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Race and Power at the New York Times
By Gerald M. Boyd, Afterword by Robin D. Stone
SOCIAL SCIENCE
432 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF
Cloth, $26.95 (US $26.95) (CA $29.95)
ISBN 9781556529528
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Feb 2010)
Lawrence Hill Books
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A rags-to-riches story of the climb from urban poverty to the New York Times, this insider’s view of struggle and change at the nation’s premier newspaper reconstructs the most controversial period in the paper’s history and records how journalists reported and edited the biggest events of the past two decades. A candid discussion on race, this memoir is the inspirational story of a man who covered presidents, documented extraordinary social and cultural challenges, led his team to an unprecedented number of Pulitzers, stumbled disastrously during an unjust scandal, and in the end discovered the true value of his life.
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"Gerald Boyd was an outstanding journalist of the old school . . . He was a passionate spokesman for diversity in journalism, and his life story is an inspiration for all." —George H. W. Bush, forty-first president of the United StatesAuthor Biography
Gerald M. Boyd was the first black managing editor at the New York Times. During his 20-year tenure with the Times, he served various roles, including White House correspondent. Prior to his work at the Times, he had a career at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A Neiman Fellow at Harvard, he was a board member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and was named the Journalist of the Year by the National Associated of Black Journalists. Robin D. Stone is the author of No Secrets, No Lies: How Black Families Can Heal from Sexual Abuse; a former deputy editor of Health magazine; a former executive editor of Essence magazine; and the founding editor-in-chief of www.essence.com. A former editor at the New York Times, she has written articles for the Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, and the Times. She lives in New York City.