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At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine shut down, she moved to the Bay Area, where she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over thirty years and garnered fifty million readers.

In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He was accompanied by a driver, Aimal, who had ambitions of his own: to get rich off the sudden infusion of foreign attention and cash. In this gripping adventure story, Stern writes of how he and Aimal navigated an environment full of guns and danger and opportunity, and how they forged a deep bond. Then Stern got a call that changed everything.

During her career in sports broadcasting, Guerrero covered Super Bowls, Worlds Series, NBA Finals, and interviewed sports superstars. From the outside it seemed glamourous, but often she was miserable, told to smile more, argue less, and show a lot of leg and cleavage. Colleagues would joke—sometimes on national TV—that she clinched big interviews because of sexual acts rather than talent. She made a mistake on air during the opening game on Monday Night Football that cost her her sportscasting career... and almost her life.

Brought face to face with the author of his obituary and his own inevitable mortality, Edward Stourton is prompted to reflect on the life he has led and the events that have shaped him. The world has changed, and so has Ed. In Confessions, he describes this remarkable journey with candour, humour and the insight that only forty years' experience of writing and reporting can provide.

Where They Were Then: Sportscasters brings you 15 unique, hilarious, and inspiring stories of how TV's top sportscasters went from nowhere to the national spotlight. Be shocked and amazed by what your favorite sportscasters had to endure early in their careers. Be inspired by the doubts, fears, and hurdles they overcame en route to the top. Above all, be entertained by anecdotes delivered in the unique styles of some of the nation's most talented broadcasters. Some were fired. Most considered other jobs or careers. But all put in the hard work and pushed forward.

Nacido en Madrid en 1944, en una familia de periodistas, Juan Luis Cebrían pronto empezó a pisar las principales redacciones de la prensa de la época, primero la de Pueblo, luego la de Informaciones, donde fue subdirector con apenas 20 años, y también la de Cuadernos para el diálogo, cuyo espíritu fue un ensayo de la convivencia que haría posible la transición. Tras un fugaz paso por la dirección de informativos de RTVE, fue el primer director de El País, que pronto se convirtió en el periódico de referencia de España.

Whit Fraser delivers a smart, touching and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders. Whit had a front-row seat at the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline inquiry, the constitutional conferences and the land-claims negotiations that successfully reshaped the North. His vivid portraits of groundbreakers bring home their truly historic achievements, but they also give us a privileged glimpse of who they are, and who Whit Fraser is.

In 1955, Katharine Clark, the first American woman wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, saw something none of her male colleagues did. What followed became one of the most unusual adventure stories of the Cold War. While on assignment in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Clark befriended a man who, by many definitions, was her enemy. But she saw something in Milovan Djilas, a high-ranking Communist leader who dared to question the ideology he helped establish, that made her want to work with him. It became the assignment of her life.

Den danske journalist og forfatter Poul Trier Pedersen begynder i 2002 og slutter i 1921, når han i erindringsbogen "Baglæns" fortæller om et langt og spændende liv. Bogen kommer også år for år ind på nogle af de vigtigste begivenheder - både her i Danmark og i resten af verden. Poul Trier Pedersen (1921-2012) var en dansk journalist og forfatter. Han arbejdede blandt andet for Udenrigsministeriets pressebureau og for Dagens Nyheder, og fra 1965-1970 var en redaktionschef på TV-avisen.

KÆRLIGHEDEN, KAMPEN OG KLODEN - den selvstændige fortsættelse til Gretelise Holms bestsellererindringer, Jesus, pengene og livet. I Kærligheden, kampen og kloden ser Gretelise Holm tilbage på et halvt århundredes virke som engageret journalist, forfatter og debattør. Et arbejde, som især har været præget af kampen for social retfærdighed og retssikkerhed. Gretelise Holm er som journalist kommet emnemæssigt vidt omkring - fra handikappede med ringere vilkår end dyrene i Zoologisk Have til økonomiske fidusmagere med gode royale forbindelser.

