck and Kalas–and some can count four generations of men whose voices defined a team. All of the sons relate how their fathers’ names opened doors for them but concurrently raised expectations of how they should perform, and all relate how they learned from their fathers’ (and grandfathers’) triumphs and mistakes. Throughout the work, a clear picture of baseball as a generational bridge emerges. Includes a foreword by Chip Caray, speeches by Joe Buck about his father Jack, and articles by Skip Caray, Chip Caray and Marty Brennaman. Buy here.
Student Television in America: Channels of Change (1998)
Help! That’s the plea from thousands of students at universities, colleges and even high schools who want to launch a TV station but don’t know where to start. It’s also the cry of the faculty advisors assigned to guide them. Veteran broadcasting professionals Tony Silvia and Nancy Kaplan heard these pleas and responded with this comprehensive volume, Student Television in America: Channels of Change. For the first time in a single work, students and advisors can learn what they need to know to start, market, maintain and refine a student television station. The book begins with a brief history of student television and then digs into the nuts and bolts, including discussions of basic equipment, staffing needs and production methods. It explains the business end of running a successful student TV station and explores the important topics of troubleshooting, social responsibility and technology of the future. Extensive interviews and case studies provide valuable insights from those already working in the field. Buy here.