Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lisa Napoli has had a long career in journalism, including staff reporting jobs at public radio's Marketplace, the pioneering New York Times CyberTimes, and as columnist/correspondent at MSNBC. She is the author, most recently, of Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News. She has also written a biography of NPR benefactor Joan Kroc, Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, and a memoir, Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. She lives in Los Angeles.
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A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions ... SEE MORE