ALIVE on the
Andrea Doria! The Greatest Sea
Rescue in History
| PRESS KIT | TALKING POINTS | PHOTOS FOR MEDIA USE |
MEDIA COVERAGE LIST
International and National Broadcast:
Joey Reynolds Show Interview Live Radio July 20, 2006 and June 19, 2008
Bill Thompson, online “Eye on Books”, interview/podcas
AP Pod cast Interview/Book Reading (357 Newspapers/Online) July 23, 2006
CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood feature segment
July 23, 2006
La Rai “Speciale TG Uno” of La Rai News TV magazine, 2006, 2007,
2008
(Major Italian “60 Minutes” type program) July 23, 2006 US and Italy
PBS Special National Airing “Secrets of the Dead: the Sinking of the
"Andrea Doria”, beginning July 26, 2006 8 pm. (Aired May 27, 2006 in Italy) Windsor Cable, Windsor, Canada 2008
Regional Broadcast:
WMUK, Michigan PBS radio station, Interview July 7, 2006
Fox News Channel 2 feature Detroit July 13, 2006
“Your Morning”CN8 Comcast PA/DE/NY/MD/+; 4,300,000 subscribers
Live Interview July 19, 2006
WJR 760 News/Talk Detroit, The Mitch Album show, July 23, 2006
Brad Davis Program Radio Interview WDRC Hartford July 25, 2006
(Includes WSNG, WCCO, WMMW)
PBS of Michigan, author appearing after PBS national documentary
“Secrets of the Dead: Andrea Doria” August, 2006
American OGGI Radio Italian Interview July 24th or 25th, 2006
WTIC, Hartford, CT, James Di Giuseppi, live interview, July 25, 2006
WDRC Radio (WSNG, WCCO, WMMW) CT Brad Davis Show July 25, 2006
WXYZ Channel 7 Detroit July 26, 2006 Segment
WTBQ Radio Frank Truatt Morning Show (NY/NJ) July 26, 2006
WTBQ Radio (Orange Cty-N.NJ) Frank & Rob Show July 28, 2006
WJR 760 News/Talk Detroit, Warren Pierce, July 30, 2006
WCAR 1090AM, Catholic Radio, Dino Valle, September 27, 2006
ABC, Channel 7, Our Italian Story, documentary, December 9, 16, 25, 2006
KDKA Radio, "CBS News After Midnight" with Gary Dickson, 2007
WJR radio, Morning Talk Show with Paul W. Smith, 2007
Clinton Twp. Cable, Financial Matters, Tom Hakim, 2007
Shelby Twp. Cable, Phil Nye, 2007
Grosse Pointe Cable, Jeannie Taylor, 2007
SWOCC (cable), 2007, 2008
Suburban Lifestyles, Novi and Rochester Hills, 2006 & 2007
NewsRadio 1640, 2009
WGN Television Chicago/America, 2009
Shelby Township cable, 2009
Clinton Township cable, 2009
The Italian Tribune, 2009
National Print/Online
Wired.com News Feature July 24, 2006
MSNBC.com Feature July 24, 2006
USA Today Feature July 24, 2006
Yahoo! News July 24, 2006
AP Feature Story, Richard Pyle (Scores of US newspapers)
FindLaw.com Legal News Feature July 24, 2006
Italian Tribune Andrea Doria special issue/interview
St. Anthony Messenger Press Book Review (circ. 342,000 monthly)
Italian America Magazine (circ. 180,000) (Order Sons of Italy in America)
Triangle Magazine (International Classical Music publication)
“Voyages”, a Titanic international bulletin, July story
Sea Classics Magazine June book review
Soundings Magazine June book review
“Voyages”, Titanic International, book review, fall issue
“Proceedings and Naval History” magazine, U.S. Naval Institute
The Steamship Historical Sociaty, magazine book review, September, 2006
The Order of the Sons of italy, chose book for its book club members and
for review in their fall newsletter
St. Anthony's Messenger, book review, fall
The Catholic Digest, 2006 & 2007
Writers in the Sky, Yvonne Perry, 2007, 2009
Fascinating Authors, Penny Sansevieri, 2007
Jay Grayce Show, 2008
Lu An Mitchell, Voice of America, 2008
Novi.com, 2008, 2010
REGIONAL Print/Online
Detroit News feature, July 21, 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review and feature, July 25, 2006
Oakland Press (Detroit area) feature July 12, 2006
Boca Raton News survivor story July 18, 2006
Newsday (Long Island) feature July 22, 2006; July 24, 2006
San Antonio Express-News feature July 23, 2006
Times-Herald feature August, 2006
Journal News Westchester-Rockland-Putnam NY Feature July 21, 2006
Staten Island Advance Feature July 22, 2006
Metro Newspaper NY-Boston-Phil feature July 25, 2006
Seattle Post-Intelligencer feature July 24, 2006
Sky Valley Journal Wyoming Feature July 24, 2006
San Antonio Express News MySanAntonio.com feature July 22, 2006
