Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney.

One of the reasons I cherish The New York Times is its institutional eye for the easy-to-overlook and profound.

There is never any reportage about whether there should be any more obligation in American society to limit profit margins in order to share more with workers.

Sometimes it's hard to say just when the heyday of a great institution was. I had the great privilege of working briefly for The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1960s.

The book industry has suffered a similar fate. And it shows. And as for television, those quasi-literate crawls are enough to give you the creeps, provided of course you notice.

Crystal Myrick was first introduced to both music and the art of storytelling at a young age. Her earliest memories consisted of listening to Motown oldies on a 45 and watching Showtime at the Apollo.

But journalism also enjoys special First Amendment privileges, because the Founding Fathers believed the republic would founder without an honest and protected Fourth Estate.

Let us now praise famous men, James Agee said famously. Journalism certainly does that. Probably too much, especially in a public relations age when you can become famous for being famous.

In the I' of the Storm is a very short work (84 pages) specifically designed to help busy executives, teachers, students, civil servants, researchers, etc.

Diana Palmer, is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers.

Driven by pressure to perform for profit-takers, the print and electronic press seem to be moving away from the very direction they should be going towards.

If you imagine any subject as a puzzle with a thousand pieces you can begin to visualize how the press covers the news.

Pack journalism came in for discussion during the Vietnam conflict and later during the Lebanese civil war.

What does this tell us? Well, first of all, did you know we're considered that corrupt? You probably didn't. And whose fault is that?

Nobody foresaw a postindustrial age in which industry would subside or go overseas and a service economy would emerge.