Newseum

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Running Toward Danger

Stories Behind the Breaking News of September 11

Beschreibung

The Newseum has assembled more than 100 first-person stories of how journalists and news organizations handled a day that changed history. The book examines the emotional, logistical, ethical and safety challenges journalists faced in order to get the story to a public hungry for details. 75 photos.

Autor

The Newseum is moving to Washington, D.C., where it is expected to reopen in 2006. During nearly five years of operation at its location in Arlington, Virginia, the Newseum hosted more than 2.2 million visitors. At its new home on Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W., the Newseum will more than double in size and will offer enhanced experiences with exhibits, artifacts and interactives to take visitors behind the scenes of news as never before. The Newseum is funded by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. Cathy Trost, an award-winning journalist and author, was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press and United Press International. She is the founding director of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families at the University of Maryland College of Journalism and is on the board of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. Alicia C. Shepard is senior writer for American Journalism Review and writes for Washingtonian magazine. She twice has won the National Press Club's media criticism award and has received the Barth Richards Media Criticism Award from Penn State University. She worked as a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and Scripps League newspapers. Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News anchor since 1983, presides over one of America's most watched evening newscasts. He has covered every presidential election since 1968 and has interviewed a host of presidents and heads of state. The winner of many awards, he wrote The Greatest Generation, a best-selling account of the generation that grew up during the Depression and fought in World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 187mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780742523166
• ISBN-10: 0742523160
• Artikelnr.: 22255455