The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of
24-hour news
How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three
national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking
news? The answer--thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable
television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies--can be
found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because
it was there, in the summer of 1980, that this motley crew somehow,
against all odds, launched CNN.
Lisa Napoli's Up All Night is an entertaining inside look at the
founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was
delivered and consumed. Mixing media history, a business adventure
story, and great characters, Up All Night tells the story of a network
that succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and
uncontrollable founder, and paved the way for the world we live in
today.