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Review August 2023 articles and preview September stories
Mine’s been a summer of milestones. I’ve reached my 30th year in journalism which you can read (or listen to me read) about in the newest of my anniversary series in which I recall three decades of news journalism.
From chronicling riots, earthquakes and a boy refugee from Communism—I’m the first reporter to have met America’s youngest defector at his Miami home days before the boy was forced by the U.S. military at gunpoint to live under dictatorship—to America’s worst aviation disaster and that black Tuesday in September 2001, I’ve written a range of history’s first drafts. Read about the news reporting here.
This year, I’ve become the first and only journalist to meet and interview the 74-year-old man who tackled an Islamic assassin, saving 75-year-old Salman Rushdie, who’d been marked by Iran’s dictator for death, about his heroism. Listen to my story about conceptualizing, arranging and conducting this interview in an Autonomia exclusive here. There’s more—including Autonomia’s first theater review and a review of a ghoulish new Denzel Washington movie and more podcasts—this month.
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August’s contents include:
Movie review: Cliffhanger (Sylvester Stallone Movies) (paid subscribers only)
Points in Pittsburgh: The Andy Warhol Museum (paid subscribers only)
Podcast episode: My News Journalism (Thirty Years in the Press)
This Week in History: Olivia Newton-John, Patricia Neal, The Band Wagon, Manson mass murder, the atomic bomb
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September articles in progress include:
Another picture in the Liza Minnelli Movies series
This Date in History: when Soviet Russia slaughtered everyone on a 747
Centennial reports on Time magazine and Warner Bros.
Chuck Lorre’s TV comedy series Mom
Review of a book about Casablanca
Black September: the Munich Olympics massacre
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