Summary

Chapter 8, “Bringing the News,” delves deeply into the topic of news and journalism. Foster introduces a book called “All the President’s Men,” written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who utilized their Washington Post investigative reporting on Watergate to write the book. Foster is fascinated by this title because it blends so many genres and types of writing, and is acutely aware of itself not merely as the telling of the scandal, but rather as the telling of the process of uncovering the scandal. Foster overall uses the book to point to the difficulty and impact of writing a good nonfiction book which incorporates or is based entirely in the rules of investigative journalism.

Chapter 9, “Living the News,” this time explores ‘participatory journalism,’ instead of investigative journalism. Foster first looks at the origins of...