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Bronson, 38, is a successful journalist and novelist best known for writing about Silicon Valley, but when he started What Should I Do with My Life?, he was asking himself that same question. The dotcom boom was over, he had a child on the way, and the TV show he was writing for had just been canceled to make way for Temptation Island. He was at a crossroads. So he began telling everybody he met that he was looking for tales about how people found their purpose in life. Relying entirely on a grass-roots, and-they-told-two-friends...
EARLY IN THIS SKILLFUL, colorful biography, John Stacks writes that his subject, James (Scotty) Reston of the New York Times, was "the best journalist of his time, and perhaps the best of any time." This is a stretch. The saving grace of journalism is that it has room for so many varied methods and practitioners. Ernie Pyle, Robert Capa and Edward R. Murrow all covered the same war but in different ways; it's senseless to try to rank them...
...chief in Africa, John Platter dropped out of journalism to buy a farm in the South African Cape, then began making his own wine and writing about it. "I was lucky. I just found I had a nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa...
...Raelian sect might just be putting on “an elaborate hoax” in claiming to have produced a cloned baby. However, this admission came too late. Guillen’s shameless boosterism of so frightening a story over the past few weeks has embarrassed both journalists and scientists. He presided over a circus featuring the worst of both professions—a self-aggrandizing scientist playing God and a journalist who was not content to report the news, and instead decided to make it. In other words, if these people have any professional ethics, it would...
Before each performance, a different group of local scholars and policymakers are interviewed by journalist Christopher Lydon, and Boston-area refugees share their stories...