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Tell Them I Didn't Cry A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq by Jackie Spinner and Publisher Scribner. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780743298865, 0743298861. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780743288552, 0743288556. Tell Them I Didn't Cry A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq by Jackie Spinner and Publisher Scribner. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780743298865, 0743298861. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780743288552, 0743288556. Cookie Consent and Choices. NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. You may click on “ Your Choices ” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. You can adjust your cookie choices in those tools at any time. If you click “ Agree and Continue ” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. Mental Foodie: A Book & Food Lover. Title: Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq Author: Jackie Spinner with Jenny Spinner Year: 2007 Page: 265 (with 8 pages of black and white photos) Genre: Non-Fiction: Memoir, War. New to me author? Yes Read this author again? No Tearjerker? No Where did it take place? Iraq FTC Disclosure: Borrowed from the library. Brief Summary - from Publishers Weekly on amazon.com: Jackie Spinner, a Washington Post staff writer, left the steady analytics of financial reporting for the terror-laden beat of Iraq in May 2004. In this memoir, she writes in simple yet descriptive language about the daily challenges and rewards of life in a war zone. Over the course of nine months, she carves her niche at the Baghdad bureau as den mother and human-interest reporter. She objectively reports on the struggles and aspirations of everyday Iraqis, the triumphs and failures of the military and the violence that traps her indoors most of the time—but the heart of this book is in her personal investment in the bureau's Iraqi staff. Spinner cooks weekly dinners for them, plays soccer in the hallways with them and teaches them English. Each chapter ends with reflections written by Jenny, her twin back home, an English professor, who belies her fears with chipper encouragement and dreads toy deliveries to her son because Jackie always orders them online after near-death experiences. Affable and earnest, Spinner made herself at home in war, creating a "family" despite cultural and language barriers, and hers is a unique perspective on living and reporting in Iraq. Why did I pick this book? I was browsing in the library, looking to see what other books they have on the Iraq War after reading Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood in 2009. The title caught my eye, and I thought it'd be interesting to read a book from a reporter's perspective - I always wonder why they decided to risk their lives to go. Jackie Spinner attempted to explain what made her go to Iraq and why reporters deserved the same support that military personnel received from the public - is it really a story of joy, loss and survival as stated in the subtitle? Well. maybe a little of each, plus her frustration and anger and vent and denial. Quote: This is one of Jenny (the twin)'s passage that really jumped out to me (p128) - while I don't think it's a spoiler, but thought I'd warn you in case you don't want to know! "Of course, I knew it," I reassured her. "You're my twin." But after I hung up the phone, I remained under the blanket, too ashamed to face the daylight. I hadn't felt anything at all. Books similar to this book that I like: Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell. 2 comments: I think that I'll skip this one, but I'll keep an eye out for the book you liked better. I'm not a fan of whining in memoirs. Jackie Spinner. M.J., Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley; B.S., Journalism, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Former staff writer (1995-2009), The Washington Post . Founder of two independent student newspapers in the Middle East, AUIS Voice in Iraq and Al Mir'ah in Oman. U.S. Fulbright Scholar, 2010-2011, Oman. Has published in Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Slate, Glamour, Aswat al-Iraq, American Journalism Review, Defense Quarterly Standard and U.S. Catholic News . Author of Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A young journalist's story of joy, loss and survival in Iraq (Scribner 2006). Co-director of Conflict Zone, a combat photojournalism exhibit. Instructional Areas. Digital Storytelling, Photojournalism, International Reporting, Conflict Reporting, News Reporting. Reporter to Share Experiences as War Correspondent in Iraq. When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. In her new book, "Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq," Spinner reveals the challenges of reporting news when danger and fear accompany journalists everywhere. Spinner will talk at DukeUniversity at 4 p.m. April 6 about her experiences in Iraq. The talk, in classroom 04 at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the DeWittWallaceCenter for Media and Democracy at Duke. From her first day on the job, when she dodges an angry mob and is shut out of Baghdad's safe Green Zone, Spinner describes in her book the difficulties of being a woman in a country where women are not free, and being a reporter in a place where journalists themselves are targets. She talks about learning to cope with mortars, car bombs, body guards and flak jackets as well as her disillusionment at the negative responses from Post readers in the States. Spinner also describes in her book life-changing events, such as barely escaping a kidnapping and being embedded with a Marine unit, and personal stories of people she meets and places she visits, of warm friendships with the Iraqi staff who became a family to her, and of internal conflicts, such as being torn about whether to return to the United States for her grandmother's funeral. "Tell Them I Didn't Cry" also features brief vignettes from Spinner's twin sister, Jenny, that offer a window into families waiting and worrying at home. Spinner has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since May 1995. She was a co-winner of the 2005 Distinguished International Reporting award from the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild..
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