In I, Journalist, and Other Newsroom Introspections, veteran Joel Pablo Salud takes on a newsman’s most challenging beat: the self. Through these interconnected essays (reportage, because backed by pro rigor, or memoir, because meant to be consumed in the quiet hours of self-reckoning? Writ, because hot damn Salud loves his calling and doesn’t want to see it screwed up!), the writer shares the tough breaks and propitious turns of the profession. Just plain compelling storytelling, then, from the light bulb advertorial as literal and figurative career moment, to the almost inhuman standards that most journalists hold themselves up against. The stuff of Salud’s long engagement with the truth and a public that deserves it, this time unpacked, reparsed, and readied for a new readership to discover. —Paolo Enrico Melendez, Editor and fictionist.