Inside the Untold Struggles and Triumphs of Carol Lin: A Memoir That Reveals the True Cost of Breaking News
Please join me in conversation with Carol Lin.
Leslie Lindsay: Carol, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me about When News Breaks. I always like to start with the beginning. What prompted you to write this story, now, twenty-five years after some of the pivotal moments in the book, 9/11, for one?
Carol Lin: I wanted to complete the book I started writing when I left CNN in 2008, but setting it aside has made it much richer, and frankly, a more candid narrative about what it was like as a female journalist defined by the gaze of others and the complicated love story that threads throughout the memoir. Time passing allowed me to interrogate myself and see clearly how a life of breaking the news almost broke me. September 11, 2001 was a turning point for my career, but also my marriage when my husband and I decided to have a child. His cancer diagnosis when we were six months pregnant was a master class in navigating what it meant to be a career woman, wife and soon-to-be mother.
