Stories and wisdom from a formerly depressed teen
When Ruby Walker was 15, she went from a numb, silent, miserable high school dropout to a joyous loudmouth in one year flat. And now, she's written about it! Advice I Ignored: Stories and Wisdom from a Formerly Depressed Teen answers the question everyone has been asking her since: What happened? The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present excerpts from Walker's book along with an exclusive Q&A.
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American foreign policy scrutinized in new novel
Robert Ritzenthaler was born on a U.S. Marine Corps base in Hawaii four months before his father was sent to Vietnam in 1965. Recently, he began to explore and write about his father's war experiences and their impact on his family. Since the late '80s, he's traveled across the world, documenting the effects of U.S. intervention and civil war on indigenous ethnic groups. Jungles and Deserts is his first novel, weaving historical events with riveting fiction. The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present exclusive excerpts.
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How some of society’s most controversial issues are examined in the media.
The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present exclusive excerpts from a new compilation of scholarly readings that examine present-day matters of race, gender and socio-economic class seen in the media. Told from varying perspectives, we're including pieces that explore everything from body image, sex trafficking and economic inequality to cultural stereotypes. These readings show that race, gender and class truly matter.
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Chicago television producer examines four decades of troubling media issues, trends
Roy Santoro believes the growing cultural divide in the United States, along with charges of "fake news," high profile mistakes and other issues have put the news media in a perilous position. Drawing on his 40 years in broadcasting, Santoro has written a book designed to remind the American public how important a free and independent media is to democracy. The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present three exclusive excerpts from Broken News: Journalism in Crisis.
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Convicted day care provider maintains her innocence in gripping memoir
In 2010, 49-year-old Lynn Moller, a day care provider in Madison, Wisconsin, was found guilty of three counts of child abuse involving two children in her care. Moller had run her day care without incident for 16 years when the allegations first surfaced; she has never wavered in her claims of innocence despite losing every appeal.
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Will, a fictional story about friendship, change
Quiet, reserved Peewee Kovak has been protecting Will Mitty’s wise-cracking ass since first grade. Things get tense when Will falls for a damaged, dark-haired beauty, and introduces her to Peewee. The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present the first chapter from author Tim Munkeby's new book, Will.
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Suburban married mom says she was wrongfully convicted of ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’
On October 16, 1995, a seven-month-old girl died while in the care of a 34-year-old Audrey Edmunds. A pathologist determined the cause of death to be "Shaken Baby Syndrome." Never wavering from her claims of innocence, Edmunds spent over a decade trying to clear her name after being convicted of first degree reckless homicide. The Reporters Inc. shares some exclusive excerpts from Edmunds' new book detailing her 11-year nightmare.
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Fictional novel explores race relations in Chicago following MLK's murder
The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present exclusive excerpts from author Bill Natale's new book, 1968. The fictional tale, based in part on a true story, explores race relations in Chicago at the time of Dr. Martin Luther King's murder. Though time has passed, Natale's descriptions of anger, pain and fear mirror some sentiments and situations boiling over on the streets in America today.
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From behind the camera lens, a TV vet tells all
Television is one of the most significant inventions of our lifetime. It's an integral part of most people's daily routines--from the morning news to soap operas, children's shows and live sporting events. But what goes on behind the camera? Daniel Morgan spent more than half a century as a stage manager in New York City, working on both a local and national level. In his memoir, Last Stage Manager Standing, Morgan tells all, detailing the drama and shenanigans that happened behind the camera.
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When police stay silent about stress, the results can be deadly
Sworn to serve and protect, police officers are taught that weakness, any weakness, could put their lives, and the lives of others, at risk on the job. And so they stay silent out of fear. Yet every year in the U.S., more police officers die by suicide than in the line of duty. In the new book Public Safety Suicide: The Human Dimension, co-author Mary Van Haute tells the story of Bolingbrook, Illinois police officer Chris Prochut, who suffered a frightening downward spiral that cost him his law enforcement career, and nearly his life. The Reporters Inc. shares exclusive experts.
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Born during the Holocaust in the same concentration camp, three survivors connect 70 years later
In 1945, Hana Berger-Moran, Mark Olsky and Eva Clarke were born in Mauthausen, a concentration camp in upper Austria named "The Bone Grinder." "No prisoner was expected to emerge from Mauthausen alive," writes author Wendy Holden. Seventy years after the camp's liberation, Hana, Mark and Eva have finally met. In her new book, Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance and Hope, Holden details the lives of these three remarkable Holocaust survivors and their mothers.
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Victim of sex trafficking reveals his 40-year secret
The Reporters Inc. is pleased to present an excerpt from the new book, Faraway: A Suburban Boy's Story as a Victim of Sex Trafficking, by R. Kevin Kline and Daniel D. Maurer. It's the shocking true story of what happened to Kline when he was just 14-years-old--a story he kept hidden for years.
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