Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of September 11

By Cathy Trost, Newseum, Alicia Shepard

Book Overview

From The Newseum, America's first interactive museum of news, comes the definitive book detailing behind-the-scenes stories of how journalists covered the deadly assaults of September 11, 2001. Three kinds of people instinctively run toward danger--firefighters, police officers, and journalists. Collected here are dramatic first-person stories of more than 100 reporters and photographers who raced to the scenes of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in rural Pennsylvania.

With a moving foreword by NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw, Running Toward Danger is arranged along a chronological timeline of the day and is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, many of them rarely seen. The book documents how journalists overcame daunting logistical and emotional challenges to report to a shaken world the implications of the new century's most terrifying moment. It includes intimate details about the marathon high-wire work of the network anchors and the harrowing stories of ordinary journalists who put themselves in harm's way to report the story. The book provides an enduring record of a turning point in world history, a book that future generations will rely on for insights about how news was conveyed to a shattered world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742523160
• ISBN13: 9780742523166
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Book!

The photographs and the reporters' accounts of their September 11th experiences are a piercing and necessary reminder to all Americans of why the war on terrorism must be won.

As Close as You'll Ever Get

This compelling account of the events of Sept. 11 is unlike any other. More than 100 journalists who were there take you straight to the scene with photographs and descriptions of what they saw and what they did and how they felt. The excerpts are short, the photos dramatic. One journalist died and many others were too close for comfort. You can feel the tension. And the anguish. Kudos to Shepard and Trost.

Running Toward Danger

I took this book to breakfast one morning and could not put it down.This book provided a unique perspective of the journalist on that day, on one hand a regular American and on the other a professional doing their job on what was the most news worthy day in history. We take for granted the news media and the service they provide- I thought the book honored this profession.

Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9

Fantastic book. Great insight about the journalistic coverage of this national tragedy. The book was well put together, well edited, and pictures were horribly specatucular (given the nature of the subject). Great job to the authors! Would highly recommend!