Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

"Reporting the Nuremburg Trials is steeped in reverence for an era in journalism faintly lit by modern history despite its many parallels to today. Fletcher again and again reveals lessons for today's real-time news cycles, including the perils of misinformation, professional subterfuge and abbreviated ethics." ~Jesse Garnier, Journalism Chair and Associate Professor, San Francisco State University

“Author Noel Marie Fletcher’s skillfully organized narrative is enlivened and ennobled by her admirable balancing of the varied personal accounts…” ~ARGunners.com

“Reporting is often the first step in defining history. The Nuremberg trials have been seen and experienced through media and are part of how we saw the aftermath of WW2. Through this book, we can also see the making of this important story, and knowing what was done in preparation and behind the scenes gives depth and meaning to the important journalistic work.” ~Lars Boering, director of the European Journalism Centre foundation

“Full of relevance for the present, this book not only places the journalists who reported from the Nuremberg trials centre stage but, with them, the very idea of vocation central to any meaningful definition of journalism in a democracy. More complex than a potentially dry report, we have instead a cross-fertilisation of serious political commentary with accounts of the human interest latent in the foibles and fanaticism of the Nazis brought into the public gaze. Despite the wealth of underpinning archival material, the pace never flags and the style remains engaging throughout.” ~Martin D. Conboy, Emeritus Professor of Journalism History, University of Sheffield

"Reporting the Nuremberg Trials brings to life in vivid detail the evidence, the atmosphere of tension, and the personalities assigned to inform the world about the 20th century's most consequential tribunal that brought the most notorious war criminals of the Nazi regime to justice. A must-read for scholars and students of history, human rights, and the role of media in the modern world.” ~Scott Wallace, bestselling author of "The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes and Central America in the Crosshairs of War"

"There is a lot to like here, from the you-are-there courtroom coverage, to the descriptions of Germany in the immediate postwar period, to reflections on recording and disseminating history, and finally to lessons that are relevant to journalists — and their readers or listeners today... this is a book that historians, journalists, and citizens alike can enjoy and learn from. The author’s conclusion is “had it not been for these correspondents, the Nuremberg trials likely would continue to sit on law library bookshelves filling twenty-two volumes with pages yellowing in time.”
~Dr. Nicholas E. Reynolds, bestselling author, Col. USMCR (ret.) & editor of The Journal of America’s Military Past