Wrong Kind of Paper - Simmons, Cynthia
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When an ambitious reporter takes a job in a town where nothing ever happens, bad things happen. Hallie Linden yearns to write for the New York Times. At the moment, she's stuck at a daily newspaper in tiny Green Meadow, Indiana, a town known for its amusement park and nothing else. It's 1989, and juicy reporting jobs are hard to find. She resolves to work hard, win a few awards, and then welcome the job offers. Hallie's beats are cops, courts, and schools. When the local D.A.R.E. officer's dog bites a schoolkid-at school-Hallie learns that Green Meadow's townspeople have a reason for keeping…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
When an ambitious reporter takes a job in a town where nothing ever happens, bad things happen. Hallie Linden yearns to write for the New York Times. At the moment, she's stuck at a daily newspaper in tiny Green Meadow, Indiana, a town known for its amusement park and nothing else. It's 1989, and juicy reporting jobs are hard to find. She resolves to work hard, win a few awards, and then welcome the job offers. Hallie's beats are cops, courts, and schools. When the local D.A.R.E. officer's dog bites a schoolkid-at school-Hallie learns that Green Meadow's townspeople have a reason for keeping quiet. A steamy and ill-advised liaison with a firefighter connects Hallie with sources who are eager to talk, yet also fear for their lives. Bull-headed, idealistic Hallie struggles to figure out who she can trust in order to get the real story. Told with gritty detail, Wrong Kind of Paper is a love song to ordinary people who decide to fight for what is right.
Autorenporträt
Cynthia Simmons is an award-winning political reporter who teaches in the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. She has long considered creative writing to be a way to examine truths that are too big for daily journalism. Wrong Kind of Paper is her first novel. Simmons is a co-author of The Jury and Democracy, which examines the life-changing experience of serving on a jury. Her short stories have appeared in the Licton Springs Review. In 2015 she won a Center for American Literary Studies award for nonfiction for an essay about getting a migraine and temporarily losing her vision while reporting inside the Penitentiary of New Mexico. Simmons grew up near Cleveland, Ohio. During high school, she spent a year as an exchange student in Finland. She graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in cultural anthropology. She later earned an M.A. in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has reported for daily newspapers, city magazines, United Press International, The Associated Press, and public radio stations WHA in Madison and KUNM in Albuquerque. She also worked as the news director at the Madison community radio station WORT. In her 40s, she earned a J.D. from the University of Washington. She taught media law in the journalism program at the University of Washington before moving to Penn State. In her spare time, Simmons enjoys Moth-style storytelling, stand-up paddleboarding, and exploring the woods with her dog.