A Journalist at War

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UPI – “Isle of Dogs”

“Isle of Dogs” By Brooke Kroeger isle-ofdogs-st__louis_post_dispatch_sun__jan_15__1978_ January 1978

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UPI: “The West Bank: This Land is Whose Land?”

Israeli settlers and the Palestinians: Whose Land?

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UPI: “The West Bank: A new breed of leadership”

Palestinian leadership in the occupied West Bank, Summer 1980.

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UPI: “The Golan Heights: The Camp David Fear in the Occupied Golan Heights”

Israelis in the Golan Heights, 1980.

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UPI – Recap of Israel’s Attack on Iraq’s Nuclear Reactor, June 7, 1981

How the Israelis managed to blow up Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981.

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UPI – “Spot Analysis: Palestinian Autonmy and the Late Moshe Dayan”

Spot analysis: Moshe Dayan and the Palestinians.

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UPI -“One week into the Invasion: Up the Coastal Road from Tel Aviv to Beirut”

Up the coastal road from Tel Aviv to Beirut, following the path of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

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Newsday: “Time Again for ‘So Much UN-ery’”

Curtain-raiser: The U.N. General Assembly of 1984.

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Newsday: “Generals Go on Defense: Ariel Sharon Vs. Time Inc.”

Ariel Sharon v. Time Inc.

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Newsday: “UN Divided Over Anti-Torture Pact”

The torture debate at the United Nations.

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Newsday: “UN Panel OKs Anti-Torture Pact”

The torture debate at the United Nations.

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Newsday: “UNESCO Pullout: Intent is Reform”

The United States, United Nations and UNESCO.

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Newsday: “Sharon Loses Libel Suit; Time Cleared of Malice”

Wrap-up: Ariel Sharon v. Time Inc.

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Newsday: “Tough Stance Stays, But Style Will Shift”

Spot analysis of the changing of the guard at the United Nations, as Vernon Walters replaced Jeane Kirkpatrick as U.S. ambassador.

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Newsday: “Politburo’s Youngest Member Advanced Swiftly to the Top”

Spot profile on the elevation of Mikhail Gorbachev to the top position in the Soviet Communist Party's central committee.

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Newsday: “Devisive End to ‘Decade of Women’”

Wrap-up: The 1985 U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi.

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Newsday: “Envoy Keeps Candor Showing”

Profile of U.N. diplomat Alan Keyes.

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Newsday: “U.S.: ‘Moral Victory’ at Women’s Session”

Report on the official opening of the 1985 U.N. Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi.

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Newsday: “Bella Steals the Show”

"If Women Ruled the World.”

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Newsday: “A New Form of Abolitionism”

"Women organize to fight 'sexual slavery' around the world.”

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Newsday: “Women Have Fundamentalist Woes”

Women and fundamentalism around the globe, 1985.

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Newsday: “Women’s Rights Minister”

"Yvette Roudy says France will need a women's rights monitor for 'generations.'"

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Newsday: “A Global Problem in One Village”

"While international groups debate family-planning policy, women in a Kenyan village consider their choices. Debate and Reality in Kenya”

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Newsday: “A Limited Consensus for Women”

Outcome: The 1985 U.N. Decade of Women conference in Nairobi.

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Newsday: “Poster Man: City Framing Me: NYCLU Asking If Rights Are Violated”

The someone putting up incendiary posters all over New York.

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New York Woman: “Women Who Do Nothing: Often there’s more to them than meets the eye”

How the women of leisure not only spend their days but think about them.

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New York Woman: “Heavy Duty”

At the docks with a longshorewoman.

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New York Times: “Feeling Poor on $600,000 a Year”

The young New York investment bankers with staggering $600,000-a-year incomes are not rich and may never be.

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New York Woman: “One Woman’s Odyssey: 47th Street”

In New York's diamond district.

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New York Times: “Raising a Million for ‘Les Mis’ ”

How a psychologist and a professor got a major insurance company to raise more than a million dollars for the Broadway production of "Les Mis."

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New York Times: “Letting the Services Come to You — At Home”

What personal services can a person order up at home?

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New York Woman: “Tough Assignment”

"When her doctor diagnosed breast cancer, this veteran reporter stumbled into the story of her life."

