Download or read book Born Into Journalism Memoir of a Newspaper Reporter written by Kayode Soyinka and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, let me warn that writing a memoir can be a very sensitive venture, especially because one is exposing oneself, one's family, friends, acquaintances and other people whose names have to be mentioned. Writing a memoir is not writing fiction. A memoir must be factual. Most of the people I have mentioned in this memoir are people with whom I have interacted, or worked closely with; people who have contributed in one way or another to what I am today as a journalist and publisher; and even, if I may say so, as a person. This is the true story of my relationship and experiences with them. I apologise if anyone of them feels embarrassed or offended that they are mentioned or revealed. It is not intentional. I have only written my memoir, which is the true story of my life and career. I am alone responsible for any errors of fact or interpretations in this book.
Download or read book BORN INTO JOURNALISM Memoir of a Newspaper Reporter written by KAYODE SOYINKA and published by Kayode Soyinka. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the perfect guide and self-help book for young journalists who are aspiring to pursue their career by following their ideals. The true essence of journalism has been kept alive in this book for everyone to understand the demands and benefits of this profession. There is a lot more than what meets the eye.
Download or read book News to Me written by Laurie Hertzel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Oh, and Newspaper doggedly outlasted the full-color Magapaper.) --Book Jacket.
Download or read book A Reporter s Life written by Walter Cronkite and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR." --The Wall Street Journal "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year." --Ann Landers "Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century--events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work." --The New York Times Book Review A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB
Download or read book Newspaper Days written by H.L. Mencken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period covered is that of his professional nonage—from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906. It was not all Baltimore, however, for he went into brief exile when the fire of 1904 destroyed the plant and forced the paper to print in Philadelphia for five weeks. During those roaring years the young journalist did little, if anything, to bring uplift to his city, nor did he become an influential figure in the councils of state or nation. But he did gain a rare knowledge of his community in all its more colorful and uproarious aspects; and he has set them down here in his own inimitable way. It is not the great events of civic life that draw his attention, not the respectable—and dull—doings of respectable citizens. Rather it is the caperings of the judiciary on their days off, the mysterious and melancholy ways of the commercial artists who haunted the newspaper offices of the period, the peccadilloes and generosities of cops and cabbies, of madams and Baltimore’s omnipresent Afro-Americans that make up the bulk of this highly personal memoir. As such it brings to livid life the whole of an American city of sixty years ago. It is a book to read and savor, not only for its constant delightful humor, but for its fine picture of the salad days of American journalism as well.
Download or read book Blind Journey written by Jack Hawn and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncharted and beyond his control for the most part, Jack Hawn's career simply happened. He never studied journalism and never aspired to be a writer. After almost four years assigned to the army's public information offices, he faced civilian life with a wife, infant daughter, wild ambition, bursting optimism, unshakeable confidence - and no job. Eventually, he found work as a copyboy at a Hollywood newspaper, was paid $5 to review plays and nightclub acts, and a year later filled a sports desk vacancy. As years passed, he earned extra income as a television dramatist and wrote TV and radio scripts for sportscasters. When the paper folded in 1970, he was hired at the Los Angeles Times, where he worked in sports and entertainment. During Jack Hawn's amazing 43-year career, he covered Muhammad Ali title fights, boxing at the 1984 Olympics, Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and other celebrities until his retirement in 1991. Whether you're an aspiring or veteran journalist or just want a book filled with aspiration and adventure, Blind Journey is a work you'll keep pulling off your bookshelf to read time and time again. About the Author: Born January 25, 1930, in Kearney, Nebraska, Jack Hawn grew up in Southern California, graduated from San Fernando High School in 1947, and after one year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, enlisted in the U.S. Army. He and his wife Charlene celebrated 59 years of marriage June 2, 2010. They reside in Sun City West, Arizona, and have four children, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandkids. Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/BlindJourney.html
Download or read book Reporter written by Seymour M. Hersh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." —John le Carré From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time—a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a decades-long career breaking some of the most impactful stories of the last half-century, from Washington to Vietnam to the Middle East. Seymour Hersh's fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every major newspaper in the free world, honors galore, and no small amount of controversy. Now in this memoir he describes what drove him and how he worked as an independent outsider, even at the nation's most prestigious publications. He tells the stories behind the stories—riveting in their own right—as he chases leads, cultivates sources, and grapples with the weight of what he uncovers, daring to challenge official narratives handed down from the powers that be. In telling these stories, Hersh divulges previously unreported information about some of his biggest scoops, including the My Lai massacre and the horrors at Abu Ghraib. There are also illuminating recollections of some of the giants of American politics and journalism: Ben Bradlee, A. M. Rosenthal, David Remnick, and Henry Kissinger among them. This is essential reading on the power of the printed word at a time when good journalism is under fire as never before.
