From a story on lithub.com headlined “Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism”:

When I set out to write my memoir—Newsroom Confidential; Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-stained Life‚ I got a chance to revisit some of the books about journalism that have delighted and inspired me for decades. Some showed me what was possible for intrepid reporters who never gave up. Some fed my growing worries about today’s troubled media landscape. This collection of some all-time favorites spans almost five decades, from the coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign to the start of the #MeToo movement. Every one of them has influenced me and caused me to say, “I wish I’d written that!”