{"product_id":"news-to-me-adventures-of-an-accidental-journalist-9781517922023","title":"News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of a journalist's coming of age in Duluth during the boom days of print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaurie Hertzel wasn't yet a teenager in Duluth, Minnesota, when she started her first newspaper, which she appropriately christened \u003ci\u003eNewspaper\u003c\/i\u003e. Complete with the most sensational headlines of the day-MARGO FLUEGEL HAS ANOTHER BIRTHDAY!-and with healthy competition from her little brothers and their rival publication, \u003ci\u003eMagapaper\u003c\/i\u003e (a magazine and a newspaper), this venture would become Hertzel's first step toward realizing what her heart was already set on: journalism as her future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNews to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the adventurous story of Hertzel's journey into the bustling world of print journalism in the mid-1970s, a time when copy was still banged out on typewriters by chain-smoking men in fedoras and everybody read the paper. A coming-of-age tale in more ways than one, Hertzel's eighteen-year career at the \u003ci\u003eDuluth News Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e began when journalism was a predominantly male profession. And while the newspaper trade was booming, Duluth had fallen on difficult times as factories closed and more and more people moved away. Hertzel describes her climb up the ranks of the paper against the backdrop of a Midwestern city during a time of extraordinary change. She was there during major events like the Congdon murders, the establishment of the BWCA, and the rise of Indian treaty rights, and eventually follows the biggest story of her life to Soviet Russia-and completely blows her deadline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the insight and humor of someone who makes a living telling stories, \u003ci\u003eNews to Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the chronicle of a small-city newspaper on the cusp of transformation, an affectionate portrait of Duluth and its people, and the account of a talented, persistent journalist who witnessed it all and was changing right along with it-whether she wanted to or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Oh, \u003ci\u003eNewspaper\u003c\/i\u003e doggedly outlasted the full-color \u003ci\u003eMagapaper\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurie Hertzel grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, and spent nearly twenty years at the \u003ci\u003eDuluth News Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e as a newsroom clerk, librarian, copy editor, beat reporter, feature writer, news editor, and columnist. Her journalistic work has won numerous national awards, and her short fiction was honored with the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. Currently books editor for the \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, Hertzel is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThey Took My Father: Finnish Americans in Stalin's Russia\u003c\/i\u003e, also available from University of Minnesota Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158643372306,"sku":"9781517922023","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e74d422-d202-4062-8c3a-4c4bcf82db8a.jpg?v=1774971395","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/news-to-me-adventures-of-an-accidental-journalist-9781517922023","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}