Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11: Stories Behind the Breaking News of September 11 - Rilegato

Trost, Cathy; Shepard, Alicia C.; Newseum; Brokaw, Tom

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0742523160 ISBN 13: 9780742523166

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Chronologically documents news coverage of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks with first-person stories from over one hundred reporters and photographers.

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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 theWall 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 forWashingtonian 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 theSan 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.

Product Description:

From The Newseum, America's first interactive museum of news, comes the definitive book detailing behind-the-scenes stories of how journalists covered the deadly assaults of September 11, 2001. Three kinds of people instinctively run toward danger - firefighters, police officers, and journalists. Collected here are dramatic first-person stories of more than 100 reporters and photographers who raced to the scenes of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in rural Pennsylvania.

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• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0742523160
• ISBN 13: 9780742523166
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224