Micheaux, an autobiographical novelist before turning to movies, packs "The Symbol of the Unconquered" with a wealth of side characters and subplots that feel like a journalistic deep dive into the economic, social, and criminal underpinnings of the startup town as well as a literary study of the complex psychology of race relations in the North.
In their eyes, it's confounding that someone so deep into their journalistic life can end up at a place like Yellowknifer, and for writers just starting on their journey, he is both a road map and a puzzle.
James McConnachie in the Sunday Times was also enthusiastic about a "thrilling book, which reads at times like a good Victorian novel": Colquhoun's book "burrows deep into the legal and journalistic issues surrounding the case, and a thoughtful afterword unpicks its profound impact on Victorian society".
But despite the positive story of a new journalistic entity with deep pockets coming to life, the coverage has in large part been political from the start, when former Vice President Al Gore sold his Current TV channel to Al Jazeera in January for a reported $500 million.
The Guardian and other media partners brought the old-fashioned journalistic skills and deep expertise required to figure out what mattered -- and the resources (some 40 Guardian reporters worked on the cables alone) and commitment to deal with highly sensitive material responsibly.
While he penetrated a little deeper than many of his journalistic peers by working temporarily as a consultant to Putin's hapless image makers, "The Strongman" is not a biography or an inside-his-head account, but a straightforward chronicle of Putin in power.
In this newly created position Imogen will use her deep understanding of the Guardian's journalistic values to work directly with clients to deliver outstanding commercial results".
For those who treasure the Observer and its ethos, and look back to a great editor whose journalistic DNA is buried deep in the marrow of today's edition, Jeremy Lewis has written a definitive account of Astor and his world.
The other journalistic technique is to heed Deep Throat's immortal advice to Bob Woodward and follow the money trail.
And the disasters are etched deep in the public (or at least journalistic) memory: the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, for example, or the Iran-contra affair in the 1980s.
