Giles, Robert H.
Summary: When Truth Mattered is an account of a young editor and his staff painstakingly pursuing the truth of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate about the Vietnam War. The heart-pounding story captures the flash of National Guard rifles, the bloody aftermath of four students killed and nine wounded, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.771 GILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.771 GILHarris, Duchess
Summary: Every day throughout the world, people watch newscasts, read newspapers, and consume news online. But what goes into producing that news? How Journalists Work goes behind the scenes to give readers a glimpse at how reporters gather and synthesize information to produce the news reports that keep us informed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J071.3 HARAlexander, Brian
Summary: "An intimate, heart wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America's health care crises. By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ALEGoldbach, Eliese Colette
Summary: "A debut memoir of grit and tenacity, as one young woman returns to the conservative hometown she always longed to escape to earn a living in the steel mill that casts a shadow over Cleveland. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOLDBACH, ELIESE COLETTE GOLYoung, Rosamond McPherson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 YOUNG, ROSAMOND YOUKantar, Andrew.
Contents: The great November terror -- The sweetwater sea -- Death on Huron -- The Morrell's world -- Outward bound -- The witch of November -- Madness at sea -- Chaos! -- A nightmare without end -- Where is the Morrell? -- "Waiting to die" -- And the bodies keep coming -- Human wreckage -- Seeking answers -- Epilogue -- Morrell crew list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 KANSummary: Documents how former drug-trafficker, Anderson Sá and the Grupo Cultural AfroReggae are working to unite a Rio slum, or favela, against a violent drug industry and police oppression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FAVO'Keefe, James
Summary: "This ... work of nonfiction explores the philosophy of a new mass movement of truth-tellers; its ethics, impacts on privacy, guidelines about deception, the discovery process of litigation, and the tension between secrecy and transparency--compiled from over a decade of investigative reporting coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research that pertains to the trials and tribulations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Post Hill Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 O'KEHitchens, Christopher
Summary: This collection of essays, reviews, diary entries and letters from the late renowned writer includes his thoughts on Salman Rushdie, being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords, and taking his son to the Oscars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 828.914 HITBaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARLibert, Steve
Summary: "In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? No one knows, but historians are quite certain the ship found its final resting place on the bottom of the Great Lakes. Now after centuries of mystery and misinformation, Steve and Kathie Libert reveal that Le Griffon likely met her final fate among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.452 LIBMcGinty, Brian
Summary: The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 MCGGregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, KATHARINE GRELasley, Tabitha
Summary: "A stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desire conflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisis In her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland. She decided to make good on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LASLEY, TABITHA LASGup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPHarris, Duchess
Summary: "Media consumers rely on objectivity from their news sources, but that's not always a realistic expectation. Uncovering Bias in the News looks at the ways in which multiple media outlets can cover the same story in vastly different ways, the reasons for these differences, and how to recognize bias in a news report."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J071.3 HAREckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKNagourney, Adam
Summary: "A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet For over a century, The New York Times has been an iconic institution in American journalism, one whose history is intertwined with the events that it chronicles--a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 NAGBlume, Lesley M. M.
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century--the true effects of the atom bomb--potentially saving millions of lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 BLUAlexander, Brian
Summary: "In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 ALEKhouw, Petta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3771 KhouwHanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priv. Print. [J.J. Little & Co.] 1900
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977 HannaSummary: This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAGTodd, Kim
Summary: Presents a social history of women journalists of the Gilded Age who went undercover to champion women's rights and expose corruption and abuse in America. In the waning years of the nineteenth century women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which many Americans lived and worked. They stole into sewing factories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021