Why Write this Book?
“I wanted to write this book because I felt that Jimmy Breslin not only helped create New Journalism but used his gifts to cover more than five decades of American life. It is a career any serious student of journalism needs to study.”
Richard Esposito
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICHARD ESPOSITO
has served as Sr. Executive Producer, Investigations, NBC News and Senior Investigative Reporter at ABC News. He has received the George Polk Award for Television Reporting and is a five-time Emmy Award winner. Past positions include news executive positions at the New York Daily News and at New York Newsday, where he was City Editor and a member of a team awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
TED GERSTEIN
For close to two decades Ted Gerstein worked as a Broadcast Producer for ABC News. Bouncing from celebrity interviews to Presidential politics to investigative reporting. Following 9/11, Ted and Richard focused their reporting on New York City law enforcement and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Nightline aired profiles of New York City’s firemen, policeman, The Bomb Squad and recovery efforts at Ground Zero. In 2007, He and Rich, co-authored the book Bomb Squad, which chronicled a year in the life of the New York City Bomb Squad.
OTHER BOOKS BY THESE AUTHORS:
BOMB SQUAD: A Year Inside the Nation's Most Exclusive Police Unit.
