News Junkie

By Jason Leopold

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“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

“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

“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

“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

In News Junkie, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.

Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation’s infamous phony trading floor as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswires. While he exposed high-rolling hucksters and double-dealing politicians, Leopold hid the secrets of his own felonious past, terrified that he would be discovered.

When the news junkie closed in on his biggest story-one that implicated a Bush administration member-he found himself pilloried by angry colleagues and the President’s press secretary, all attempting to destroy his career.

Jason Leopold introduces us to an unforgettable array of characters, from weepy editors and love-starved politicos to steroid-pumped mobsters who intimidate the author into selling drugs and stolen goods.

In the end, News Junkie shows how a man once fueled by raging fear and self-hatred transforms his life, regenerated by love, sobriety and a new, harmonious career with the independent media.

Jason Leopold is a former Los Angeles Bureau Chief of Dow Jones Newswires. He has worked for the Los Angeles Times and has been a frequent guest on CNBC; his articles have appeared in The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. Leopold currently writes for CounterPunch, Political Affairs, and Z Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

“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

“Frighteningly honest. What Anthony Bourdain did to the world of cooking in Kitchen Confidential, Leopold will do to the world of journalism. It’s Sid & Nancy meets All the President’s Men.”
— Rob Cohen, coauthor of Etiquette for Outlaws

“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero as he gains a liberating knowledge of himself.”
— Joe Loya, author of The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber

5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 256 pages, ISBN 0-9760822-4-1, $16

Visit Jason Leopold's investigative news site Public Record here.

View the News Junkie website.

** Order News Junkie through Process and receive a signed copy at no additional charge. **

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