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Tom Mascaro has written a lucid, thorough, and thoughtful account of television news and the men and women who brought important documentaries to a receptive audience. Based on substantial research in a wide range of primary and secondary sources, this insightful and impressive book is of significance to media scholars and historians and deserves to be read by a wide audience. Gary Hess, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of History, Bowling Green State University--Gary Hess

Into the Fray is an exceptional contribution to the literature focusing on documentary producers. The information it contains makes it indispensable for serious students of American media history.

Tom Mascaro has written a lucid, thorough, and thoughtful account of television news and the men and women who brought important documentaries to a receptive audience. Based on substantial research in a wide range of primary and secondary sources, this insightful and impressive book is of significance to media scholars and historians and deserves to be read by a wide audience. --Gary Hess, Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor of History, Bowling Green State University

Into the Fray is an exceptional contribution to the literature focusing on documentary producers. The information it contains makes it indispensable for serious students of American media history. Jannette L. Dates, dean emerita, School of Communications, Howard University, and coeditor of Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media

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Tom Mascaro is the founder of the documentary division of the Broadcast Education Association. He teaches documentary studies and television production, history and criticism, and graduate media seminars at Bowling Green State University. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mascaro’s writings have appeared in Journalism History, American Journalism, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and The Essential HBO Reader (University Press of Kentucky, 2008). He lives in Livonia, Michigan.

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