Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at the New York Times and How They Changed the American Media

Offers an inside account of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal that rocked The New York Times, the autocratic leadership style of the newspaper's executive editor, Howell Raines, the turmoil surrounding the scandal and its repercussions, and the implications of the episode in terms of the rapidly changing world of modern journalism. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.