When we think of the first work of author Ivan Doig, we often think of This House of Sky, his popular memoir from 1978. In fact, together with his wife Carol, also a journalist, he published his first book News: A Consumer's Guide in 1972, six years earlier.After completing his masters degree in Journalism, Doig initially worked at newspapers and magazines. He moved to Seattle, earning his doctorate in western history in 1969. In News, the authors draw on their extensive background in news gathering and editing to take the reader on an insider's tour of journalism and explain how to consume selectively from what we see and hear. From Doig, "among the most fragile of all our products is information." That statement is as valid today as it was twenty-five years ago.
The majority of Doig's books take place in Montana where he grew up. But this Northwest writer has lived in Seattle since the mid-1960s and has written two books set in this region - Winter Brothers (1980), a book that weaves Doig's own observations of the Olympic Peninsula with those of
