News Junkie on the L.A. TIMES Bestseller list, #4 June 11, 2006, #8 July 16, 2006

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PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

"I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who insists on real investigative reporting–inside documents, inside sources, hard knife-in-the-gut evidence–detective-style reporting that is just about illegal in the U.S.A. Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot."
— Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

“Jason Leopold’s News Junkie, an autobiographical look at Leopold’s accidental entrance into journalism, is a powerful piece that delves into one man’s misery and success.”
— Boston Herald

"Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a 'news junkie.' This scrappy memoir ... might become required reading for aspiring journalists."
— Publishers Weekly

With its superbly presented candor, News Junkie is very highly recommended reading both as a memoir offering unique insights into the mind and life of an investigative journalist, and as a"slice of life" window into the stories and personalities behind headline stories of corruption and crime."
---Midwest Book Review

"Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth."
— T.D. Allman, journalist and author of Rogue State, Unmanifest Destiny, and Finding Florida

"Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be."
— Mark Crispin Miller, author of Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order


PRESS

June 15, 2006
News Junkie reviewed by Sam Smith on the Undernews at Progressive Review

June, 2006
News Junkie reviewed in Midwest Book Review

April 20, 2006
Jason Leopold interview on Air America's "Edge Schultz show"
Listen to the MP3 rebroadcast.

March 6, 2006
Publishers Weekly Review


Praise for the book | Press