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Lisa Flanagan narrates journalist Margaret Sullivans memoir/manifesto authoritativelyand gives this important audiobook the seriousness it merits AudioFile Magazine

Prologue read by the author

Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media In this bracing memoir Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded

Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom In 2012 Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times the first woman to hold that important role She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the papers staff parsing potential lapses in judgment unethical practices and thorny journalistic issues Sullivan recounts how she navigated the papers controversies from Hillary Clintons emails to Elon Musks accusations of unfairness to the need for greater diversity in the newsroom In 2016 having served the longest tenure of any public editor Sullivan left for the Washington Post where she had a frontrow seat to the rise of Donald Trump in American media and politics

With her celebrated mixture of charm sharpeyed observation and nuanced criticism Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nations most influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the news and what it will take to regain it

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press