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A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter

by David Tereshchuk (Author) Format: Print on Demand (Paperback)
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David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York.

During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him—his mother.

He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest – and even then, not all her information was reliable.

Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.

This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley, and another revelatory title from EnvelopeBooks.

CARL BERNSTEIN

Investigative Reporter, Co-Author, All the President’s Men

David Tereshchuk is one of the great reporters of our era, covering global conflicts and the leaders who have initiated them, from patriots to despots. Now, using the skills he has honed as an investigative journalist, he may have found his most important subject yet: the real story of what happened in his own young life. Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir that is at once moving, shocking and undeniably heroic.

NEAL ASCHERSON

Journalist and Author, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland;

The Book of Lech Wałesa

The compelling, often heart-breaking story of one man’s search for the stories behind the world’s conflicts and for the dark secret of his own birth. He recalls and reflects on many scenes of horror, but the connecting thread is one of haunting suspense. It’s his never-ending effort to find out who made his fifteen-year-old mother pregnant and became his secret father.

CARY BARBOR

Host, National Public Radio Book Club (WGCU Radio)

Tereshchuk’s vivid writing lands you smack in the middle of a fascinating and heart-rending quest.

LAWRENCE BLOCK

Crime novelist, Matthew Scudder series

David Tereshchuk spent the past half-century chasing through every hot spot and hellhole in the world. Now he’s written a memoir and it’s everything I’d hoped it would be—and here’s the surprise: the richest story of many in it is his very own.

RICK MOODY

Novelist, The Ice Storm

Even-handed and reportorial but also deeply moving, complex and very sad. Tereshchuk is committed to the truth even when the truth is challenging. It’s refreshing to read a work so knowing, so honest, so wise.

DAVID W. DUNLAP

Newspaper Historian and Author, From Abyssinian to Zion

A harrowing journey, rich in detail, shaped by transcendent longing. I found myself engrossed by the account of Bloody Sunday.

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About the Author

David Tereshchuk (b. 1948) is a journalist working mainly in the broadcast media but also for magazines and newspapers (The Guardian, New York Times, New Statesman). He spent two decades with British commercial television, reporting, producing and making documentaries, before moving to the US, where he worked for ABC, CBS, CNN, Discovery, A&E and The History Channel. His earliest work included coverage of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, and then extended into international issues, especially in the Third World. Since 2012 he has been a producer and correspondent for PBS, concentrating on ethical issues. He broadcasts a weekly public radio dispatch of media criticism, The Media Beat, and writes an online column with the same name, at www.themediabeat.us. He has also advised global corporations, governments, non-profits and international organizations on their media and communications policies. A graduate of Oxford University, he has been a US citizen since 2002 and lives in New York City and Ireland. He has been honored by Britain’s Royal Television Society with its Social Documentary Award, and by the British Association for the Advancement of Science with its Television Award.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ EnvelopeBooks
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1915023157
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1915023155
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 1.09 x 7.81 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #2,567,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • terrence r.
    5 out of 5 stars
    An extraordinary journey combining turning points in history with a personal mystery
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2025
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    Highly engaging autobiography of a TV journalist whose career quickly moved to covering international war/civil strife zones, starting with the Irish 'Troubles' and weaving to the decolonization of several African countries. David delves into realities of covering such conflicts: deft and persistence in securing interviews; invaluable relationships that contribute to his personal safety and coverage; the comfort with embracing risk and constant need for quick decision making. Having established relationships with several African leaders before their prominence, David also touches on their transition to leadership and their mission in overturning colonialism. In an intriguing career pivot to a less risky track, David becomes more engaged in covering religion and ethics in the US and UK

    As engaging and amazingly open, is his examination of his personal journey starting with absolute poverty and the question around his paternity. His rapid rise to success through a scholarship to Oxford and early wins as a risk-taking journalist, leads to a challenging life that balances of career, alcohol and relationships. David transparently examines each of these in an honest reflection that fully acknowledges his agency and struggles.

    And then there is the question of his paternity - a locked-up secret of his mother, that resists his best journalistic capabilities over decades, until she provides a clue just before her death that point to a priest. His investigative nature takes over, despite trying some restraint, and the reader gains insights into web of 'openness' yet 'only so much'.

    Delighting the reader throughout is David's superb use of language. Using a rich vocabulary that is the hallmark of an excellent journalist, David brings the reader right into the moment, especially in delving in the many dimensions of human relationships and emotions.

    Needless to say, David's book is rewarding on many levels that is worth reading more than once.

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  • Stephen Games
    5 out of 5 stars
    Media rags to riches - with a dark underbelly
    Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024
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    Imagine going through life not knowing who you. Imagine having a mother who refused to answer your one recurring question - who your father was. She knew, of course, full well, but until David Tereshchuk was in his 50s, she wouldn't say, and then when she did gave him a false steer. In this disturbing media memoir, the author charts his rise from poverty on the English-Scottish borders, to success as an international reporter based in New York, propelled not least by an event he witnessed and that still pains him: the shooting by British troops of 14 unarmed civil-rights protesters in Northern Ireland - the event now known as Bloody Sunday, and which Tereshchuk has explored in recent events at the American-Irish Historical Society in New York and at the National Press Club in Washington, both accompanied by Don Mullan, the leading campaigner for British openness on the subject and another survivor of the event. This is a very skilfully written book, a deft balance of the public and the personal, praised by Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men), and deserves its place on the shelf alongside the memoirs of other New York celebrity journalists like Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.

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  • Sandy McCall
    5 out of 5 stars
    A Veteran Of Old School Writing Standards Looks Back
    Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2025
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    A very good story about surviving the challenges of being a journalist in an age of Internet stupidity. The writer spent a lot of time covering the Civil War in Northern Ireland and has some very cogent opinions about that sad period.The writer is also very frank about his own shortcomings which adds credibility to his book.

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  • Lucky Severson
    4 out of 5 stars
    Tereschchuk's, foreign correspondent, searching for the father that may have raped his mother
    Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2025
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    A QUESTION OF PATERNITY

    David Tereshchuk has spent his long career chasing stories around the world. He is still a foreign correspondent for British and American TV and radio, and a good one. But the story that drove him to drink is still haunting him. Who was his father? Sometime in his early life, he learned that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother. And then, much later, he learned his mother had been raped by a Catholic priest but he doesn’t know who or where his father, the rapist, is or if he’s still alive. One of the things that really struck me about this book is its honesty. That, and the writing. That, and all the wonderful stories tucked in between. Read it, you’ll like it.

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  • Griot Lover
    5 out of 5 stars
    A modern day Odyssey told by a gifted writer.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2025
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    Just finished David Tereshchuk’s, A Question of Paternity: My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter. What an accomplishment. I was with this story all the way!

    I can’t recommend this any more than I do here to anyone who has crossed paths with this gentleman as he has gone about living his life, conducting his investigations, reporting on the various emergences & emergencies in his life both public & private in ways that help us to understand more about the worlds we inhabit both internally & externally.

    Having little identification with this writer’s professional work I was drawn into this work via my identification with the meaning of the questions & struggles he has sought to find answers & solutions to. What a gift. I think it would make great film. Thanks, Mr. Tereshchuk, for your activity in the world.

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