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The Best American Newspaper Narratives of 2012
George Getschow
University of North Texas Press, 2014

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 2
George Getschow
University of North Texas Press, 2015

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 3
Gayle Reaves
University of North Texas Press, 2016

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 4
Gayle Reaves
University of North Texas Press, 2017

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 5
Gayle Reaves
University of North Texas Press, 2018

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 6
Gayle Reaves
University of North Texas Press, 2019

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 7
Gayle Reaves
University of North Texas Press, 2020

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The Economy of Prestige
Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value
James F. English
Harvard University Press, 2008

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige.

Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.

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The Official YALSA Awards Guidebook
American Library Association
American Library Association, 2008

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Pulitzer's Gold
Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism
Roy J. Harris, Jr.
University of Missouri Press, 2008
No journalism awards are awaited with as much anticipation as the Pulitzer Prizes. Andamong those Pulitzers, none is more revered than the Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal.
 
Pulitzer’s Gold is the first book to trace the ninety-year history of the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded annually to a newspaper rather than to individuals, in the form of that Gold Medal. Exploring this service-journalism legacy, Roy Harris recalls dozens of “stories behind the stories,” often allowing the journalists involved to share their own accounts. Harris takes his Gold Medal saga through two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam era before bringing public-service journalism into a twenty-first century that includes 9/11, a Catholic Church scandal, and corporate exposés. Pulitzer’s Gold offers a new way of looking at journalism history and practice and a new lens through which to view America’s own story.
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Pura Belpré Awards
Celebrating Latino Authors and Illustrators
Rose Zertuche Treviño
American Library Association, 2006


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