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Newsday: “Viewpoint: The New York Newsday Interview with Mariana Leighton: Learning How the Other Half Lives”

Q&A with Mariana Leighton.

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New York Times: “Funds on the Defensive”

Mutual funds in the aftermath of the crash of 1987.

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Newsday: “Viewpoint: The New York Newsday Interview with Stella Shindler. She Checks Out Heartbreak Hotels”

Q & A with Stella Shindler.

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New York Times: “New Frontiers: Divorced but Friends”

Divorced but still together--sort of.

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NEW YORK TIMES – “Among the Fresh A Dweeb Is at a Loss”

Teenage slang in 1989.

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Mirabella: “Power Divorce”

"High-earning, professional women are the big losers in the divorce courts."

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Mirabella: “AIDS and the Girl Next Door”

" What, besides impending death, did she have in common with convicts and heroin addicts?"

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Avenue: “Back to the Futurists: On a clear day, they can see tomorrow.”

What the futurists predicted was ahead at the start of the 1990s.

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McCall’s – “Small Successes Yield Big Returns”

With training and loans, women in Honduras are transforming their microenterprises into profitable businesses.

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Avenue: “Against All Odds: Three Fledgling Businesses Brave the Recession”

Businesses that successfully bucked the recession in the early 1990s.

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New York Times: “Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World”

Review of Mary S. Lovell's Cast No Shadow: The Life of the American Spy Who Changed the Course of World War II"

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Freedom Forum: “Nellie Bly’s Forgotten Sisters”

Speech to Fellows of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center (and at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) NELLIE BLY’S FORGOTTEN SISTERS: Recovering the Long-Lost History of Women in Journalism […]

Nellie Bly, Review

American Journalism: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

"Kroeger tells this story briskly and thoroughly. Her work is both a good read and an important historical rescue mission."

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Newsday: “More Work Less Talk”

"When it comes to Bly's private life, Kroeger's meticulous research pays off."

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New York Times: “Her Place Was in the News”

"An absorbing biography . . ."

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Washington Post: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

" . . . Kroeger makes an impressive case for this most famous stunt girl as a multidimensional feminist."

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Wall Street Journal: “The Mother of All Girl Reporters”

"Picture George Plimpton in a bustle, and you have an idea of the heroine of Brooke Kroeger's "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist."

Nellie Bly, Radio, Review

NPR Fresh Air, New York Observer – Review – “Nellie Bly’s Gonzo Journalism Cloaked in Victoriana”

"[as if] archeologists . . . remembered right before they sealed up their excavation tunnels that they'd forgotten . . . the sarcophagus of King Tut."

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New Yorker: “Nellie Bly”

"Kroeger has made a serious, interesting, scholarly book."

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Women’s Review of Books: “The Personificaton of Pluck”

"Brooke Kroeger knows how to tell a splendid and gripping story . . ."

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Outlook: “A Gathering of Angels: Angels in Jewish Life and Literature”

Review of Morris Margolies' A Gathering of Angels: Angels in Jewish Life and Literature

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Working Woman: “The Road Less Rewarded”

"As Professions Become Female-Dominated, Status and Pay Seem to Slip. Now Researchers Are Asking Why and Turning Up Some Surprising Conclusions.”

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New Woman: “My Bombshell Mom”

"Which is harder: living in the shadow of a beautiful mother or watching her beauty disappear?"

Nellie Bly, Review

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist – Journalism History, Vol. 20, Iss. 2, Summer 1994

"This is a much-needed book. The fact that there had never been a serious biography of arguably the most wellknown woman journalist in America spoke poorly of the state of women in journalism history. That weakness has been bolstered by Kroeger's interesting and readable chronicle of the woman who raised stunt journalism to an art form . . . "

Nellie Bly, Review

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, American Journalism, Vol. 12, No. 4, Fall 1995

"This is not a biography of the 'heroic' vein but rather one that paints its subject in all the glowing detail of real life —warts and all."

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Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side

Review of Bella Spewak's Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side

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Prologue/National Archives: “Nellie Bly: She Did It All”

What emerged from the National Archives in the research for a biography of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, aka Nellie Bly.

