Newsroom Confidential Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1250281903 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 7.36 MB
Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded.
Sullivan began her career at theBuffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. InNewsroom Confidentialshe chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor ofThe New York Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues. Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper's controversies, from Hillary Clinton's emails to Elon Musk's accusations of...