NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #87 of #GMGReads. Every night through this (increasingly) weird (and sad) time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
We've seen a lot over the last two weeks how journalists end up witnessing and recording history as it unfolds, so tonight I want to feature five great histories of journalists making and witnessing history:
1) Nan Robertson's GIRLS IN THE BALCONY is the story of the fight by the women of the New York Times for equal rights and treatment within the paper: powells.com/book/the-girls…
2) Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff co-wrote an incredible, eye-opening book, THE RACE BEAT, about the reporters who covered the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s: strandbooks.com/product/978067…
3) Ben Bradlee's memoir A GOOD LIFE is a rollicking recounting of his decades in journalism, including the Pentagon Papers and Watergate: strandbooks.com/product/978068…
4) Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud's THE MURROW BOYS follows the ground breaking reporters who brought World War II home to Americans: strandbooks.com/product/978039…
5) Janet Malcolm's JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER is a thoughtful, philosophical examination of the ethics of reporting and writing history: powells.com/book/journalis…
PS: I only discovered this spring this biography of pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells, but it's now on my reading list too: strandbooks.com/product/978006…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books on journalism? Share! #avidreadersunite
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