Nellie Bly, Review

Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, paperback, 1996, American Journalism, Vol. 13, 1996, pp. 242-244

"It is rare when so comprehensive a book comes along so scarcely researched a topic, but that is what Brooke Kroeger dleivers with Nellie Bly. She gives us a masterpiece so thoroughly researched and so vivid in detail that it leaves the rader believing no stone has been left unturned, no record unchecked, no evidence carelessly tossed aside. . . " "Kroeger calls her efforts 'paltry' compared with other biographers, but looking at the dearth of previous research, she is clearly being modest."

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PBS: The American Experience: “Around the World in 72 Days”

Read about: PBS, The American Experience, “Around the World in 72 Days,” which aired April 28, 1997.

Fannie, Review

Publishers Weekly: “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst Is Reviewed”

"Kroeger succinctly lays out the basics of Hurst's career . . . "

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Library Journal: “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst”

"Fannie will please readers . . . seeking insight into the cultural and social attitudes of the early part of this century. . . . "

Fannie, Reports

Booklist: “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst”

". . . a radiant portrait that also incisively illuminates the mores of her turbulent times."

Fannie, Review

Los Angeles Times: “Citizen Hurst”

"Part of Kroeger's project, as her subtitle "the talent for success" would suggest, is to demonstrate Hurst's own self-fashioning. . . . "

Fannie, Review

Newsday: “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst”

"Kroeger chronicles Hurst's myriad activities with engaging verve . . . "

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Salon: “Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst”

"A life of one of the great trash novelists argues that (clunky metaphors aside) it's time for a revival."

Fannie, Review

REVIEW: The Atlantic: “Fannie”

"Kroeger . . . gives a thorough explanation of the rivalries and piracies of magazine editors . . . "

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Los Angeles Times: “No Girls Allowed”

Review of Nancy Caldwell Sorel's 1999 The Women Who Wrote the War

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New York Times: “Fannie”

". . . Kroeger likens Hurst to a factory."

Fannie, Review

Women’s Review of Books: “Writing for Her Life”

"... And finally, we have a first major biography of Fannie Hurst."

Fannie, Review

The Commercial Appeal: “Where Have You Gone, Fannie Hurst?”

"Brooke Kroeger tries to bring Hurst alive in her exhaustive biography, but somehow she misses. . . ."

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Virginian-Pilot: “Excellent Biography Opens the Life of Fannie Hurst”

"Hurst was a woman of many parts, and her biographer, Brooke Kroeger, has captured them in her excellent biography."

Fannie, Review

The Jerusalem Report: “Learning to Love Her People”

"The feeling of stigma associated with being Jewish remained forever with Hurst, . . ."

Fannie, Review

Buffalo News: “Biography Captures Hurst’s Life, Gift for Storytelling”

"Hurst's life and gift for storytelling are excellent material for Brooke Kroeger, her equally gifted storyteller-biographer . . ."

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NY Times: “When Applause Isn’t Welcome”

Meet the classical music-goers as "applaudience."

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Los Angeles Times: “Hiding in Plain Sight”

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“Journalism with a Scholar’s Intent”

Journalism with a scholar's intent, if not a scholar's schedule.

Passing, Podcast, Radio

KPFA Radio: The Morning Show, Interview about Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are, March 15, 2004

The interview starts at the 1:10:49 at this link.

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“When a Dissertation Makes a Difference'”

Profile of Professor Devah Pager and her prisoner studies.

Fannie, Review

Bookforum: “Luxury and Degradation: Read It and Weep”

"Fannie Hurst lives on because several of her stories and novels were made into movies that people still watch . . ."

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Redefining Writing: New Models in Journalistic Practice

“Redefining Writing: New Models of Journalistic Practice” By Brooke Kroeger New York University[i] August 2006 Adapted from a panel presentation at the AEJMC convention in San Francisco, 2 August 2006 […]

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“The Audition” – Commencement Address, NYU College of Arts and Science, December 2006

“THE AUDITION“ Prof. Brooke Kroeger, New York University College of Arts and Science Commencement Address December 4, 2006 Graduates, my warm congratulations to you and your loved ones. By now, […]

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Medill/Northwestern University: “Reporting on People: The Biographical Imperative”

". . . it is, in my view, a terrible mistake in biography to add the overlay of ideology or trendy psychological analysis and interpretation, so dependent on fashion, school of psychological thought, historical moment, or societal more. It only serves to date the work."

