Category: Books
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The Basics and Dignity of Journalism: A Reflection on Rich Martin
In an age when journalism can often be agenda- and clickbait-driven, locally depleted, and, sadly, carelessly covered or just plain fake, it is informative and refreshing to come back to the first-edition book by Rich Martin titled Living Journalism: Principles & Practices for an Essential Profession, which I read early on in graduate school.
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Remembering Ed Logan in ‘Remembering Robeson*s’
Sal Nudo recalls interviewing his future father-in-law, Ed Logan, for the book “Remembering Robeson’s: Champaign’s Department Store.”
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Everyone Deserves a Chance at a Great Life
A heartfelt summary of the book “Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary” by Bill Strickland.
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Misleading but Worthwhile: Tucker Carlson’s ‘Long Slide’
In the first piece, “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” published by Esquire, Tucker Carlson boards an iffy plane to head to a war zone in West Africa with Al Sharpton and individuals in the Nation of Islam. The objective of this unofficial diplomatic group was no less than to halt a civil war in Liberia.
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‘The Newspaperman’: A Book Bentley Little Would be Proud of?
My inspiration for the abrupt, jaw-dropping conclusion of “The Newspaperman” was inspired by the late great horror author Richard Laymon, whose ending in the disturbing novel “The Cellar” left me, a mere freshman in high school when I read it, stunned for days.
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Afterword from ‘Learning Journalism’: The ‘Why’ of the Story
This is the final chapter of my 2022 book, “Learning Journalism Where Writers Rise: Four Enlightening Years in Graduate School at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.”