Enough to Be Dangerous: One Agent's Life in TV News and Rock & Roll
By Mort Meisner
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As a child in racially turbulent Detroit, Mort Meisner witnessed an attack on a black boy as white parents shouted the n-word and threw rocks to protest bussing to integrate his elementary school in 1960.
Mort Meisner
Mort Meisner is a news industry expert who delivers sharp, insightful commentary about the state of journalism and the world. As founder of Mort Meisner Associates, he is a highly sought-after speaker and commentator, who draws from three decades of experience working in big-city newsrooms across America-and cultivating many talented reporters and anchors who deliver the news today. He achieved against-the-odds success in powerful leadership positions in broadcast news after surviving physical abuse from his father, and recovering from a cocaine habit. Now he applies all of the above as a top broadcast news talent agent. Mort's career began in music, when he promoted some of the biggest names in rock music as a journalism major at the University of Detroit. From there, he embarked on his journalism career that took him to major network stations in Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis. He Emmy Award-winning teams and made it his personal mission to change a culture of racism and sexism in newsrooms. Now at the helm of Mort Meisner Associates, he places some of the most outstanding on-air talent in the industry. Mort is a devoted family man who enjoys baseball, Bruce Springsteen concerts, and continuing to play an influential role as a speaker and commentator.
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