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"""Celia Wexler has written a compelling narrative of these noted journalists that underscores and illuminates the challenging media environment. Their inspiring stories give hope to all of us who love journalism and realize its importance.""--Helen Fallon, Point Park University; ""Wexler persuasively demonstrates why the crisis in journalism requires our attention. Through elegantly interlacing reporters' first-person stories with public-policy implications, she provides a primer for those who care about sustaining our democracy.""--Danielle Brian, executive director, Project on Government Oversight; ""Celia Wexler writes with great insight and empathy, and timeliness, into why many journalists are leaving the profession. The result is a book that captures key aspects of a profession in the midst of great change.""--Wes Pippert, Missouri School of Journalism."

Celia Wexler has written a compelling narrative of these noted journalists that underscores and illuminates the challenging media environment. Their inspiring stories give hope to all of us who love journalism and realize its importance. --Helen Fallon, Point Park University; Wexler persuasively demonstrates why the crisis in journalism requires our attention. Through elegantly interlacing reporters' first-person stories with public-policy implications, she provides a primer for those who care about sustaining our democracy. --Danielle Brian, executive director, Project on Government Oversight; Celia Wexler writes with great insight and empathy, and timeliness, into why many journalists are leaving the profession. The result is a book that captures key aspects of a profession in the midst of great change. --Wes Pippert, Missouri School of Journalism.

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Celia Viggo Wexler, a former award-winning journalist, is a public interest lobbyist for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. She serves on the membership committee of the National Press Club, and has been a freelance contributor to The Washington Post, The Nation, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Columbia Journalism Review. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

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