Books

‘… it would be a terrific investment of reportorial resources, not to mention a valuable public service, to dedicate an entire beat to secrecy.’

Judy Pasternak, a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, drew on expertise she developed covering the environment, science and other beats to write her first book. “Yellow Dirt: An…

Novels, at times, speak to truth in ways we, as journalists, can find hard to do.

To understand the larger media environment in which journalism is practiced—”the new ocean we’re swimming in,” as Jane Ellen Stevens calls it—she offers four must-read books:“The Search: How Google and…

It’s as much the “nitty-gritty of the journalistic enterprise, the ‘how-do-I-do this’ quality of reporting in Iraq” as “the life of the society he is covering” that Edward A. Gargan,…

‘Western reporters in Africa get away with an ignorance that would not be tolerated if they were assigned to other world regions ….’

‘What choices will news organizations make in the years ahead about coverage of the world’s poor and their problems?’ Two new books provide direction.

In ‘Bad News,’ a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.

A journalist longs for a more ‘dispassionate discussion’ of U.S. war policy.

‘For the first time it has been possible for large numbers of journalists to observe closely the behavior of U.S. troops and how it refracted among Iraqis.’