Author Description

Lila Van Dam, publisher of The New York Standard, a family-owned daily newspaper, needs to choose which of her three sons is best suited to succeed her. Her time in the top job is running out and for the first time in its history of more than a hundred years, the future of the paper is in doubt. Technology is fast becoming the dominant news provider and the next publisher will determine the newspaper's survival and her family's as well. How the Van Dams survive this decision is the stuff of common existence, captured here in a riveting drama.