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How does an ordinary-colored-girl get her own talk show in 1973 covering Southern New England? Not by being a good girl. She wasn't always bad, she'd tell you. It wasn't until she met "him". The him was one of TV's most powerful behind-the-scenes star makers. If I Make You a Star: A Trailblazing Black TV Journalist’s Me Too Story by Theresa Brown is about love and hate, power and compromise, colorism, betrayal, mental illness, and moral injury. It's an insider's story of grooming, success, and the consequences of complicity taking place in the late '60s.

"Una voz, la de Carmen Laforet, que con estos artículos será atendida de manera distinta. Estoy segura.", Inés Martín Rodrigo. En los artículos publicados entre los años 1948 y 1953 en la sección "Puntos de vista de una mujer" de la revista Destino que se recogen en este audiolibro, la escritura de Carmen Laforet se revela como un espejo que refleja la cotidianeidad de su tiempo: una época en la que las mujeres deseaban ser vistas y escuchadas más allá de las paredes de su habitación propia.

C'est l'histoire d'un homme qui vient d'avoir 82 ans. Déjà ? Jadis, il était toujours pressé, il régnait sur le monde de la culture et il se sentait invincible. Aujourd'hui, à la retraite, c'est plus calme : les défaillances du corps, les anxiétés de l'âme, la peur de perdre ses vieux amis qui forment une bande de joyeux octogénaires. Une autre vie commence. Avec le plaisir de pouvoir enfin prendre son temps et le perdre.

It seems nothing about the life of Roger Badesch has been planned. Nearly killed as a child when he was run over by a VW minibus, losing his older brother to a drunk driver, surviving an invasive cancer, getting stuck in a blizzard, and winning an Emmy award are just some of the life-changing stories you’ll share with him.

Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Herbers' reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a Black man convicted for the rape of a White housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a Black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a White woman.

Was macht man, wenn man auf einer Recherchereise im iranischen Gebirge nicht tanken kann, weil das Benzin aufgrund westlicher Sanktionen knapp ist? Oder wenn man eine vermeintlich zu kurze Hose trägt und die Strafe darauf lautet, in ein Fass mit schwarzer Farbe steigen zu müssen? Und warum reiste Amiri trotz aller Warnungen immer wieder in den Iran?

Del Rincón a Los Medios es la autobiografía del reconocido periodista internacional del canal de television CNN en español Fernando Del Rincon. Es un presentador multi-nominado y ganador del premio Emmy y también dos veces ganador de "Mejor Presentador de Noticias" por la prestigiosa revista People en español.

Winston (a music journalist from Tennessee) is given an assignment to travel to Ohio in order to cover the live music scene and visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where the Johnny Cash tour bus has remained parked for several years. He sets his sights on proving once and for all that the new music scene is still alive and well, but this, however, was no easy task. Initially he struggles to find a concert that's worth attending, until he stumbles on a live rock show from one of the early pioneers.

A story of a young woman left behind and a young reporter coming of age in a world of war; a gripping memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s. As brutal wars in Cambodia and Vietnam come to swift and cataclysmic ends, a young reporter plans a last minute rescue of a woman he loved. The rescue fails.

Für die meisten von uns ist es die größte Angst, einen geliebten Menschen zu verlieren oder eine schwere Krankheit zu bekommen. Doch wie kann ein Leben gelingen, wenn einem beide Katastrophen widerfahren? Als Anja Caspary die Diagnose Brustkrebs erhält, ist der Schock zunächst riesig. Statt sich mit der Frage nach dem Warum aufzuhalten oder die Krankheit zu verschweigen, nimmt sie ihr Schicksal selbstbewusst in die Hand.

An insider and behind the scenes look at investigative reporting from an award-winning investigative reporter. First-hand intimate stories, not only about the workings of local television news, but also events and personalities that shaped the last 50 years including: Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan; my experiences in Saudi Arabia with General Norman Schwarzkopf before the First Gulf War; Klan cross burnings and a Klan riot; an insider view of Florida executions including “Old Sparky”, the electric chair.

"Jetzt ist meine beste Zeit!", sagt Birgit Schrowange und blickt in ihrem neuen Buch "Birgit ungeschminkt" dankbar auf 40 erlebnisreiche Jahre vor der Kamera zurück - doch mehr noch schaut sie nach vorn! Amüsant und selbstironisch lässt die beliebte Moderatorin tief in ihr Leben blicken. Noch nie hat sie die komplette und geradezu märchenhafte Liebesgeschichte mit ihrem Verlobten Frank erzählt, den sie nach 10 Single-Jahren kennenlernte.

Margaret Lally Murray came to Canada in a homemade dress with pictures of cowboys she might marry. But instead of a quiet prairie existence, she found a life filled with politics, printer's ink, and possibilities always vergin' on the verge. She was a 100 percent emancipated woman and British Columbia's first and most memorable female publisher.

Tom Wolfe comandó una generación de escritores dispuestos a dinamitar las convenciones de la sociedad tradicional. Estaban allí para contarnos cosas de nosotros mismos de un modo hasta entonces inaudito. Se convirtieron en nuestros sabios orientadores, nuestros heraldos, incluso en nuestra conciencia moral: eran los nuevos periodistas.

Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism is the memoir of an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the restricted culture of the American South in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite Jim Crow laws that affected where she lived, how she was educated, and what civil rights she would be denied, Lloyd would become one of the first African American women to be the top editor of a mainstream daily newspaper. Her memoir is a window on the intersection of race, gender, culture, and the media’s role in our uniquely American experiment in democracy.

A music journalist (Tucker) from Nashville, Tennessee, is given an assignment by Volunteers Variety magazine to travel to Cleveland, Ohio, and cover the live music scene, along with the world famous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After attending an Alice Cooper concert in the Flats, he becomes entangled with a very strange group of people, diving into the gritty side of the big city to get their thrills.

When China opened its doors in the 1980s, it shocked the world by allowing private enterprise and free markets. As a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek, Dori Jones Yang was among the first American journalists to cover China under Deng Xiaoping, who dared to defy Maoist doctrine as he rushed to catch up with richer nations. Fluent in Mandarin, she got to know ordinary Chinese people - who were embracing opportunities that had once been unimaginable in China.

Years ago, Steve Hannah’s chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the East Coast, where he was born and raised. Charmingly beautiful and full of welcoming people, America’s dairyland would soon become his home. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah’s burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind”.

Agatha Christie, born in upper-middle-class British society during the late Victorian era, turned into one of the most prolific and popular mystery writers of all time. Her novels have been translated into 44 languages and have sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her mysteries continue to sell as new generations of readers discover the delights of her main characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In addition, Christie’s plays have been a tremendous success, with The Mousetrap running in London for the past 70 years.

The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 22-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era.