New York Daily News feature July 23, 2006
Austin American Statesman feature July 24, 2006
Austin 360.com feature July 24, 2006
Star Tribune Minn-St. Paul feature 7/25/06
The Providence Journal feature July 24, 2006
The Seattle Times feature July 25, 2006
Daily Herald News Chicago Area feature July 25, 2006
Auburn Citizen NY feature July 27, 2006
Dayton Daily News Ohio feature July 24, 2006
Boston Globe feature, July 12 and July 24, 2006
America Oggi, Oggi 7 Sunday insert feature July 16, 2006
New York Daily News feature July, 2006
“The Inside Scoop” Detroit Country Day School’s newsletter, feature
“Novi News” web story and print newspaper feature July, 2006
“Suburban Lifestyles” of Novi feature July 11, 2006
Rochester Feature July 18, 2006, 2007, 2008
“Smart Women’s Coaching”, e-newsletter, feature June, 2006 issue
Lancaster Sunday News, Lancaster, PA feature July 24, 2006
Daily Record, New Jersey markets, feature July 26, 2006
Downriver News-Herald, (S.E. Michigan) feature, August, 2006
Italian Tribune of the Detroit Metro Area, feature, August 10, 2006
The Windsor Star (Canada), feature, July 31, 2006
Wichita Eagle, feature, July 25, 2006
Sun-Sentinal, Boca Raton, survivor interview, August 18, 2006
The Observer-Eccentric papers, feature, August 24, 2006
Il Giornale Italiano, November, 2006
Suburban Lifestyles, December, 2006
Italian Tribune, December, 2006, 2007, 2008
“Shipwrecks! The Great Lakes and Beyond”, book review, fall issue
Illinois Library Association, Chicago, presentation: Sally Walker, reviewer
Detroit Country Day School "Beehive" publication,
feature, 2007 and 2008
Italian Tribune, MI, 2006, 2007, & 2010
Il Giornale Italiano, MI, 2006, 2007, 2008
Il Giornale Italiano-Americano, NYC, 2008
Strut, women’s magazine of S.E. Michigan, 2008
Novi/Northville News, 2008
Macomb Daily, 2008
Hometown Life, Novi/Northville, 2009
Novi.com, 2009
International
International Herald Tribune France Feature July 24, 2006
Monsters & Critics.com UK, Feature July 22, 2006
The London Times Feature July 26, 2006
Canoe Quebecor Media Online feature July 25, 2006
Toronto-Star feature July 26, 2006
Yacht Capital “The Sea Has Not Claimed Me” article
June, 2006 interview in “Pagine del Piemonte” (Italian international
journal)
Published in Titanic Diaries, a book by Anthony Cunningham
Sardinia News, feature, August 15, 2006
The Steamship Society, book review in magazine, September, 2006
Oggi magazine feature and review (Italy’s largest/oldest magazine).
Crew of the Andrea Doria Survivor’s Ceremony event in Genova, Italy
Italy Book Promotion Tour: Sperling & Kupfer,October,Milan, Genova,
Rome, Naples, November, 2006.
Ships Monthly, Britain, fall, 2006 review
Titanic International of Germany, Germany 2007
In Italy
A renowned film/TV producer has
secured rights to use L’ULTIMA NOTTE
DELL’ANDREA DORIA (the
Italian translation of ALIVE
ON THE ANDREA
DORIA!) for a movie.
Author was invited
to Genova’s Museo del Mare.The sculpture
she commissioned,
with Jerome Reinert and
Angela Addario, was recognized with book Alive
on the
Andrea Doria! Both
items are now part of the
museum's permanent collection.
Book tour of Italy: Milano,Torino, Genova
Also, a large Italian distributor of books to commercial enterprises: airports,
shopping centers, kiosques,
etc., has chosen L’ULTIMA
NOTTE DELL’ANDREA
DORIA for
nation-wide distribution.
Related
items of interest
The Commemorative
Bronze medallions unveiled
at the Survivor’s
Reunion on July
23, are permanently
exhibited in New
York's South
Street Seaport
Museum and
in Genova's Museo
del Mare. These
were commissioned
by the author,
fellow survivor
Jerome Reinert
and Angela Addario,
and executed by
northern California
sculptor, Daniel
Oberti.
Survivor Julianne
McLean’s daughter,Angela
Addario,
composed a classical
work,
"A
Voyage of Memories" or
“Il Viaggio della
Memoria”. It
features the Alive
on the Andrea Doria!
book cover on the
CD jacket.
To order a CD, contact
the composer at
PeakPerformanz@yahoo.com.
Please, contact author at pierette@pierettesimpson.com for permission.
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