John Maxwell Hamilton, a former foreign correspondent, is the author of Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting and other books. He is Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor in LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
George A. Krimsky worked for sixteen years for the Associated Press, reporting from the Soviet Union, Middle East, and United States, and directing the agency's World Services' news operations. In 1985 he co-founded the International Center for Journalists in Reston, Virginia. He is now an independent media consultant and lives in Washington, Connecticut.
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Hold the Press is a good idea well executed. . . . A good
gift for the young person contemplating a degree or a career in
journalism.-- "Chicago Tribune"
[Hold the Press] goes a long way toward revealing the
foibles and strengths of America's newspapers, large and small. . .
. An enjoyable book that dispels myths about how the press works
and why occasionally it doesn't.-- "Publishers Weekly"
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