The account of a Harlem drug kingpin-the basis for the Ridley Scott film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas...

A collection of the very best in contemporary first-person journalism compiled by the award-winning former Washington Post reporter and author. Great journalists, at one time or another, have all been characters in their own stories: people with personalities that shaped what they saw and reported, and were touched and changed by the experiences about which they wrote; and innovators who borrowed the storytelling techniques of fiction. The Beholder's...

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall. He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb...

Los Angeles is as much concept as city, set in a desert that flows to the sea; that ends in the sand where an ocean begins whose horizon recedes in the sunset; a city where émigrés and the children of immigrants have come to make their dreams come true. It is a mix of the sublime and the obvious, of the new and the nouveau, of the selfless and the selfish. It is as delicate as the quality of the light, the air and the surf; and as ephemeral. It...

I have spent my 4-decade career as a visual journalist, doing all I can to advance the story in newspapers so that you will read, not just look. To do that has required that I design for legibility, accessibility, and to make the stories easy to read. In this book I outline my methods, and the ways in which you too can become a visual journalist for the mobile first era. Visual storytellers have never been more important. In the mobile era, stories...

Get the Summary of Adam Nagourney's The Times in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Times" by Adam Nagourney chronicles the evolution of The New York Times through various executive editors' tenures, focusing on their leadership styles, the challenges they faced, and the newspaper's transformation in response to internal and external pressures. A.M. Rosenthal's era is marked by his commitment to journalistic standards...

El arte de disentir presenta una compilación de las columnas periodísticas de Alberto Aguirre, entre los años 1984 y 2009. En ellas se evidencia su mirada valiente y crítica sobre la justicia, la política, la prensa, la cultura y los intelectuales en el país. Como parte fundamental de este libro aparecen los testimonios de personas que estuvieron cerca de su trabajo y de su vida: su nieta María Clara Calle Aguirre, Darío Ruiz Gómez, Héctor...

Los Angeles is as much concept as city, set in a desert that flows to the sea; that ends in the sand where an ocean begins whose horizon recedes in the sunset; a city where émigrés and the children of immigrants have come to make their dreams come true. It is a mix of the sublime and the obvious, of the new and the nouveau, of the selfless and the selfish. It is as delicate as the quality of the light, the air and the surf; and as ephemeral. It...

Las nuevas tecnologías han modificado las relaciones entre los reporteros y sus empresas. Otrora, el enviado de un periódico, agencia o cadena de televisión, disponía de cierto margen y podía dar libre curso a su iniciativa. Buscaba la información, la descubría, la verificaba, la seleccionaba y le daba forma según su talento y el tiempo disponible. En nuestros días, cada vez más a menudo, no es más que "un simple peón" que se desplaza...

Today, anyone with an iPhone can provide firsthand accounts from the world's front lines. Despite our increased access to events around the world, journalists are more vital than ever as they bring context and perspective and help to set the humanitarian agenda. However, threats to journalists are mounting with record numbers killed and imprisoned each year. From the drug wars of Mexico to Iraq and Tahrir Square, Joel Simon explores the new challenges...