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An unprecedented memoir that lifts the veil on the very institution charged with covering San Diego—the San Diego Union, Tribune, and San Diego Union-Tribune. Reporter Preston Turegano's page-turning book introduces readers to the inside scoop on the paper of record for “America's Finest City,” documenting newsroom intrigues, local disputes, and more.
The book unfolds as a rambunctious tell-all memoir, filled with a reporter's savvy and a comedian's snarky bite. The Associated Preston offers a unique history of a gay reporter, a newspaper, and a city, and reveals that the heralded paper of record for San Diego often looked the other way when stories came from its own newsrooms.
About the Author
An avid gossip since childhood, Preston Turegano is a retired newspaper reporter who worked for the Union Tribune Publishing Co. of San Diego for 36 years. Before the U-T, he was a U.S. Navy journalist, beginning with three years aboard a WWII-vintage amphibious assault command ship and concluding with a year on the staff of a Navy newspaper in Vietnam during the U.S. war there.
Advance Word
“Every newsroom needs a character like Preston Turegano—gossip, gadfly, and to managers, a goad. For nearly four decades Turegano relished that role at San Diego's Evening Tribune and Union-Tribune. In his dishy The Associated Preston, he pulls no punches or opinions about behind-the-scenes staff and ownership power struggles. But there's plenty to enjoy outside the vanishing world of local journalism in Turegano's chatty book...”Anne Marie Welsh — veteran San Diego Union-Tribune arts critic
