Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times
- ISBN-10
- 193240726X
- ISBN-13
- 9781932407266
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- New Millennium Press
- Author
- Jayson Blair
Description
The journalist who was at the center of the journalism scandal involving fabrication and plagiarism at The New York Times offers his own take on his life and career, offering a critical look at the failures of the modern news media, his own struggle with psychosis, the emotional ups and downs of covering traumatic news events, and his future. 250,000 first printing.
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- 2006
- 381 pages
- Paperback
- Phoenix Books
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