Warren H. Phillips -- Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at the Wall Street Journal -- Gables

Start: Jan 12 2012 8:00 pm

Newspaperman (McGraw-Hill, $30) tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work.Warren Phillips began his career working as a copyboy and ended it as publisher of "The Wall Street Journal" and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillipsis the story of the American newspaper business. Here, the details of his vast experience come together to create a broad picture of the newspaper business -- revealing how news is discovered, reported, edited, published, and disseminated. Sharing vivid tales of working as a reporter around the world and describing the many colorful characters he meets along the way, Phillips provides a level of insight that only a leading figure in the industry could offer.