Monday, April 8, 2019

Read All About It: Journalists on the Job


If No News, Send Rumors

 Journalists travel all over the world in pursuit of their stories, from the halls of power in Washington D.C. and Moscow, to the war zones of Vietnam, Somalia, and Iraq. They go undercover and in disguise to some of the most dangerous places on Earth. They are eye-witnesses to the profound depths of the human heart and to the vagaries of nature. They report back to us about small-town elections and bloody revolutions, and about broken traffic lights and the devastation of tsunamis. 


War Reporting for Cowards
    And sometimes the treacheries and absurdities are to be found right here at home, in the behind-the-scenes decisions of America’s newsrooms. 

    To experience their lives - however viscerally - here are some of our books by and about investigative journalists. These books feature accounts from World War II, the Civil Rights era of the 1960’s, the 2016 presidential campaign, and from terrorists’ training camps. What made the headlines and what was edited out… and why? 



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