The Story: A Reporter's Journey (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series) - Hardcover

Miller, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410479595 ISBN 13: 9781410479594

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2015

Synopsis

Star reporter for the New York Times, the world's most powerful newspaper; foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir, she turns her reporting skills on herself with the intensity of her professional vocation.

Judy Miller grew up near the Nevada atomic proving ground. She got a job at the New York Times after a suit by women employees about discrimination at the paper and went on to cover national politics, head the paper's bureau in Cairo, and serve as deputy editor in Paris and then deputy at the powerful Washington bureau. She reported on terrorism and the rise of fanatical Islam in the Middle East and on secret biological weapons plants and programs in Iraq, Iran, and Russia. She covered an administration traumatized by 9/11 and an anthrax attack three weeks later. Miller shared a Pulitzer for her reporting.

She turns her journalistic skills on herself and her controversial reporting which marshaled evidence that led America to invade Iraq. She writes about the mistakes she and others made on the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. She addresses the motives of some of her sources, including the notorious Iraqi Chalabi and the CIA. She describes going to jail to protect her sources in the Scooter Libby investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and how the Times subsequently abandoned her after twenty-eight years.

The Story describes the real life of a foreign and investigative reporter. It is an adventure story, told with bluntness and wryness.

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Review:

"A memoir of high-stakes journalism . . . especially revealing about why she decided to go to prison for contempt of court rather than reveal a confidential source related to the outing of Valerie Plame."--Kirkus Reviews

"Compelling . . . [a] sobering book, which demonstrates her devotion to getting the story right."--Real Clear Politics

"Miller's supreme dedication to the journalistic mission . . . must be admired. . . . Gripping and important journalism. . . . The Story is a rich story of the craft of journalism with a full-bodied plot."--Haaretz

About the Author:

Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly with the New York Times. She won an Emmy for her work on a Nova/New York Times documentary based on articles for her book Germs. Miller is the author of four books, two #1 bestsellers. She is the recipient of many awards, among them the Society of Professional Journalists' "First Amendment Award" for her protection of sources. An adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal, Miller is theater critic for Tablet magazine. Since 2008, she has been a commentator for Fox News.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1410479595
• ISBN 13: 9781410479594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 673