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On Cherry-picking Other People’s Work

"Their reactions to the uncredited appropriation in each of these cases ranged from rage, especially when the offense was recent, to the more common shrug. None was willing to be quoted telling tales. None wanted to risk appearing petty . . . "

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American Journalism: “A Dozen Best: Top Biographies and Memoirs of Women in Print Journalism History” by Linda Lumsden

"Kroeger's voluminous research—some might say too voluminous—shows Bly's impact on journalism in the yellow-tinged era of William Randolph Hearst and her boss the innovative Joseph Pulitzer."

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Gelf Magazine, “Practicing the Art of Deception”

"Brooke Kroeger shares lessons gleaned from gathering hundreds of years worth of undercover reporting."

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CJR: “Brooke Kroeger on James O’Keefe and Undercover Reporting”: A CJR Podcast

"Is James O'Keefe a journalist? Does it matter?"

Fannie, Notice

“Playing to Type” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker, May 16, 2011

In this review of the play, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark,” The New Yorker critic Hilton Als acknowledged the revelation in my Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer […]

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Saveur: BBQ Nation: “Ribs and Ritual in Kansas City”

For a native of Kansas City, only one kind of barbecue will satisfy.

Notice, Quoted, Undercover Reporting

New York Times Magazine: Stinger: James O’Keefe’s Greatest Hits by Ze’ev Chafetz, July 31, 2011

Read Ze’ev Chafetz’s New York Times Magazine profile of James O’Keefe in full here. The article includes this quote: “Undercover journalism goes back to at least the 1820s in this […]

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NiemanReports: “Newsroom to Classroom: Books as a Thread of Connection”

With a forthcoming book about undercover reporting, her fourth, a j-school professor keeps her focus on familiar topics.

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“Anatomy of the Great Banana-Smoking Hoax of 1967”

Conflicting accounts still circulate as to how the Banana-Peel Smoking Hoax of 1967 got started and who reported it first.

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Journal of Magazine and New Media Research: “Why Surreptitiousness Works”

An argument for a restoration of honor and legitimacy to the discomfiting techniques of undercover reporting.

Honor, Nellie Bly

FRESH AIR BOOK OF THE YEAR: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

Nellie Bly was “the best reporter in America” wrote THE NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL on the occasion of her death in 1922. NELLIE BLY: DAREDEVIL, REPORTER, FEMINIST is the first fully documented biography of Bly and integrates a wealth of previously unknown information with a reporter’s zeal for the hard fact. It is the first attempt to give us this legendary figure in all her complexity: the most famous woman journalist of her day, an extraordinary American industrialist, and a compelling humanitarian. Hers is not only an inspiring personal tale, but the story of an exemplar of an age when American women were vigorously asserting their right – indeed, their need – to shape history itself.

Fannie, Post

Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst

In the first half of the twentieth century, Fannie Hurst was known as much for the startling particulars of her extraordinary life as for writing stories that penetrated the human heart. Hers is the story of a Jewish girl from the Middle West turned dynamic celebrity author, the kid down the street who spoke her dreams out loud and then managed to fulfill every one of them.

Honor, Passing

Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are

Despite the many social changes of the last half-century, many Americans still "pass": black for white, gay for straight, and now in many new ways as well. We tend to think of passing in negative terms--as deceitful, cowardly, a betrayal of one's self. But this compassionate book reveals that many passers today are people of good heart and purpose whose decision to pass is an attempt to bypass injustice, and to be more truly themselves.

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Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception

In this provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism of the past […]

Notice, Passing

The Atlanta Inquirer – “Examining A Blemished Soul”

" . . . does authenticity matter? How much information is owed another? When is nondisclosure lying, and more profoundly, how does lying (about your being, existing) affect the soul?"

Notice, Passing

The Winston-Salem Chronicle – “Crossing the Color Line”

“I think the response today to an exposed passing is different. It’s kind of a big ‘so what . . .’”