Download or read book Donald written by Donald Upham Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-12-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DONALDS WORLD leads on a young boys trip to the top of the tallest building between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s When he returned home he climbed a 60-feet tree in his back yard to see from a distance where he had been. Who is this boy? The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to his mothers commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is released under his care and gardianship. Chapter 3 explores the family tree and adventures by those who made the Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure. It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return to Tennesee from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100 hours! Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt know until she died many years later that her middle name was Charity. The headline for Chapter 6 is The White Avenue Gang. Donald recalls being only a bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand to start World War I. Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days, summer work in the Sierra before joining the Navy and being saved by bombs that crushed two Japanese cities. He cast his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes went only to Republicans. During college Marcia and Don where married before their sophomore year. After graduation Don joined UP and 34 year career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail [email protected]
Download or read book My Paper Chase written by Harold Evans and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and whip-smart memoir from the legendary editor who spent decades leading newspapers in London and New York. In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map. He discusses his passion for the crusading style of reportage he championed, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch, and his struggle to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate. There's a star-studded cast and a tremendously vivid sense of what once was: the lead type, the smell of the presses, eccentrics throughout, and angry editors screaming over the intercoms. My Paper Chase tells the story of Evans's great loves: newspapers and Tina Brown, the bright, young journalist who became his wife. In an age when newspapers everywhere are under threat, My Paper Chase is not just a glorious recounting of an amazing life, but a nostalgic journey in black and white.
Download or read book News to Me written by Laurie Hertzel and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of journalist Laurie Hertzel, discussing how she first got into the newspaper business even before she was a teenager and how her career took off from there in Duluth, Minnesota.
Download or read book The Last Editor written by James G. Bellows and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir covers the rough-and-tumble career of the powerful editor who challenged America's three most powerful newspapers: "The New York Times, The Washington Post" and the "L.A. Times." In "The Last Editor" Bellows' associates write short takes about their times under his editing hand.
Download or read book Somebody s Gotta Tell It written by Jack Newfield and published by Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Newfield has covered it all: he has documented he unfolding drama of the 1960s; followed the boxing careers of Ali and Tyson; taken on city hall; and kept his integrity intact in the rough world of tabloid politics. Somebody's Gotta Tell It is the clear-eyed memoir of a journalist whose love for his country, and passion for his profession, has never wavered. "Fast-written, rat-a-tat-tat memoir." -Chicago Sun Times "Jack Newfield is an old-fashioned newspaperman, skeptical, passionate, and brave. He really tells it in Somebody's Gotta Tell It-an absorbing and appealing memoir of a life committed to honest politics, honest sport, and honest journalism." -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "Newfield has made it his life's mission to uncover and share significant truths about important people and events. No one has done the work better, nor described it as well as he has in this brilliant and engaging memoir. This book is a great telling of American history-music, culture, sports, and civil rights." -Mario Cuomo "We count our blessings in having memorable crusaders for social justice who do not let their zeal override their commitment to professional integrity. In the golden company of Lincoln Steffens and Heywood Broun, let's welcome Jack Newfield. He writes with the sharp eye of the trained observer and the engaged heart of the humanist." -Budd Schulberg "In a time when American journalism is getting its shares of slings and arrows, Jack Newfield stands out as a national treasure. I can't think of anyone among us today, as this book amply demonstrates, who brings a more passionate commitment to his craft." -Peter Maas "He does not stop. He is the loudest liberal voice in a time of timid whispers. Always, Newfield's hands plunge into the muck, to pull out the truth. This fine memoir shows how much Newfield has seen, and been involved in, of what happened in our nation. And he tells it to us in the swift sentences of one who knows what he is writing about." -Jimmy Breslin "Enthralling, moving, and sometimes poignant, this book is a must for anyone who cares about the cutting edge of our times." -Richard North Patterson
Download or read book Never in My Wildest Dreams written by Belva Davis and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering TV news journalist shares her extraordinary story in this acclaimed memoir: “A very important book” (Dr. Maya Angelou). As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news over the course of five decades. Born in the Great Depression to a fifteen-year-old Louisiana laundress, and raised in the projects of Oakland, California, Davis persevered to achieve a career beyond her imagination. Davis has seen profound changes in America, from being verbally and physically attacked while reporting on the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco to witnessing the historic election of Barack Obama in 2008. She reported on some of the most explosive stories in modern American history, including the Vietnam War protests, the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the mass suicides at Jonestown, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and many others. She encountered everyone from Malcolm X to Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Ronald Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Condoleezza Rice, and more. Davis spent her career on the frontlines of the battle for racial equality, bringing stories of black Americans into the light of day. Still active in her seventies, Davis hosted a news roundtable at one of the nation’s leading PBS stations. In this way she remained engaged in contemporary journalism, while offering her unique perspective on the decades that have shaped us.
