TODAY on our Journalist’s Toolbox | Resources: A Guide to Investigative Books and Films from the Global Investigative Journalism Network.

Does the name Gabriel Garcia Marquez sound familiar? His works of magical realism like “Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Autumn of the Patriarch,” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” are all acclaimed fiction writings but do you know that he was also a journalist?

In fact, his book “News of a Kidnapping” published in 1998 is one of the resources for investigative journalists recommended by the Global Investigative Journalism Network. The book, according to the GIJN details the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of a handful of prominent journalists and others in Colombia in the early 1990s by the Medellin drug cartel, operated by the late Pablo Escobar.

Click on the photo of Gabo to read the full article on the GIJN website. Happy reading!

HE was a journalist, too. Gabo or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His book is recommended as a resource for investigative journalists by the GIJN | Photo from wikicommon