paul LaRosa is an award-winning journalist who has worked in print and television journalism for more than 25 years. For 16 years, he was a reporter at the New York Daily News, the hard-charging tabloid newspaper that bills itself "New York's Hometown Newspaper." There, in the mid-80s, he was the co-winner with Anna Quindlen of the Meyer Berger Award given by Columbia University's Journalism School.

Since 1990, LaRosa has worked in broadcast television for CBS News, mostly as a producer for the newsmagazine "48 Hours." He's won two national Emmys, one of them a Primetime Emmy for the highly-praised CBS documentary "9/11." LaRosa was one of the producers of that documentary and in 2003 he was awarded a Peabody Award, a Christopher Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

LaRosa is a graduate of Cardinal Hayes High School, Fordham University and was named a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Susan and their two children Alexandra, 19, and Peter, 16. It is a long way from the James Monroe Housing Projects in the South Bronx where he was raised.



UPCOMING BOOK READINGS AND SIGNINGS:

Sunday, March 19th at 1 p.m.
Book signing
Waldenbooks
Tacoma Mall
Tacoma, WA
(253) 474-4402

Sunday, March 19th at 3:30 p.m.
Book signing/reading
Borders Books
2508 S 38th St, Tacoma, 98409
Tacoma, WA
(253) 473-9111

Monday, March 20th at 7 p.m.
Book signing/reading
Tacoma Public Library
www.tacomapubliclibrary.org
Main Library
Olympic Room
1102 Tacoma Ave. South
Tacoma, WA
(253) 591-5666

Tuesday, March 21st at 7 p.m.
Media Panel
Discussion: Hysteria and the news media
Tacoma Public Library
Main Library
Olympic Room
1102 Tacoma Ave. South
Tacoma, WA
(253) 591-5666

Wednesday, March 22nd at 12:30 p.m.
Book reading/signing
Bellevue Regional Library
1111 110th Avenue Northeast
Bellevue, Washington 98004
(425) 450-1765
http://www.kcls.org/brl/bellgen.cfm#address

Wednesday, March 22nd at 7 p.m.
Lake City Branch Library (Seattle Public Library)
12501 28th Ave NE, Seattle

Thursday, April 20th at 6 p.m.
University Books
1754 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA

Friday, April 21st
Borders books
Opening of store
Federal Way, WA.

Saturday, April 22nd
Wordstock
True Crime panel
Portland, Oregon.