Description for Into the Fray
From 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America's overseas conflicts. In Into the Fray, Tom Mascaro vividly recounts the characters and experiences that helped create a unique, colourful documentary film crew based at the Washington bureau of NBC News. Num Pages: 432 pages, 48 b&w photographs & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW3; HBTW; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 768.
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America’s overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while ... Read more
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America’s overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597975575
SKU
V9781597975575
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tom Mascaro
Tom Mascaro is the founder of the documentary division of the Broadcast Education Association. He teaches documentary studies and television production, history and criticism, and graduate media seminars at Bowling Green State University. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mascaro’s writings have appeared in Journalism History, American Journalism, the Journal ... Read more
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