9/11 25th Anniversary Author Event - Carol Lin with Josh Mankiewicz
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CNN anchor Carol Lin is at the height of her career after becoming the first network journalist to break the news of the 9/11 attacks.
A month later, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a Taliban sniper along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, a stark reminder of the sacrifices she made to succeed in a white-centric, male-dominated journalism career. For Lin, breaking news and the defining split second when lives change is a drug—and a love that her traditional Chinese mother warned would never love her back. But when devastating news breaks apart her own life, Lin is forced to question a career that demands everything, a marriage marked by infidelity and cancer, and the sacrifices required to become the mother her daughter needs her to be.
Carol Lin is best known for being the first national anchor to report the first 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Carol was a long-time anchor and correspondent for CNN and ABC News. During her career, she covered the war in the Middle East, the aftermath of the Kosovo War, the 2002 Winter Olympics, and every imaginable natural disaster from hurricanes, tornadoes, historic wildfires, and floods. Carol Lin received an Emmy, a Peabody, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, and Greater Los Angeles Press Club Awards for Excellence in both Investigative Reporting and her coverage of the Los Angeles Riots. She lives in Hawai'i and can be found writing, paddleboarding, and teaching her Cavapoo tricks.
Josh Mankiewicz is a correspondent for Dateline NBC, the longest running primetime show in NBC history. He began reporting for the newsmagazine in February 1995, and since then, he has contributed a mix of breaking news stories, news analysis, investigative reports to the broadcast.
Mankiewicz has reported on a variety of stories for the newsmagazine, including the 25th anniversary of the O.J. Simpson bronco chase, the Jonestown massacre, and Jon Benet Ramsey investigation. Mankiewicz also championed an examination into television news' coverage of high-profile missing person cases and the role race plays in story selection, making Dateline the first network news program to take on the controversial issue. Mankiewicz has reported a number of #1 podcasts for the Dateline NBC franchise, including Internal Affairs, Dateline: Missing in America, Motive for M**der, Mortal Sin, and most recently, Deadly Mirage. Additionally, he was a part of Dateline’s 2019 induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.
During his time with NBC News, Mankiewicz has covered a wide range of stories, including Hurricane Katrina, the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, the terrorist takeover of Japan’s embassy in Lima, Peru and the trial of Michael Jackson’s cardiologist, Conrad Murray. Additionally, Mankiewicz has investigated America's most dangerous roads, the death of entertainment legend Johnny Carson, and the disappearance of Robyn Gardner, the Maryland woman who vanished after taking a snorkeling trip with a friend. He has also profiled Marcia Clark, Pastor Rick Warren, Janet Jackson, Kim Cattrall, Michael Flatley and Haley Joel Osment.
Prior to joining Dateline, Mankiewicz served as a correspondent for Fox Broadcasting Company's newsmagazine Front Page. Before he joined Fox Broadcasting, Mankiewicz was a political reporter for KCAL-TV, Los Angeles from 1991 to 1993. There he covered all elections and state and local politics.
Mankiewicz also worked as political correspondent for WCBS-TV, New York where he covered local, state and national elections from 1986 to 1991. While he was there, he was a regular contributor to the station's weekly political magazine broadcast, Sunday Edition.
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