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Before the advent of social media, which has been a powerful tool for amplifying the voices of women, the experience of sexual harassment and abuse was both insidious and isolating. Egregious workplace behavior toward women was tolerated with the unspoken acceptance that "men will be men" and complaints about sexual assault in and outside the office often ended up with the victims being blamed.

Almost everyone yearns to know their parents more thoroughly before they die, to solve some of those lifelong mysteries. Maybe, just maybe, those answers will help you live your own life. But life doesn’t stop to wait. In his fifties, New Yorker writer Tad Friend is grappling with being a husband and a father as he tries to grasp who he is as a son. Torn between two families, he careens between two stages in life. On some days he feels vigorous, on the brink of greatness when he plays tournament squash.

Robert Peston is the presenter of ITV's politics show, Peston, and has been ITV News' political editor since 2015, having previously worked as BBC's business editor for a decade. We spoke with Peston about his latest venture, a novel titled The Whistleblower, his first work of fiction. Holly Newson asked him about this foray into fiction and his everlasting interest in the world of politics, and heard which parts of the book are based on his own life.

Se un giornalista scopre una notizia, la scrive. Tutto il resto fotte niente. C'era un ragazzo che in Calabria decise di fare il giornalista. Lo scelse con lo stesso slancio di un missionario, di un suonatore d'organo, di uno studente di sanscrito. Seguendo una passione incapace di declinarla nell'interesse, di legarla a un salario, mappa la politica, taccia le 'ndrine, ausculta il cuore pieno di aritmie della sua terra.

Laura Freixas es bien conocida por su activismo intelectual en temas de feminismo y sus reivindicaciones de la literatura escrita por mujeres. En este audiolibro aborda la figura de la mujer en la literatura en diferentes aspectos, desde editora a escritora pasando por lectora. Asimismo, la autora analiza cuatro relatos de otras tantas autoras para ilustrar sus tesis sobre lo que ella denomina literatura femenil.

Día 5: Lunes, 23 de julio de 2001.5:52 a.m. "El sol brilla a través de los barrotes de mi ventana en lo que debe de ser un glorioso día de verano. Llevo doce horas encerrado en una celda de cinco pasos por tres. No me dejarán salir hasta el mediodía; un total de dieciocho horas y media de aislamiento en solitario. En la celda justo debajo de la mía hay un chaval de diecisiete años a quien han encerrado por hurto. Es su primera falta, nunca lo habían condenado antes. No le permiten hablar con nadie.

El 9 de agosto de 2001, veintidós días después de que Jeffrey, ahora conocido como Prisionero FF8282, fuese condenado a cuatro años de prisión por perjurio, fue transferido de una prisión de máxima seguridad de Londres al Centro Penitenciario Wayland de Su Majestad, una prisión de media seguridad en Norfolk. Durante los siguientes sesenta y siete días que Jeffrey Archer aguardó a que lo asignasen a una penitenciaría "abierta" de mínima seguridad.

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 listeners on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency Wild West.

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.

Marvin Kalb, the award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the world he reported on during his long career, now turns his eye on the young man who became that journalist. Chosen by legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to become one of what came to be known as the Murrow Boys, Kalb in this newest volume of his memoirs takes listeners back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news.

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.