[PDF] Thrills Of A Reporter eBook

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565123809

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With frankness, Stewart tells the story of his own remarkable recovery as well as the extraordinary risks he and other journalists take to report the news from remote war-ravaged countries.".

Author : Paul Harris
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781904999362

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This is an extraordinary autobiography which moves rapidly from the battlefields of Bosnia to the war-shredded jungles of Sri Lanka by way of a host of unlikely destinations: the north west frontier province of Pakistan; the ganglands of Albania; the sands of the Sahara Desert; the streets of Algiers; and the volcano wracked island of Montserrat. The author's work as a military and defence writer, frequently working under cover for some rather unlikely clients, has given him an inside track on some of the more remarkable events of the last twenty years like the downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the ending of the war in Bosnia and the fate of Osama bin Laden. He has an instinct for survival. His 'plane was destroyed by a fighter aircraft on the runway in Ljubljana as the wars in Yugoslavia broke out in 1991. He was close enough to witness the bomb explosion which completely destroyed the centre of the Sri Lankan capital in 1996, from where he was expelled, in 2002, after upsetting the rebel Tamil Tigers. He almost died in Kosovo after some unsought close contact with dead bodies. He worked in China for The Shanghai Daily newspaper and in Colombo for The Daily Telegraph, but it was his work, for almost a decade, for Jane's Intelligence Review, and the murky world of intelligence gathering, which would ultimately force his early retirement after international terrorists issued a directive for his assassination. Only after that threat was removed, very recently, was he able to return to the UK and publication of this book was made possible. Former British UN commander in Bosnia, Colonel Bob Stewart, recalls his impressions of the author in the Foreword to this book. 'I realised that he was truly a 'renaissance man' whose interests, knowledge and international understanding went far beyond the Balkans. He has had an incredibly interesting life: this book shows that clearly . . . a very brave man'

Author : Marvin Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815738978

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A personal journey through some of the darkest moments of the cold war and the early days of television news 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 readers back to his first days as a journalist, and what also were the first days of broadcast news. Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast of legendary figures along the way, from Murrow himself to Eric Severeid, Howard K. Smith, Richard Hottelet, Charles Kuralt, and Daniel Schorr among many others. He finds himself assigned as Moscow correspondent of CBS News just as the U2 incident—the downing of a US spy plane over Russian territory—is unfolding. As readers of his first volume, The Year I Was Peter the Great, will recall, being the right person, in the right place, at the right time found Kalb face to face with Khrushchev. Assignment Russia sees Kalb once again an eyewitness to history—and a writer and analyst who has helped shape the first draft of that history.

Author : Walter Cronkite
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1997-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 034541103X

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"IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING . . . [A] SPLENDID MEMOIR." --The Wall Street Journal "Run, don't walk to the nearest bookstore and treat yourself to the most heartwarming, nostalgia-producing book you will have read in many a year." --Ann Landers "Entertaining . . . The story of a modest man who succeeded extravagantly by remaining mostly himself. . . . His memoir is a short course on the flow of events in the second half of this century--events the world knows more about because of Walter Cronkite's work." --The New York Times Book Review A MAIN SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF THE MONTH CLUB

Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Class Ebook Editions Ltd
Page : pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944654186

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“‘Forget everything you’ve ever heard about technique. Kiss me the way you think a bad girl would and we’ll both have a much better time.’” Sportswriter Judd Mackie has earned fame with his scathing columns. Women’s tennis pro Stevie Corbett is a favorite target of his sarcastic prose. In his view, she’s too focused on being a cute, crowd-pleaser to be taken seriously as an athlete on the court. What Stevie’s nemesis doesn’t know is that she’s suffering a medical condition that’s all too serious and potentially ruinous to her career. When Judd uncovers the sensational story, he recognizes it as one that comes along only once in a lifetime...but telling it would cost him the woman he now doesn’t want to live without.