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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks to those who have posted recently about their new works. It is nice to see such good research being done by our community. I want to do all I can to encourage all of us to post our new works here, articles, books, chapters, and the like. It makes it easier to get that work into our hands when we do so.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, I’ll add a new book just released:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Donal Carbaugh and Michael Berry. <i>Reporting cultures on 60 Minutes: Missing the Finnish line in an American broadcast</i>. (Routledge, 2017).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%'>This is a book about reporting as a cultural practice of communication. The authors explore several ways reports are constructed and used by the media: some as officially prepared as when done by journalists; others as less officially done as by ourselves or others in everyday routines. Examined in detail is a report about Finnish culture that was constructed in a segment of the television program, <i>60 Minutes</i>. This brings into view journalistic practices of reporting culture but also Finnish lay people reporting, American lay people reporting, with each reporting not only about their homeland but also about the other’s ways of doing things. This range of reporting practices gives voice to deeply cultural dynamics which are at play in international affairs on such a multicultural stage.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%'>I hope you find the book of interest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%'>Donal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor of Communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Integrative Learning Center S324<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Massachusetts Amherst<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amherst, MA 01003 USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>