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An Accidental Journalist
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Author : Cheryl Heckler
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2007
An Accidental Journalist written by Cheryl Heckler and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When an idealistic American named Edmund Stevens arrived in Moscow in 1934, his only goal was to do his part for the advancement of international Communism. His job writing propaganda led to a reporting career and an eventual Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his uncensored descriptions of Stalin's purges. This book tells how Stevens became an accidental journalist-and the dean of the Moscow press corps. The longest-serving American-born correspondent working from within the Soviet Union, Stevens was passionate about influencing the way his stateside readers thought about Russia's citizens, government, and social policy. Cheryl Heckler now traces a career that spanned half a century and four continents, focusing on Stevens's professional work and life from 1934 to 1945 to tell how he set the standards for reporting on Soviet affairs for the Christian Science Monitor. Stevens was a keen observer and thoughtful commentator, and his analytical mind was just what the Monitor was looking for in a foreign correspondent. He began his journalism career reporting on the Russo-Finnish War in 1939 and was the Monitor's first man in the field to cover fighting in World War II. He reported on the Italian invasion of Greece, participated in Churchill's Moscow meeting with Stalin as a staff translator, and distinguished himself as a correspondent with the British army in North Africa. Drawing on Stevens's memoirs-to which she had exclusive access-as well as his articles and correspondence and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Nina, Heckler traces his growth as a frontline correspondent and interpreter of Russian culture. She paints a picture of a man hardened by experience, who witnessed the brutal crushing of the Iron Guard in 1941 Bucharest and the Kharkov hangings yet who was a failure on his own home front and who left his wife during a difficult pregnancy in order to return to the war zone. Heckler places his memoirs and dispatches within the larger context of events to shed new light on both the public and the private Stevens, portraying a reporter adapting to new roles and circumstances with a skill that journalists today could well emulate. By exposing the many facets of Stevens's life and experience, Heckler gives readers a clear understanding of how this accidental journalist was destined to distinguish himself as a war reporter, analyst, and cultural interpreter. An Accidental Journalist is an important contribution to the history of war reporting and international journalism, introducing readers to a man whose inside knowledge of Stalinist Russia was beyond compare as it provides new insight into the Soviet era.
News To Me
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Author : Laurie Hertzel
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2010
News To Me written by Laurie Hertzel and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Journalists categories.
The Accidental Life
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Author : Terry McDonell
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2016-08-02
The Accidental Life written by Terry McDonell and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An Amazon Best Book of 2016 A celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Sports Illustrated. In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he’s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny—playing “acid golf” with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. Here, too, is an expert’s practical advice on how to recruit—and keep—high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good editor really works, and what it takes to write well. Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today’s digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: “Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he's known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it's changed and where it's going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.”
Swimming With Fidel
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Author : Michael Arkus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Swimming With Fidel written by Michael Arkus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with categories.
It is the 1960s, the height of the glory days of the Cuban revolution, and Fidel Castro has disappeared - scarcely a sighting or mention in the broadcast and written media that he dominates. Madcap rumours gather force, especially among diplomats, that he has lost power in a palace coup. Even his great nemesis Washington buys into the idea that something is amiss. The word is out: find Fidel.A young British journalist, meanwhile, in Cuba on his first solo posting, is pursuing his daily practice of shirking office work by decamping to the beach. Enjoying a morning of swimming and sunning, he bumps into none other than Fidel himself doing exactly the same. A major scoop - if only our man in Havana had a conventional journalist's temperament.For nearly four years the author, a reluctant journalist more interested in pursuing world travel, drink and tropical sex than the next great scoop, has a front-row seat during the golden age of the Cuban revolution. An undisciplined free spirit, can he survive the increasingly corporatised world of journalism while enjoying all that 1960s Havana has to offer?From pitfalls to pratfalls, follow the author as he navigates this island paradise that is part tropical Monty Python, part Kafka. Take a look inside the intricacies of Fidel's management style: Fidel as economic developer, Fidel as mountain-top beautician on Cuba's highest peak, Fidel as ice cream innovator. Read about 'interviews' with Josephine Baker and Allen Ginsberg, an accidental arrest with Fidel's older brother, a dysfunctional diplomatic corps complete with party games, toga parties, and liquor heists at the British ambassador's residence.
An Accidental Woman
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Author : Barbara Delinsky
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-08-12
An Accidental Woman written by Barbara Delinsky and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-12 with Fiction categories.