Seldom has the world seen a man with the grace, style, intellect, and success of journalist, author, publisher, Broadway and film producer, and husband to long-time Cosmopolitan head Helen Gurley Brown, David Brown. Throughout his remarkable life, he was a friend, acquaintance, and confidant of the world's most powerful, most famous, and most notorious.

La de De Rokha es una historia llena de piezas extraviadas que Álvaro Bisama reconstruye de forma admirable. Cómo fue armándose su clan y familia, la fulminante historia de amor con Winétt, la guerrilla literaria en la que disparó sin piedad, su soledad como escritor, sus viajes por el Chile rural, sus inolvidables celebraciones, su compleja adhesión al Partido Comunista, el relato de sí mismo que construyó en su obra, las muertes trágicas que enlutaron sus días, entre otras circunstancias, dibujan aquí no solo la vida del poeta, también un momento histórico.

James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia—what one reviewer called “the intellectual equivalent of the building of the CPR.” Through friendships, curiosity, the insights of a charismatic psychiatrist, his passion for books, and the intimate encounters with the authors he met, he championed a diverse and inclusive view of Canada, which was used to draw the great minds of an impossible nation together in a common national enterprise.

In More After the Break, Jen Maxfield revisits ten memorable stories from her career as a TV news reporter, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded and revealing what happened after the cameras went away. She introduces listeners to unforgettable people who will inspire you with their hopefulness, even when confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks. Returning to find these people years after she featured their stories on the news gives Maxfield an opportunity to ask the questions she had always pondered: What happened after the live truck pulled away?

Pensaban cubrir la misión de rescate durante una semana y estuvieron casi un mes en el mar. La periodista de TVE Yolanda Álvarez, junto al reportero gráfico Joaquín Relaño, vivieron en el verano de 2019 una odisea junto a decenas de personas ansiosas por alcanzar las costas de Europa. Este es el relato emocionante y crudo de aquella travesía a bordo del Open Arms, con 160 hombres, mujeres y niños en peligro de naufragio.

In this entertaining and intimate memoir, the woman known by fans as "The Notorious P. A. B." reveals why she walked away from her TV news career after three decades. Patti Ann Browne also shares funny and poignant stories of her life off camera—from how she met her husband four years after turning down a blind date with him, to her son's near-death shortly after his premature birth and how it changed her perspective on life. Patti Ann's uplifting story is one of following your heart, owning your mistakes, living with integrity, and leaving the rest to God.

From janitor to journalist, Stringer: A Sportswriter's Memoir is the true story of former sports reporter Robert Garrett, who stumbled into his dream job. While cleaning offices at the Tampa Tribune, inspiration strikes him, and he submits a writing sample in the hopes of covering high school football part-time. It works. Robert is hooked on the business from his first game, which was marred by a brawl. Thus begins a seven-year adventure where he writes over 1,200 stories for four publications on everything sports, from shuffleboard to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Vom Kindermädchen zu einer der einflussreichsten Frauen Deutschlands. Ausgezeichnet recherchiert beschreibt Inge Kloepfer das – zumindest zu Beginn – märchenhaft anmutende Leben der Friede Springer, die als Kindermädchen in das Haus von Axel Springer kam und wenig später seine Frau wurde. Wie Springer ein halbes Jahrhundert verbrachte und nach dem Tod ihres Mannes 1985 um sein Lebenswerk kämpfte, erfahren wir in diesem spannenden Hörbuch.

Las maravillosas memorias de Clarissa Ward, la reportera estrella de la CNN, que narró al mundo la caída de Kabul. Clarissa Ward es una reportera de guerra que ha ganado premios importantes por su trabajo cubriendo conflictos en Siria, Egipto, Afganistán, fue la periodista que cubrió la caída de Kabul. Tuvo una infancia privilegiada, pero prefirió ir a los frentes e informar de la cruda realidad de los conflictos, de una manera empática, cuenta las historias más difíciles.

John Muir was a prominent Scottish-American biologist, author, ecological philosophy, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early supporter for the conservation of wilderness in the US of America. He was also called "John of the Mountains" and "Dad of the National Parks."