Reporting is often the first step in defining history. The Nuremberg trials have been seen and experienced through media and are part of how we saw the aftermath of WW2. Through this book, we can also see the making of this important story, and knowing what was done in preparation and behind the scenes gives depth and meaning to the important journalistic work.

Lars Boering, director of the European Journalism Centre foundation

“Full of relevance for the present, this book not only places the journalists who reported from the Nuremberg trials centre stage but, with them, the very idea of vocation central to any meaningful definition of journalism in a democracy. More complex than a potentially dry report, we have instead a cross-fertilisation of serious political commentary with accounts of the human interest latent in the foibles and fanaticism of the Nazis brought into the public gaze. Despite the wealth of underpinning archival material, the pace never flags and the style remains engaging throughout.”

Martin D. Conboy, Emeritus Professor of Journalism History, University of Sheffield

The unhurried, ruthless meting of international justice at end of World War II in dismal, post-war Germany plays out through the words and recollections of a battalion of journalists who covered the Nuremberg Trials for 11 months in Noël Marie Fletcher's meticulous, richly-detailed, era-capturing 'Reporting the Nuremberg Trials.'

Over its 203 pages, Fletcher transports us to a defeated Nuremberg reeking of war and death, then into the courtroom and private spaces of reporters determined to cover the nascent spectacle of international justice. Fletcher colorfully carries readers through a rotating cast of hundreds of correspondents, from household names like Walter Cronkite, to pioneering woman journalists like Ann Stringer who persisted despite outward abuse and unfit conditions.

'Reporting the Nuremburg Trials' is steeped in reverence for an era in journalism faintly lit by modern history despite its many parallels to today. Fletcher again and again reveals lessons for today's real-time news cycles, including the perils of misinformation, professional subterfuge and abbreviated ethics.

Fletcher's poring over thousands of pages of court documents, notes and reporting paints a vivid picture of a legal process slowly marching toward the inevitable, while deftly weaving the grindingly slow and gruesome minutia with the challenges, culture, and conflicts inside a competitive and determined international press corps.

Against today's strictly digital media spaces, the grainy, black-and-white lessons of tyranny, suffering and loss after World War II seem buried so coldly within history's vault as to be broadly forgotten and easily repeated.

'Reporting the Nuremberg Trials' artfully captures some of the world's darkest days of reckoning with heinous acts of violence. Fletcher conveys a media culture driven by leaks, fueled by unofficial sources documenting a ward of international villains parading toward their deaths.

Jesse Garnier, Journalism Chair and Associate Professor, San Francisco State University

Noël Marie Fletcher has done us a great service in writing this lucid and highly readable account of the pivotal role played by the international press at the Nuremberg Trials in the months following Germany's defeat in the Second World War. Reporting the Nuremberg Trials brings to life in vivid detail the evidence, the atmosphere of tension, and the personalities assigned to inform the world about the 20th century's most consequential tribunal that brought the most notorious war criminals of the Nazi regime to justice. A must-read for scholars and students of history, human rights, and the role of media in the modern world.

Scott Wallace, bestselling author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes and Central America in the Crosshairs of War.