Running toward danger
Subtitle: stories behind the breaking news of 9/11
By: by the Newseum ; with Cathy Trost and Alicia C. Shepard ; [foreword by Tom Brokaw].
Contributors: Shepard, Alicia C., 1953-; Brokaw, Tom.; Newseum.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Distributed by National Book Network; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Personal narratives; Terrorism -- Press coverage -- United States
Genres: Personal narratives.
Description: "From the Newseum, America's first interactive museum of news, comes the definitive book detailing behind-the-scenes stories of how journalists covered the deadly assaults of September 11, 2001. Three kinds of people instinctively run toward danger - firefighters, police officers and journalists. Collected here are dramatic first-person stories of more than 100 reporters and photographers who raced to the scenes of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania.

With a moving foreword by NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, Running Toward Danger is arranged along a chronological timeline of the day and is illustrated with more than 100 photographs, many of them rarely seen. The book documents how journalists overcame daunting logistical and emotional challenges to report to a shaken world the implications of the new century's most terrifying moment. It includes intimate details about the marathon high-wire work of the network anchors and the harrowing stories of ordinary journalists who put themselves in harm's way to report the story.

The book provides an enduring record of a turning point in world history, a book that future generations will rely on for insights about how news was conveyed to a shattered world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 8:53 a.m. AP newsalert ... New York-plane crashes into World Trade Center; title: 9:09 a.m. AP newsalert ... New York-plane crashes into second WTC tower; title: 9:31 a.m. AP newsalert ... Sarasota, Fl.-Bush calls WTC crashes apparent terrorist attack; title: 9:43 a.m. AP newsalert ... Washington-an aircraft has crashed into the Pentagon; title: 10:07 a.m. AP flash ... New York-one World Trade Center tower collapses; title: 10:29 a.m. AP flash ... New York-second World Trade Center tower collapses; title: 11:19 a.m. AP bulletin ... New York-in Pa., a large plane, believed to be a 747 crashed; title: 12:23 p.m. AP newsalert ... New York-police official says casualties could be in thousands; title: 3:28 p.m. CNN ... Giuliani says public transportation is restored; title: 5:25 p.m. Reuters newsalert ... New York-47-story 7 World Trade Center collapses; title: 8:33 p.m. AP newsalert ... Washington-Bush says "thousands of lives suddenly ended"; title: 10:27 p.m. AP newsalert ... New York-mayor says some people alive in trade center.