Faith and Air
The Miracle List
Published on 3. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-1-61153-225-8 (ISBN)
Description
A longtime journalist grounded in facts confronts stories that ask for faith.
Throughout his thirty years on the air, television reporter Scott Mason has interviewed countless people who unexpectedly offered up miracle stories. Such as the legendary golf broadcaster who makes for a wonderful personality profile—and then says, "Oh, and by the way, I died and came back to life." Or the sole survivor of a plane crash who describes his harrowing ordeal—and tells of a radiant vision he says he witnessed while catapulting through the fuselage. One after another the miracle stories kept coming, but Scott Mason suspected these stories would never find their way onto the air. So he made a miracle list and dug deeper into these intriguing accounts on his own.
As he pursues the leads throughout this book, Scott shares a compelling narrative of fact and faith and his personal struggle to balance them both.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
247 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61153-225-8 (9781611532258)
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10/2017
Light Messages Publishing
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Person
Scott Mason is a broadcast journalist with 32 years of televisionexperience. He has won dozens of awards for documentaries, writing, and feature reporting,including three National Edward R. Murrow awards and 20 regional Emmys. In both 2004 and 2005, theElectronic NewsAssociation of the Carolinas named Scott the North Carolina Television Reporter of the Year.
Scott has worked as a reporter and bureau chief for network affiliates in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Winston-Salem,North Carolina; and Dayton, Ohio. In 1991, Scott joined the PBS affiliate inRichmond, Virginia, where he created, wrote, produced, and hosted a weeklynewsmagazine. Virginia Currents won more than 100 awards for journalistic excellenceduring Scott's six-yeartenure. The United States Information Agency distributed the program to embassies worldwide.
Scott's success caught the attention of WRAL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina. InApril, 1997, Scott became the station's Documentary Producer. He researched, wrote, andproduced nine documentariesbefore adding his talents to the nightly news team as a reporter specializing in features.
Today, Scott is known as the Tar Heel Traveler. His Monday-Thursday feature series on WRAL takesviewers along the back roads of North Carolina where he meets memorable characters, findsout-of-the-way places, and unearths fascinating historical footnotes. Theseries has become so popular it has led to Tar Heel Traveler half-hour specials, which Scott produces each quarter.
Scott hasalso published two books about his television adventures: Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys acrossNorth Carolina (2010) and Tar Heel Traveler Eats: Food Journeys across NorthCarolina (2014).Both are published by Rowman &Littlefield Press.
Scott graduated in 1984 from Washington and Lee University in Lexington,Virginia, where he majored in Journalism and Communications. He earned his MFAdegree in creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte in 2015. Scottlives in Raleigh with his wife Nina, daughters Lane and Genie, and son Scout.