Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lisa Napoli has had a long career in journalism, including staff reporting jobs at public radio's Marketplace, the pioneering New York Times CyberTimes, and as columnist/correspondent at MSNBC. She is the author, most recently, of Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News. She has also written a biography of NPR benefactor Joan Kroc, Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, and a memoir, Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. She lives in Los Angeles.
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The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer—thank... SEE MORE