Journalist: Don’t Shoot, by Ronnie Lovler

When Ronnie Lovler arrived in Puerto Rico in 1970, journalism was less a grand calling than an uncertain next step. But from the copy desk of The San Juan Star to award-winning investigations, feminist organizing, and the charged politics of a changing island, she found both her voice and her nerve.

That nerve would carry her into the heart of Latin America’s upheavals. As a freelancer and later a CNN correspondent, Lovler reported from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, and beyond—covering revolutions, elections, invasions, peace accords, and the daily realities of life under pressure. Along the way, she built a family, navigated danger, and learned what it meant to get the story out even when the stakes were life and death.

Candid, vivid, and deeply human, Journalist: Don’t Shoot is a memoir of courage, curiosity, and a life spent crossing borders.