Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions; Travels with an NPR Correspondent

New York: Rodale, Inc, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xv, [1], 239, [1] pages. Illustrations. Signed on the half-title page. Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news and other assignments. In 2018, he won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. He has won three national awards: a Scripps Howard National Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists Award for Investigative Reporting, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for a website. Burnett's memoir, Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent, was well received. He served as an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. His work was singled out by judges for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award honoring the network's overall coverage of the Iraq War. Burnett won a National Headliner Award for investigative reporting about corruption among immigration agents on the U.S.-Mexico border. In this candid, intimate account, an award-winning 20-year veteran NPR correspondent takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it's really like gathering the news on the front lines. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff and the Kosovo conflict. He has covered the drug wars in Central America; been embedded in a Marine Division in Iraq; and weathered Hurricane Katrina, breaking news hourly on the conditions in New Orleans. And he was one of NPR's lead reporters on 9/11 and its aftermath. But no matter how much time Burnett has on the air to report his stories there are always valuable details that aren't mentioned. Now he fills those in, letting us witness the parts of the stories that remained off the air. In Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions, Burnett exposes the hilarious moments, bizarre encounters, dangerous highways, insufferable colleagues, and unsung heroes he's known through his adventures as an NPR reporter. The result is a revealing and personal account that will fascinate not only NPR listeners but also anyone interested in the state of our world today and how the media covers it.