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Informationen zum Autor John Maxwell Hamilton is founding dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU, Baton Rouge. He is the author or coauthor of six other books, most recently Journalism's Roving Eye. Julia Kennedy Cochran worked as a journalist in New York for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Business Week magazine. She obtained an MBA at Columbia University and worked as a marketing manager at high-tech companies in New York and Seattle. Tom Curley is president and CEO of the Associated Press. Klappentext On May 7, 1945, Associated Press reporter Ed Kennedy became the most famous -- or infamous -- American correspondent of World War II. On that day in France, General Alfred Jodl signed the official documents as Germans surrendered to the Allies. Army officials allowed a select number of reporters, including Kennedy, to witness this historic moment -- but then instructed the journalists that the story was under military embargo. In a courageous but costly move, Kennedy defied the military embargo and broke the news of the Allied victory. His scoop generated instant controversy. Rival news organizations angrily protested, and the AP fired him several months after the war ended. In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP.In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship. Zusammenfassung In this absorbing and previously unpublished personal account, Ed Kennedy recounts his career as a newspaperman from his early days as a stringer in Paris to the aftermath of his dismissal from the AP. In his narrative, Kennedy emerges both as a reporter with an eye for a good story and an unwavering foe of censorship.
