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"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor-and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...
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"Introduction by Amal Clooney From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Kind, quiet Tannie Maria isn't a woman who draws much notice. She leads a solitary life, writing recipes for the local gazette, cooking with ingredients from her garden, and chatting with her pet chicken, Morag. When Maria becomes the newspaper's advice columnist, she peppers her responses with delectable recipes to help people fix their problems. But after a woman who wrote to her turns up dead, Maria and her colleague, rookie journalist Jessie,...
4) Long shot
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A New York journalist gets hired as a speechwriter for a presidential candidate who, as it turns out, was his babysitter and secret love interest during his teenage years.
5) Bombshell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Follows three women who stand up against sexual harassment by Fox News head Roger Ailes.
7) She Said
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
8) The Post
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
9) City of lies
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains cold, and why a secretive division of the LAPD is seemingly set on keeping it that way.
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