The Brazil Chronicles / Stephen G. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Stephen G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Bloom, Stephen G.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Newspapers.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Brazil herald.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2024]

Summary:

"As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in The Brazil Chronicles. The expat newspaper was a breeding ground for a different kind of storyteller - audacious risk-takers who told madcap tales of Amazon plantations, Confederate emigres, and lost Indian tribes. Several renown journalists cut their teeth at the Brazil Herald, including acclaimed New York Times correspondent Tad Szulc, Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau, and an untamed Gonzo reporter by the name of Hunter S. Thompson. Drawing from extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews with his former colleagues, Bloom's eye-opening narrative dive is both entertaining and academically rigorous. With a backdrop of coups, nonstop political instability, censorship, hyper-inflation, and weekends at sultry Ipanema Beach, The Brazil Chronicles doubles as a coming-of-age memoir, following young Bloom as he embarks on his quest to become a foreign correspondent, relocating to a foreign country to pursue under-the-radar stories and tall tales. His firsthand experience provides an insider, eye-witness account of the newspaper's colorful history, transporting the reader to its sweltering newsroom and delving into the multifarious lives of its eclectic, trailblazing, polyglot staff. Even as Bloom weaves between personal narrative, history, and accounts from journalism luminaries, it's clear who the book's main character is: the one-of-a-kind newspaper itself. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: A Moment in Time

Part One

Chapter 1. Giovanni

Chapter 2. On My Way

Chapter 3. Over the Moon

Chapter 4. The Operation

Chapter 5. Confederados

Chapter 6. Cidade Maravilhosa

Part Two

Chapter 7. The Ark of the Southern Journalistic Covenant

Chapter 8. Not All Beer and Skittles

Chapter 9. Ralph, Betty, Zschech, Vic, Lee, Joe, and Frank

Chapter 10. Cuba, Teddy, Dawn, Tad, and Marc

Chapter 11. John D., Hugh, Stu, and Margaret

Chapter 12. Senhor Bill

Chapter 13. Gonzo

Chapter 14. Andre, Rita, Eddie, Humphrey, and Jean

Chapter 15. Censors and Spooks

Chapter 16. Merry Pranksters

Chapter 17. "Just Put Your Lips Together and Blow"

Chapter 18. Manic

Part Three

Chapter 19. Sharpened Pencils

Chapter 20. Without Spurs

Chapter 21. Murmurs

Chapter 22. The Letter X

Epilogue: Goodbye, Hello

Acknowledgments

Appendix: The Rio News, Brazil Herald and Latin America Daily Post Editorial Staff

Endnotes

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780826275042

0826275044

OCLC:

1436530576