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Breaking News in Corte Madera! · Jul 30, 10:11 AM

BREAKING NEWS BOOK SIGNING!

Linda Deutsch, John Raess & Scott Lindlaw
Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else
Wednesday, August 08, 2007, 7:00 PM

Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera
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Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 927-0960

A team of former and current Associated Press journalists reveals the compelling stories behind some of history’s biggest stories in the first book about the news cooperative in more than 60 years.

Breaking News: How the Associated Press has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else ($35.00), published by Princeton Architectural Press and richly illustrated with images from the AP’s archives, recounts the challenges of reporting on armed conflicts, major trials, aviation milestones, presidential elections, the struggle for civil rights, the White House and disasters such as the 9/11 terror attacks.

The book also highlights the cooperative’s intrepid foreign correspondents—such as Wes Gallagher, shown on the cover as he dashed for a phone to report on the verdict in the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trial—and iconic images, including Joe Rosenthal’s photo of the flag raising atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, in 1945.

The AP previously released David Halberstam’s foreword in Breaking News to honor the journalist after his untimely death in a car crash in April. Halberstam, who covered the Vietnam War for The New York Times, recalled his first-hand experiences with AP’s Saigon bureau.

Others who compiled the book’s behind-the-scenes accounts include Richard Pyle, Fran Mears, Walter Mears, Nancy Benac, the late Howard Benedict, Darrell Christian, Tom Jory, Mike Feinsilber, Larry Heinzerling, Hal Buell, Jerry Schwartz, Terry Hunt, Cal Woodward and Sally Jacobsen. Their anecdotes are buttressed by records and documents newly uncovered by The AP Corporate Archives.

Linda Deutsch is one of the most influential journalists in America today. She is AP’s premiere courtroom reporter. Based in LA, for close to 40 years now, she has held a ringside seat at such explosive trials as those of Sirhan Sirhan, Manson, Angela Davis, Patty Hearst, the Menendez brothers, and O.J. Simpson.

John Raess is AP’s Bureau Chief in San Francisco.

Scott Lindlaw is a special projects reporter, based at The Associated Press bureau in San Francisco. He focuses on military, national security and homeland security issues, most recently producing a multi-part investigation on the probes into the friendly-fire death in Afghanistan of former pro football star Pat Tillman. Lindlaw has criss-crossed the United States since the early 1990s on a variety of assignments for the AP, including statehouse and political coverage in Rhode Island and California, as well as the O.J. Simpson trials, the Hollywood scene, presidential campaigns, inaugurations and the White House. He was based in Washington, D.C., as White House correspondent when he took a leave of absence from the AP in 2005 for a book project. He returned to AP in 2006 in San Francisco. Among his most high-profile beats has been covering President George W. Bush on mountain biking forays, filing first-hand accounts of grueling rides, including the 43rd president’s July 2004 crash. Lindlaw holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s in journalism from the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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