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Heat and Light: Advice to the Next Generation of Journalists
Mike Wallace and Beth Knobel
Here's what the press is saying about Heat and Light:
New York's Channel 11 gives a terrific shout-out to Heat and Light!
http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/6e46457d-3b13-4754-9745-8972c88f75b7/Community/James-Ford-Gets-Big-Mention-In-Mike-Wallace-s-New-Book
An excellent interview with Beth Knobel on WCAI, Cape Cod's NPR station:
http://www.wgbh.org/wcai/programDetail.cfm?programid=298
Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes” fame teams up with former CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief and professor of journalism at Fordham Beth Knobel to present a primer on the news for aspiring journalists everywhere. Filled with anecdotes from both of their careers to illustrate their points, Wallace and Knobel bring nearly a century of experience to the table in this informative and fun to read look at what is news, how best to report it, and why it’s still important. Covering such important topics as how to conduct interviews and why blogging is not news, Wallace and Knobel understand the immense changes going on in the news business today, having transitioned from print and radio to television, and now to the electronic/internet age. Heat and Light will be not only informative but entertaining as well. It’s sure to end up on the required reading list of every journalism course in the country.
Rights sold to Southern Weekly, Shanghai, China.
New York's Channel 11 gives a terrific shout-out to Heat and Light!
http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/6e46457d-3b13-4754-9745-8972c88f75b7/Community/James-Ford-Gets-Big-Mention-In-Mike-Wallace-s-New-Book
An excellent interview with Beth Knobel on WCAI, Cape Cod's NPR station:
http://www.wgbh.org/wcai/programDetail.cfm?programid=298
Mike Wallace of “60 Minutes” fame teams up with former CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief and professor of journalism at Fordham Beth Knobel to present a primer on the news for aspiring journalists everywhere. Filled with anecdotes from both of their careers to illustrate their points, Wallace and Knobel bring nearly a century of experience to the table in this informative and fun to read look at what is news, how best to report it, and why it’s still important. Covering such important topics as how to conduct interviews and why blogging is not news, Wallace and Knobel understand the immense changes going on in the news business today, having transitioned from print and radio to television, and now to the electronic/internet age. Heat and Light will be not only informative but entertaining as well. It’s sure to end up on the required reading list of every journalism course in the country.
Rights sold to Southern Weekly, Shanghai, China.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
The late Mike Wallace won twenty-one Emmy Awards as well as countless others throughout his nearly seventy years as a reporter. He lived with his wife in Manhattan.
Beth Knobel received her doctorate in philosophy and her masters in public policy from Harvard. She lived, produced, and reported from Moscow for fourteen years, winning an Emmy as a producer in 2002 for the story about the hostages taken in a Moscow theater. She worked for the Los Angeles Times and for CBS. She now teaches journalism at Fordham University. She lives with her husband and son in Whitestone, New York.
