Títulos en Periodistas, redactores y editores

When three colleagues die violently during a single wartime election day in Central America, two female journalists, best friends, are hurled into a torrent of change in their personal and professional lives and in their relationship with each other. The author, bedeviled by stress and feelings of abandonment, hangs on by her fingernails to reporting while her dear friend "just can't take another picture of a dead body" and throws herself into teaching photography to children who live in a garbage dump.

“Powers brings to vivid life Twain's America...No biography of Mark Twain could do him full justice. Powers' comes as close as you can imagine." —Los Angeles Times A magnificent and insightful biography of legendary writer Mark Twain and a great American story. Samuel Clemens, the man known...

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressive politicians in the country, and as secretary of the navy during the First World War, he became one of the most important men in the world. Before that, Daniels revolutionized the newspaper industry in the South, forever changing the relationship between politics and the news media. Lee Craig, an expert on economic history, delves into Daniels’ extensive archive to inform this nuanced and eminently readable biography, following Daniels’ rise to power in North Carolina and chronicling his influence on 20th-century politics.

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son's wounding but had to wait until the guns went silent before seeking out his son, who had died at the town's poorhouse. Sitting next to his dead boy, Sam Wilkeson then wrote one of the greatest battlefield dispatches in American history.

Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe - a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" - six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain.

George Pell was a Ballarat boy who studied at Oxford and rose through the Catholic Church ranks to become adviser to Pope Francis and Vatican treasurer. He has been expelled from the Pope's inner circle of trusted cardinals. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, supported and championed by the powerful, Pell's ascendancy was remarkable and seemingly unstoppable.

Natalia Aspesi e Simonetta Fiori raccontano la vita nascosta di Inge Feltrinelli, una delle figure centrali della cultura e dell'editoria italiane della seconda metà del Novecento. Una donna amante del mondo ma in cerca della sua solitudine.

Agatha Christie è, ancora oggi, la scrittrice di gialli più letta al mondo. Donna appassionata, piena di talento e carattere, la Christie ha vissuto una vita tutt'altro che monotona: un'educazione fuori dagli schemi, due matrimoni, molti viaggi e un successo conclamato grazie all'invenzione di due personaggi memorabili, il detective Hercule Poirot e l'ingegnosa Miss Marple. Il suo enorme talento come scrittrice la portò non solo a essere un'autrice di gialli eccezionale, ma anche un'ottima sceneggiatrice di teatro.

Martha Figueroa, la periodista de espectáculos por excelencia, seguidora de Luis Miguel (y fan #1), nos cuenta la vida del Sol detrás de las cámaras y los escenarios. En esta edición actualizada, repasa los treinta y cinco años de carrera del cantante con episodios de su vida nunca antes publicados.

"La palabra capirotada es muy sabrosa. En mi tierra, es un platillo que se adereza con pan mojado en un jarabe dulce al que se añade una variada mezcla de especias y frutos que le dan sabor: nueces, piñones, cacahuates, ralladura de coco, queso, y un largo etcétera que puede alargarse hasta...

Carl von Ossietzky (1889 - 1938) Journalist, Schriftsteller, Pazifist, Friedensnobelpreisträger von 1935, starb an den Folgen seiner in KZ-Haft erlittenen Misshandlungen. Ob gegen links, rechts oder die Mitte, er kämpfte unabhängig und unerbittlich mit seinen Artikeln für den Erhalt der Demokratie.

Ein Vermächtnis an seine Leserschaft ist Peter Scholl-Latours letztes Werk, seine Autobiografie. Hier erzählt er erstmals in extenso von seiner Kindheit im katholisch geprägten Ruhrgebiet, seiner Jugend als "Mischling ersten Grades" im NS-Deutschland und auf einem Schweizer Jesuitenkolleg, seiner Gestapo-Haft während der letzten Kriegsmonate, dann von seiner Zeit als französischer Fallschirmjäger in Indochina.

Avec une plume aussi bien trempée que son caractère, Nathalie Petrowski a toujours été un esprit libre. Dans La critique n'a jamais tué personne, elle nous livre, sans faux-fuyants et sans règlements de compte, ses mémoires de journaliste. Ceux d'une femme qui, du p'tit Simard à Marie-Mai, de René Lévesque à Manon Massé, du sexisme ordinaire à #metoo et du Jerrold au iPad, jette un regard passionné et critique sur la culture, le journalisme et ses enjeux.

À trente et un ans, Elizabeth Gilbert possède tout ce dont une femme ambitieuse peut rêver : un mari dévoué, une belle maison, une carrière prometteuse. Elle devrait nager dans le bonheur, pourtant elle est rongée par l'angoisse, le doute, l'insatisfaction... S'ensuivent un divorce, une dépression et une liaison désastreuse qui la laissent exsangue et encore plus désemparée. Elle décide de tout plaquer pour partir seule à travers le monde. À elle de se construire la vie qu'elle s'est choisie !

“On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist beautifully outlines . . . what it means to seek the truth. It gave me a new faith in the power of reporting.” —Oprah Winfrey The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this...

Since 1949, when Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Max Frankel began to write for The New York Times, readers have looked to his work as a lens through which they could witness America's role in a rapidly changing world. In this vivid and unforgettable memoir, Frankel chronicles the times of his...

The pitch went like this: Chris Butler, a retired cop, ran a private investigator firm in Concord, California. His business had a fascinating angle - his firm was staffed entirely by soccer moms. In fact, Butler employed PI Super Moms: attractive, organized, smart, and trained in investigative techniques, self-defense, and weaponry. This American Life host Ira Glass described them as "MILF: Charlie's Angels." When this story came across Pete Crooks's desk when he was working at Diablo magazine in 2010, he was instantly hooked. 

ONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of...

The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930 - and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? 

He was one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century political history. Yet today, Elias Demetracopoulos is strangely overlooked - even though his life reads like an epic adventure story....