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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating biography of the maverick newspaperwoman, equestrian, aviatrix and intrepid adventurer Alicia Patterson, which follows her exceptional exploits through the first half of the 20th century, from her troublemaking days as the middle child of complicated parents to her successes as publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning Newsday"--
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton reporter volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Geronimo Stilton gets signed up for a dating app, will he get matched with the rodent of his dreams, or will it be a mismatch? Thea Stilton worries Geronimo Stilton, her brother and famouse Editor-in-Chief of The Rodent's Gazette, may be living the lonely bachelor life. With Ben's help, they sign Geronimo up for a dating service. But what happens when the service gives him the most unlikely match?!"
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award-winning journalist Ilia Calderón-- the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States-- about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A veteran of the Washington Post and Miami Herald among others, Shroder has made a career of investigative journalism and human-interest stories, from interviewing South American children who claim to have memories of past lives for his book Old Souls, to a former Marine suffering from debilitating PTSD and his doctor who is pioneering a successful psychedelic drug treatment in Acid Test. Shroder's most fascinating reporting, however, comes from...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxv, 293 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A candid memoir by the late ESPN and ABC Sports broadcaster reveals his longtime battle with depression and his investigations into modern medical and homeopathic treatments, exploring how the disease affected his career and relationships.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Weaving a child's experiences with memories from reporting in danger zones like Cambodia and Iraq, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster. While she never breaks the tone of a curious investigator, she easily moves between her nine-year-old self and the experienced journalist. Imagination is at play in her childhood adventures and in her narrative control, always with great purpose. She openly confronts the impact of her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm-- and a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America"--
268) Washington's golden age: Hope Ridings Miller, the society beat, and the rise of women journalists
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 233 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Real news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to Hope Ridings Miller?s column in the Washington Post to see what was really going on in town. Cocktail parties, embassy receptions and formal dinners were her beat as society editor. 'I went as a guest,' said Miller, 'and hoped that they?d forget I was a reporter.' In Washington?s Golden Age, Joseph Dalton chronicles...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A raucous and vividly dishy memoir by the only woman writer on the masthead of Rolling Stone Magazine in the early Seventies. In 1971, Robin Green had an interview with Jann Wenner at the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. She had just moved to Berkeley, California, a city that promised 'Good Vibes All-a Time.' Those days, job applications asked just one question, 'What are your sun, moon and rising signs?' Green thought she was interviewing for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a social history of women journalists of the Gilded Age who went undercover to champion women's rights and expose corruption and abuse in America.
In the waning years of the nineteenth century women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which many Americans lived and worked. They stole into sewing factories to report on child labor, fainted in the streets to test...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
ix, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century-the true effects of the atom bomb-potentially saving millions of lives"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-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 US, covering 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision's longtime anchorman and widely considered the "voice of the voiceless" within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current...
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