Download or read book Trailblazer written by Dorothy Butler Gilliam and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S. Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems commonplace today-people of color working in mainstream media. Told with a pioneering newspaper writer's charm and skill, Gilliam's full, fascinating life weaves her personal and professional experiences and media history into an engrossing tapestry. When we read about the death of her father and other formative events of her life, we glimpse the crippling impact of the segregated South before the civil rights movement when slavery's legacy still felt astonishingly close. We root for her as a wife, mother, and ambitious professional as she seizes once-in-a-lifetime opportunities never meant for a "dark-skinned woman" and builds a distinguished career. We gain a comprehensive view of how the media, especially newspapers, affected the movement for equal rights in this country. And in this humble, moving memoir, we see how an innovative and respected journalist and working mother helped provide opportunities for others. With the distinct voice of one who has worked for and witnessed immense progress and overcome heart-wrenching setbacks, this book covers a wide swath of media history -- from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity. This timely memoir, which reflects the tradition of boot-strapping African American storytelling from the South, is a smart, contemporary consideration of the media.
Download or read book Buying the Night Flight written by Georgie Anne Geyer and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Buying the Night Flight Georgie Anne Geyer, one of the first American women to cover wars abroad, tells of her thrilling rise from cub reporter to foreign correspondent as she made her way into the male-dominated world of journalism. Born from thirty years of reporting experience, Geyer transports the reader to Guatemala, Cuba, Egypt, Russia, and Cambodia, recounting the history and politics, adventure and extremism of the times with rare insight, humor, and passion. Told with a brilliance and dead-on honesty, this book vividly captures the triumphs of a determined and talented young reporter.
Download or read book Deep South Dispatch written by John N. Herbers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.
Download or read book Sonny s Story written by Rollan Melton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular myth, anyone can make it to the top in America, no matter how humble his or her origins. That may be true, but few have faced greater challenges along the way than did Rollan Melton. Sonny, as he was called when he was young, was born into a dysfunctional family in Boise, Idaho, at the beginning of the Great Depression. A child of divorce, young Sonny drifted for years from home to home, from town to town, living sometimes with his mother, sometimes with his father, and sometimes with relatives. When he dropped out of school in the ninth grade, a dim future seemed assured. In 1946 Sonny at last found himself in a stable situation, and his life began to change for the better. At Fallon High School, he was taken under wing by the schools football coach, who introduced him to the joys of athletic achievement, competitive sports, and teamwork. Sonny also found after-school employment as a printers devil with the Fallon Standard, a weekly newspaper. He received a Harolds Club scholarship to the University of Nevada, where he majored in journalism and played football. Following a stint in the army, he became a sportswriter for a Reno newspaper. At the age of thirty-two, he was named the editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal; at thirty-five, he was the papers publisher; and two years later he became the vice president of the Speidel newspaper group. He went on to become president of Speidel and a vice president and director of Gannett. In 1978, at the age of forty-seven, Melton resigned his vice presidency to return to Reno and to writing. His memoir is an unflinching examination that does not shrink from discussing the emotional pain and deprivation of his youth. It is also an American success story of almost mythic proportions.
