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Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
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Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes

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Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show. It’s a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself.

When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism, breaking some of the most important stories in TV news. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, and the most formidable 60 Minutes figure: legendary correspondent Mike Wallace.

Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As one of Mike Wallace’s top producers, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace’s work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20, Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo.

A master class in how TV news is made, Rosen shows readers how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of some of 60 Minutes' most sensational stories.

Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never-before-told account of the most successful news show in American history.

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Release dateFeb 16, 2021
ISBN9781250756435
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Ira Rosen

For nearly twenty-five years, IRA ROSEN has produced some of the most memorable, important, and groundbreaking stories for 60 Minutes. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Rosen was a senior producer of Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. Rosen has won 24 National Emmys, four duPont Awards, two RFK Awards, and two Peabodys for his work. He is the coauthor of The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island.

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    Ira Rosen's rambling reminiscence and revelations of his career behind the scenes producing the renowned investigative news program. Although there is a lot of scintillating insides onto what took place over the years I found it a bit flat. His profiles and relations with some of the note worthies such as Wallace and Kroft were at times interesting and revealing. Both difficult men to work with and Ira should be noted for putting up with their crap over the years.There was a lot of info on some of the famous stories and investigations they did and again interesting at times, slow at other times. The one factor which both made the series famous and manipulative was how they could really shape and edit their pieces to really sway perceptions, and not always fairly. But what is fair after all in journalism anymore. Fake news the new buzzword, often pioneered by this news program.

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