September 5, 2006

News Junkie in the Columbia Chronicle

Truth, lies and addiction: Jason Leopold talks about breaking from drugs into journalism
September 5, 2006
by Brent Steven White
from the Columbia Chronicle

Telling the truth isn’t easy when you have so much to hide. Just ask Jason Leopold.

Leopold is the author of News Junkie—a revealing, in-depthmemoir about his experience in the worlds of journalism, politics, high finance, drugs and crime. Candid and brutally honest, the book shows Leopold, an award-winning journalist, coming to terms with a checkered past of drug abuse, physical abuse, crime and the countless lies he told while on his way to exposing some of the biggest political and corporate scandals in a generation.

“There were so many things from my past I was running away from,” Leopold said. “I felt that it got to a point where I needed to be honest with myself about who I was, and that my past was my past. I wanted to break my own story.”

Read the rest of the article at the Columbia Chronicle.

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