Description: After a lengthy tenure as a newswriter, author Yolanda Joe left CBS news in Chicago to write fiction full-time. "This Just In" is a novel only an insider could write. Like a fictionalized Volunteer Slavery crossed with the movie Broadcast News, "This Just In..." is filled with elements Joe's fans love: lively dialogue, vividly realistic characters, and a crafty plot. But most important, she stretches beyond her previous territory and investigates two explosive topics, racism and sexism, while portraying the slippery world of broadcast news through the lives of five friends -- four black and one white -- who work at WKBA in Chicago.

Filled with fascinating insider tidbits and page-turning twists, Joe weaves her way into the lives of her characters: Upstart reporter/anchor Holly Johnston; broadcast veteran Alexandra Harbor; wife/mother/producer Kenya Adams; WKBA's first female cameraman Meg "Beans" Rippley; and corporate trailblazing news manager Denise Mitzler. As these women try to negotiate the glass ceiling and contend with office politics and corporate roulette, Joe plumbs her signature themes of friendship and family, and gets to the heart of issues that will strike a chord with women everywhere.

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