Inside the Untold Struggles and Triumphs of Carol Lin: A Memoir That Reveals the True Cost of Breaking News
Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay
When I was a teenager, everyone had an opinion about what I should do with my life. ‘Pediatrician. Mother. Architect. Journalist,’ they sang. More specifically, “A broadcast journalist!”
I went to nursing school. When I was just out of nursing school, living in the Midwest, I took a job at a behavioral research company. It was there, on that horrific morning, while reviewing data, when a plane—and then another—crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City.




