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Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Narrated by the late CBS News correspondent Charles Kuralt, This Reporter presents a compellingly candid portrait of Murrow's illustrious career and features rarely-seen clips from CBS News Archives and interviews with his esteemed peers. From his gutsy search for journalistic truths during the McCarthy era to his celebrated Person to Person chats with Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando, this in-depth documentary explores how Murrow's poineering work...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope. When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and lake, it was a coup on many counts: a strike for the well being of a rural...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An accomplished ghostwriter and book researcher goes behind the scenes of America's capital to document the story of how she survived cutthroat Beltway dynamics and discovered her voice at the sides of such figures as Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Hillary Clinton,"--NoveList.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur traces his storied career, sharing insights into his tenures with "Rolling Stone" and "Sports Illustrated," as well as his literary encounters with such personalities as Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, and Steve Jobs.
68) Prime time
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally investigates an e-mail link to a multimillion-dollar fraud ring before encountering a handsome and suspiciously helpful man who she is unsure she can trust.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of the finest New York Times columns written by Roger Cohen, and an extended commentary on the years in which he wrote them"--
"A“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from the streets of...
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, compiler Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers. These are, first and foremost, brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects: accompanying a mountaineering expedition to Everest, working as a prison guard, spending nearly a decade...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A CBS reporter reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, American journalists transmitted news across the country by telegraph. But what happened when these stories weren't true? In Bad News Travels Fast, Patrick C. File examines a series of libel cases by a handful of plaintiffsincluding socialites, businessmen, and Annie Oakleywho sued newspapers across the country for republishing false newswire reports. Through these cases, File demonstrates how law and technology...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his....
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning nearly a century, The Great American Sports Page presents essential columns from more than three dozen masters of the press-box craft, unforgettable dispatches from World Series, Super Bowls, and legendary title bouts written with passion, spontaneity, humor, and a gift for the memorable phrase. Read avidly day in and day out by a sports-mad public, these columnists became journalistic celebrities in their home cities, their coverage trusted...
75) Cries & whiskers
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Caught up in her probe into a dangerous new designer drug, reporter Theda Krakow puts her investigation on hold when an animal rights activist, who had been struggling to rescue feral cats on the eve of a ferocious winter storm, is killed in a hit-and-run accident.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays and essay fragments John McPhee wrote over the course of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why"--
A literary legend’s engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing,...
Author
Publisher
Mims House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses swore this wasn't a whale, but some new, fearsome creature. As eyewitness account piled up, newspaper stories of the sea monster spread quickly. Across the nation, people shivered in fear. Then,...
Author
Publisher
Superior Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1965]
Language
English
Description
"This book is not meant to be an academic dates-and-places report of the pioneer journals of Western America. While great pains have been taken to establish historical authenticity, the author's chief goal has been to recreate the flavor and the atmosphere of newspapering on the frontier"--Page 7.
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