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Nada es tan lacerante, para un periodista, como la indiferencia ante las injusticias cotidianas, diríase que eternas, cuya crónica se esfuerza en transmitir. Y ese es, precisamente, uno de los más graves pecados de este nuestro "primer mundo". Fede Merino ha viajado como periodista por las diversas cartografías de esa injusticia, de manera especial en América. Ha cosechado allí historias y vivencias que nos hablan con crudeza y sin disimulos...
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I'm That Guy is a collection for "Outtake" columns by Rick Outzen that he published in his weekly newspaper, The Independent News. The columns show his struggle to help his paper and Northwest Florida battle the "storms" of hurricanes, oil spills and corrupt politicians. Someone has to be that guy that challenges the status quo. Rick Outzen is that guy. Rick writes about covering Hurricane Ivan, the sensational murder case of Byrd and Melanie Billings,...
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A BLACK MAN, BORN AND RAISED IN THE CULTURE OF THE CARIBBEAN, ACCUSTOMED TO POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION, BUT UNACCUSTOMED TO AMERICAN SYSTEMIC RACISM, CONFRONTS BOTH IN THIS ENGAGING AUTOBIOGRAPHT BY C. G. GARDINER. HIS IS A STORY OF DETERMINATION, PERSEVERENCE, AND GOOD FOURTUNE. IT IS A WELL WRITTEN AND "READER FRIENDLY."
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By the beginning of 1982, Adam Carr had started to hear about a 'new' disease apparently affecting mostly gay men and his first ever article on AIDS appeared in GCN in February of that year. It carried the rather flippant title "Will We All Die of 'Gay Cancer'?" This reflected the skepticism with which Adam, like most gay activists and journalists, received the initial reports that there was an outbreak of cancer specific to gay men.
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85) Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes: by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder...
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This book is a recounting of a profession that is on the downhill side of history.
It's far too fashionable today for front offices to tell us that all we need is a better use of white space, color graphics, more features, and online bells and whistles to slow the decline. They seem impervious to the fact that there is nothing online that wasn't first gathered and compiled by a journalist.
But the individuals preaching these tactics are not newspaper...
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Get the Summary of Russell Baker's Growing Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Growing Up" is a memoir by Russell Baker that recounts his journey from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to his eventual success as a journalist. The narrative begins with Baker's elderly mother, who, after a fall, becomes mentally adrift in her past, often forgetting the present and even mistaking her son for a stranger....
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Juan Guillermo Ríos es, sin duda alguna, una de las caras más reconocidas del periodismo colombiano. No solamente vivió en carne propia vivencias que marcaron la historia del país y del mundo entero, tales como la toma del Palacio de Justicia, el gobierno de Turbay, el Tour de Francia (por solo nombrar algunos), sino que marcó un hito en la televisión colombiana con su estilo de presentación e impecable trabajo a la hora de comunicar las noticias...
89) First Loves
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Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds of love that are not disconnected from the contributions he has made to American culture throughout his career.
Solotaroff turns back to the earliest pages of his romance with Lynn, remembering...
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Get the Summary of Max Boot's The Corrosion of Conservatism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Corrosion of Conservatism" by Max Boot is a reflective journey through the author's personal and political evolution. Boot recounts his early life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, where his family faced repression and anti-Semitism. His conservative ideology was shaped by his experiences and the influence...
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Mujeres en conflictos, es un reconocimiento a seis prestigiosas reporteras de guerra peruanas que pusieron en riesgo sus vidas para que se conozca y entienda la crueldad y la barbarie humana que conllevan las guerras, y dejaron, a través de su trabajo de investigación periodística, un mensaje de razón que resalta la importancia de no olvidar.
A las mujeres siempre les han negado espacios en la vida pública, sin embargo, desafiando ese orden...
92) Mi Vida
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Este es un vívido relato de la vida del autor. Nada en este libro es ficticio. La historia nos revela su vida académica desde la primaria y hasta su ingreso a la universidad. Sus debilidades, desafíos, fortalezas y victorias se encuentran plasmados en esta narrativa.
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As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of Canadian newsman Lukin "Rufus" Johnson, this never-before-told biography explains how one man went from labouring across the Canadian prairies and through the farms of Ontario to becoming the first Canadian newsman to interview Hitler. After beginning his career as a journalist only to be pulled away to...
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On The Edge is a compilation of twenty of the news reports by one of GMA News and Public Affairs' award-winning broadcast journalists, Mr. Jiggy Manicad. The book features Mr. Manicad's coverage of some of the most relevant and controversial local and international events.
95) Vargas Llosa sube al escenario (y otros perfiles de escritores y artistas de los que he aprendido)
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Detrás de la cultura, de la emoción e intensidad vital que suscita, solo hay personas con su nombre de pila, su lugar de nacimiento y sus gustos para el tiempo libre. Son las extraordinarias obras que han creado y el reconocimiento que han obtenido lo que las aleja de los demás mortales.
Esas personas especiales son los verdaderos protagonistas de este libro que, además de funcionar como guía y prescriptor —no en vano Sergio Vila-Sanjuán es...
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For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of her newspaper's best-known reporters. Then one day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, including death threats, a unanimous denunciation by Parliament and a rebuke by her own newspaper. For the first time in her professional life, Wong fell into a severe clinical depression. Yet she resisted the diagnosis, refusing to believe she had a mental illness. As it turned out, so did her...
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The prominent journalist, historian, and author-an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century-tells the story of his final years. In the third book of a three-volume series, William Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich's defeat, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. It paints a bittersweet picture of his...
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The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed...
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A true story. Fast-paced. Immersive. The definitive parable of everything Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain.
There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes readers on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency...
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A major collection of Harlan Ellison's incomparable, troublemaking, uncompromising, confrontational essays and newspaper columns, The Harlan Ellison Hornbook mines deep into the author's colorful past. Failed love affairs, departed pets, a defense of comic books-in lesser hands, these subjects would be pabulum or treacle. When Harlan Ellison is behind the typewriter, the mundane becomes an all-out intellectual brawl. Emotionally moving and verbally...