The Story, Judith Miller
The Story, Judith Miller
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The Story
A Reporter's Journey

Author: Judith Miller

Narrator: Judith Miller

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2015


Synopsis

Star reporter for the New York Times, the world’s most powerful newspaper; foreign correspondent in some of the most dangerous fields; Pulitzer winner; longest jailed correspondent for protecting her sources, Judith Miller is highly respected and controversial. In this memoir, she turns her reporting skills on herself with the intensity of her professional vocation.

Judy Miller grew up near the Nevada atomic proving ground. She got a job at the New York Times after a suit by women employees about discrimination at the paper and went on to cover national politics, head the paper’s bureau in Cairo, and serve as deputy editor in Paris and then deputy at the powerful Washington bureau. She reported on terrorism and the rise of fanatical Islam in the Middle East and on secret biological weapons plants and programs in Iraq, Iran, and Russia. She covered an administration traumatized by 9/11 and an anthrax attack three weeks later. Miller shared a Pulitzer for her reporting.

She turns her journalistic skills on herself and her controversial reporting which marshaled evidence that led America to invade Iraq. She writes about the mistakes she and others made on the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. She addresses the motives of some of her sources, including the notorious Iraqi Chalabi and the CIA. She describes going to jail to protect her sources in the Scooter Libby investigation of the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame and how the Times subsequently abandoned her after twenty-eight years.

The Story describes the real life of a foreign and investigative reporter. It is an adventure story, told with bluntness and wryness.

About The Author

Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter formerly with the New York Times. She won an Emmy for her work on a Nova/New York Times documentary based on articles for her book Germs. Miller is the author of four books, two #1 bestsellers. She is the recipient of many awards, among them the Society of Professional Journalists’ “First Amendment Award” for her protection of sources. An adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal, Miller is theater critic for Tablet magazine. Since 2008, she has been a commentator for Fox News.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 04, 2022

Judith Miller was an investigative reporter with the New York Times and covered the Middle East. She was on assignment regarding weapons of mass destruction. She spent time in jail for refusing to name her sources. She is the author and/or co-author of four other books. Miller has an incredible bio a......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on January 18, 2020

So... well, the NYT have a lot of interest vested somewhere other than in the interest of informing the public of stuff, don't they? Anyway, this is gonna be a DNF due to distasteful subject, it being a boring story of who gets the better hand in lying and unscrupulousity and me being pretty sure thi......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on May 25, 2015

3 1/2 stars. Part soap opera, part apologia, but lots of very interesting info; about her months in jail (to preserve confidentiality of her news source)--, also eye-opening was her early investigation for her book "Germs" where she researched the huge stockpiles and labs of the USSR and also bin La......more

Goodreads review by Denise on April 18, 2017

At the moment there seems to be a move to resurrect the narrative that the Bush administration lied about the WMD intelligence reports in order to start a war with Iraq. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that there is a Democrat running for President who voted for that war, who needs to blame that vo......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on May 14, 2015

From touring enormous bio warfare factories in Russia, to facing down Taliban with AK-47s, to witnessing hangings and bombings, Judith Miller has been an excellent witness and reporter for thirty years. In some ways her reports on the infighting and backroom politics of the New York Times is almost a......more