Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete By Sharon Wheeler 4 July
Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction, edited by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton Book of the week: Dream homes, women on the edge, murder ¨C we¡¯ve been here before, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 2 August
Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead, by Jessica M.?Fishman From Hillsborough to rape victims, a study mulls the place of emotive images, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 18 January
The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach, by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders Book of the week: Sharon Wheeler investigates how mystery writers play a guessing game with their reader-sleuths By Sharon Wheeler 13 July
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts By Sharon Wheeler 22 June
Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes ¨C Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers, by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi A whistle-stop tour of criminals¡¯ texts is packed with listicles and promises, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 30 March
The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, by Wendy Gamber The tale of a shocking killing falls short as true crime and as social history, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 1 December
Skewed: A Critical Thinker¡¯s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 8 September
Behind the Wireless: An?Early History of Women at the BBC, by Kate Murphy Well-researched portraits of female pioneers and game gals capture the buzz around the Beeb as women entered the professions, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 7 July
The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction, by John Walton The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 17 December
The News From Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington¡¯s Victory, by Brian Cathcart Frolics abound in a tale of how the 1815 triumph hit the front pages, writes Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 2 July
