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When News Breaks: A Memoir of Love and War

by Carol Lin

A journalist’s life beyond the headlines

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A journalist’s life beyond the headlines

Carol Lin’s memoir connects landmark moments in broadcast journalism with the personal costs of a career built around breaking news. The account moves from her reporting on the September 11 attacks and work near the Pakistan–Afghanistan border to upheavals in her marriage and family life. Alongside the demands of a male-dominated profession, Lin considers her mother’s warning that journalism might not love her back, and the choices involved in becoming the mother her daughter needs. The result is a portrait shaped by the tension between professional ambition, intimate relationships, and the search for an identity beyond work.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in journalists’ career experiences and the pressures of broadcast news
  • Readers seeking memoirs about work, marriage, and family responsibilities
  • Readers interested in a woman’s account of navigating a male-dominated profession

Themes

Journalism and ambitionGender and professional barriersMarriage and familyIdentity beyond work

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Book overview

CNN anchor Carol Lin is at the height of her career after becoming the first network journalist to break the news of the 9/11 attacks.

 

A month later, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a Taliban sniper along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, a stark reminder of the sacrifices she made to succeed in a white-centric, male-dominated journalism career. For Lin, breaking news and the defining split second when lives change is a drug-and a love that her traditional Chinese mother warned would never love her back.

 

But when devastating news breaks apart her own life, Lin is forced to question a career that demands everything, a marriage marked by infidelity and cancer, and the sacrifices required to become the mother her daughter needs her to be. Told with fierce wit and candor, When News Breaks is the story of a woman who has been places and seen things but still has to discover who she really is behind the headlines.

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