# Two new OA books from mediastudies.press, a new scholar-led publisher # We are excited to announce the release of two new open access books from mediastudies.press—the first titles in our Public Domain series: ## Our Master's Voice, by James Rorty (1934) ## “I was an ad-man once,” James Rorty writes in this classic dissection of the advertising industry. A neglected masterpiece, the book is republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Jefferson Pooley. PDF (free) | ePub (free) | Mobi (free) | Paperback ($20) https://www.mediastudies.press/masters-voice ## Liberty and the News, by Walter Lippmann (1920) ## Published a century ago as the young Walter Lippmann’s fifth book, the slim volume merits a fresh read in our post-truth moment. Republished in this mediastudies.press edition with a new introduction by Sue Curry Jansen. PDF (free) | ePub (free) | Mobi (free) | Paperback ($10) https://www.mediastudies.press/liberty-and-the-news *** mediastudies.press is a new, open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields. Launched in 2019, the press is nonprofit, scholar-led, and fee-free. We publish living works, with iterative updates stitched into our process. And we encourage multi-modal submissions that reflect the mediated environments our authors study: https://www.mediastudies.press/about We publish open access works in three series: * Public Domain: https://www.mediastudies.press/public-domain-series * Open Reader: https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series * History of Media Studies: https://www.mediastudies.press/history-of-media-studies We are also launching a journal, *History of Media Studies*, in 2021, dedicated to scholarship on the history of media, film, and communication research and education: https://hms.mediastudies.press Best, Jeff Poooley --------- Jeff Pooley press@mediastudies.press Director, mediastudies.press Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College jeffpooley.com