Walter's perspective
Subtitle: a memoir of fifty years in Chicago tv news
By: Walter Jacobson ; with a foreword by Bill Kurtis
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780809331123; 9780809331130
Subjects: Television journalists; Journalists; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Once a Cubs fan; title: I'm a legman; title: The city news bureau, Queen Elizabeth, and me; title: Jacobson vs. Royko; title: New to tv: from JFK to Muhammad Ali; title: The first Mayor Daley; title: My mouth runneth over; title: From reporter to commentator; title: From commentator to anchor!; title: Heat from Jesse Jackson; title: Madame mayor; title: Bill Kurtis and the golden age of tv news; title: Brown and Williamson vs. Walter Jacobson; title: A new mayor, a controversial minister, and an old nemesis; title: Council wars and newsroom woes; title: Another Mayor Daley and another tv station; title: Blago, Barack, and my orchestrated exit; title: Good-bye to Fox; title: The ups and downs of celebrity; title: Yanked from retirement; title: Epilogue.