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In 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian island of Bali. She was quickly enchanted by everything that most tourists find - its beauty, easy lifestyle, exotic culture, stunning beaches and striking landscapes. Three years later she moved there and became The Australian newspaper's first Bali-based correspondent, covering events throughout Indonesia. Peeling back the tourist veneer, Cassrels soon found herself caught up in a tapestry of beauty, mystery, power, corruption and violence.

Vir 45 jaar het Freek Robinson die grootste nuusgebeure in die ou én nuwe Suid-Afrika eerstehands beleef. As TV-joernalis en nuusanker was hy ’n gereelde besoeker in miljoene Suid-Afrikaners se huise. In sy memoires deel Freek dit wat hy agter die skerms beleef het. Dié boek verweef die lewe en loopbaan van een van ons land se mees gerespekteerde en geliefde joernaliste en gee ’n besonderse blik op die ingrypende nuusomwentelinge in ons onlangse geskiedenis.

Avec une plume aussi bien trempée que son caractère, Nathalie Petrowski a toujours été un esprit libre. Dans La critique n'a jamais tué personne, elle nous livre, sans faux-fuyants et sans règlements de compte, ses mémoires de journaliste. Ceux d'une femme qui, du p'tit Simard à Marie-Mai, de René Lévesque à Manon Massé, du sexisme ordinaire à #metoo et du Jerrold au iPad, jette un regard passionné et critique sur la culture, le journalisme et ses enjeux.

In this profoundly moving memoir, Camilla Gibb, the award-winning, best-selling author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed-for family shattered. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty.

Trotz Multipler Sklerose knapp 600 Kilometer zu Fuß auf dem Jakobsweg gehen? "Warum nicht", dachte sich Samira und brach auf. In ihrem Hörbuch nimmt sie ihre Leser auf ihre Reise mit. Diese führt nicht nur über die grünen Bergketten Nordspaniens, auf wellenumtoste Landzungen und durch verschlafene Dörfer, sondern vor allem auch zu sich selbst: Die Begegnungen mit anderen Menschen, der immer wieder kurz entmutigende Kampf mit den Symptomen der MS und das Überwinden dieser.

Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business.

Sexual Reality marks Susie Bright's return to politics and passion, jealousy and risk - in an intimate look at the human sexual condition. Chapters include: "The Story of O Birthday Party", "Strip Tea: A Most Unusual Tea Party", "Undressing Camille Paglia", "Egg Sex: Pregnancy and a Mother's Sex Life", "Blindsexual: What Every Bisexual Needs to Know", and "When 'No' Means 'I Didn't Know It Would Be Like This'".

What are you going to do for the rest of your life? For David Lawrence, Jr., a brilliant newspaper editor and publisher with a distinguished, three-decade-long journalism career who retired in 1999 at the age of 56, the answer in his words was to dedicate his life to a "[N]ewly energized purposefulness: that every child have a real chance to succeed."

On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award-winning 24-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam Ward. Their interviewee was also shot but survived. In the wake of his daughter's murder, Andy Parker became a national advocate for commonsense gun safety legislation. The night of the murder, with his emotions still raw, he went on Fox News and vowed to do "whatever it takes" to end gun violence in America.

Every photograph is a frozen moment, a story waiting to be told. A wedding photograph of a secret marriage. A dapper man who may be a lost relative. Three women covered in funeral shrouds. A brother. A father. A sonogram. These are six of the seventeen that comprise an album of photographs and their stories—nonfiction short stories found and told by a group of Columbia Journalism students. Perhaps in discovering these stories you may set off to find your own photographs, and with them, the stories they tell.

Com seu olhar jornalístico sempre apurado e dedicado, Cristiana Lôbo traçou o perfil dos presidentes brasileiros que permeiam a história do Brasil desde o início do processo de redemocratização. Não como um livro de história ou relatos, mas como uma narrativa do que viu e acompanhou no desenvolvimento da política brasileira através da personalidade de seus presidentes.

En un viaje que hice a los Estados Unidos cuando todavía trabajaba como corresponsal de noticias de la cadena Univisión en Colombia, una familia se me acercó, me entregó una estampita religiosa y la mamá me dijo las siguientes palabras: Que la Virgencita de Guadalupe lo guarde.

El libro de la premio Nobel de la paz, la periodista que puso en jaque a una dictadura. "Por su esfuerzo por salvaguardar la libertad de expresión como condición imprescindible para la democracia y la paz duradera." Con esas palabras reconocía la Academia sueca la labor y el esfuerzo de Maria Ressa. Este libro es el mejor resumen de su trayectoria y de los principios éticos que rigen su pensamiento y su labor como periodista.

Sufrió persecuciones políticas por sus ideas, huyó del nazismo y vivió la primavera intelectual de París de los años treinta. Estuvo en las trincheras de la guerra civil española, desembarcó en Normandía y dejó testimonios únicos sobre los combates de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Visitó China durante la invasión japonesa. Cubrió la primera guerra árabe-israelí y finalmente recorrió las tierras de Vietnam, en 1954, donde el último acto consciente de su existencia fue tomar una fotografía y correr el rollo para tener lista su cámara para la siguiente.

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Born on the West Coast, the son of Bronx-born parents, Steve Wasserman is a generalist and public intellectual but is perhaps less well known as a cultural essayist and social critic of the first rank. In thirty splendid essays, originally published in such diverse publications as The New Republic and The Nation, The American Conservative and The Progressive, The Village Voice and The Economist, Wasserman delivers a riveting account of the awakening of an empathetic sensibility and a lively mind.

An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon’s profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important period in American publishing and literature.

Сергей Ауслендер, российский и израильский журналист. Родился в 1972 году в Хабаровске. В 2009 у него диагностировали рак — саркому Юинга голеностопного сустава. Через полтора года после тяжелого курса лечения и сложной операции произошел рецидив, ногу пришлось ампутировать. После курса реабилитации вернулся к обычной жизни, продолжает работать на телевидении. Женат, воспитывает двоих детей. Эту книгу написал, чтобы рассказать свою историю борьбы с онкологией.

Sem tinta mostra que, dentro da transição de cabelo, cabem outras transições: do receio à aceitação; do preconceito inicial à mudança de visão; da descoberta dos fios brancos à descoberta de si mesma. Isso inclui um olhar aprofundado sobre os padrões de beleza a que as mulheres estão submetidas há séculos, muitas vezes sem se darem conta.

Autobiografie česko-německé novinářky a spisovatelky popisuje nesmírně vzrušující životní příběh vzdělané ženy. Její pokora nedovoluje o sobě hovořit v superlativech. Naopak. Její celoživotní snaha podávat pouze pravdu, ideálně ověřenou z několika na sebe nezávislých zdrojů, je cítit i v textu nejosobnějším, jejích vzpomínkách. Poznáváme život dívky dospívající na jihu Čech, která přes zastávku na studiích v Praze nakonec kvůli okupaci zakotvila na více než třicet let v Německu jako novinářka Rádia Svobodná Evropa.