When a close friend is charged with a fifteen-year-old murder, wheelchair-bound Poppy Blake at first refuses to believe the charges but then wonders if her friend may have justifiably changed her identity in order to survive.
The Accidental Editor
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Author : Richard Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10
The Accidental Editor written by Richard Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A FEW OF THE MANY COMPLIMENTARY COMMENTS THE BOOK HAS RECEIVED 'I can't think of a single editor who has been as candid about their failings . . . Richard Harris, one-time editor of the News & Star in Carlisle has written a frank autobiography admitting that he wasn't up to the job of running a regional daily newspaper' - Roy Greenslade, media correspondent, The Guardian 'This is much more than a book about journalism. It's a great read and proof that, whether or not Richard Harris can edit, he can certainly write - Paul Linford, Editor, Hold The Front Page 'I had read the whole thing cover to cover within 24 hours and was so hooked I was even attempting to carry on reading while stationary at traffic lights' - Patrick Hill, Freelance journalist 'Bathos, pathos, such a lot of humour and not a little real emotional impact' - David Guide, retired journalist 'He says: "I never wanted to be a journalist but I've loved every minute of it." And I loved every page of his book,' - Anton Rippon, Sports Journalists Association
The Accidental Frontline Journalist
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Author : Nkosini Samuel Msibi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Accidental Frontline Journalist written by Nkosini Samuel Msibi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Documentary photography categories.
Don T Be Afraid Of The Bullets
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Author : Laura Kasinof
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-03-01
Don T Be Afraid Of The Bullets written by Laura Kasinof and has been published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later—after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, and even found herself the star of a local TV soap opera. When antigovernment protests broke out in Yemen in 2011, part of the revolts sweeping the Arab world at the time, she contacted the New York Times to see if she could cover the rapidly unfolding events for the newspaper. Laura never planned to be a war correspondent, but found herself in the middle of brutal government attacks on peaceful protesters. As foreign reporters were rounded up and shipped out of the country, Laura managed to elude the authorities but found herself increasingly isolated—and even more determined to report on what she saw. With a new foreword by the author about what has happened in Yemen since the book’s initial publication, Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets is a fascinating and important debut by a talented young journalist.
Bussing The Amazon
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Author : Michael Arkus
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-06
Bussing The Amazon written by Michael Arkus and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06 with categories.
It is the height of the maniacal rush by Brazil's military dictatorship to 'develop' the Amazon. Roads are being gouged through the impenetrable jungle; ranches are being slashed and burned out of nature's exuberant bounty; Indian tribes are falling like flies before the developers' murderous greed; rubber tappers are being slaughtered by hired assassins; and corrupt judges and venal police are giving the rampaging invaders carte blanche. It's time for the accidental journalist to visit the world's latest Wild West. Instead of going by boat, the traditional means of transport through the vast river-coursed jungle, he travels by bus and truck along the new, sometimes barely passable tracks euphemistically called 'highways.' Complicating matters, his girlfriend accompanies him for much of the way: she turns out to be a shopaholic, snapping up 'bargains' at every stop. The two cases he starts out lugging up Amazon and down Amazon double to four before she's through. Follow them on their journey to indigenous tribes in the depths of the vast rainforest, to crazed bureaucrats cut off from reality in their air-conditioned cocoons, to military officers who would arrest a red traffic light for being communist, to remote gold rush areas where gun and knife reign supreme. Meet the mayor who wants to repeal the law of gravity, the heroic churchmen fighting to save Indian tribes, the Indian chief who fights the military with a tape recorder - and much, much more.
The Accidental Foreign Correspondent
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Author : Kieran Cooke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-07-23
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Chasing Gadaffi round the Sahara Desert, chance meetings with the Pope and Castro, a kick in the head from a Ukrainian pole dancer, shot at in a Belfast cemetery, searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein's chickens - it's all here. Kieran Cooke, a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Financial Times and Independent, reflects on more than 40 years of reporting from around the world - the highs, the lows and the downright bizarre. From the Introduction: Forced to look for a job locally, I produced some yellowing old articles written as a student and bluffed my way into working as a reporter for the local government-controlled radio station. All of a sudden, I was a journalist. A haphazard career unfolded, much of it reflected in these tales. Many of the pieces in this book are light in tone. This is not to suggest a reporter's job is full of fun. Far from it. There have been dark times and a few close shaves. What I hope these pages illustrate is the often bizarre and random nature of events, and the humour that sometimes accompanies them - even in the most dire circumstances.