Kristina Borjesson is a freelance journalist . She edited an award-winning collection of essays , '' Into the Buzzsaw : Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press '' ( 2002 ) , for which she wrote a chapter detailing her investigation of the TWA Flight 800 crash . '' Into the Buzzsaw '' won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism and an Independent Publishers Award in the current events category . The book was also a New York Public Library " Books to Remember " selection . Borjesson 's second book , '' Feet to the Fire : The Media After 9/11 , Top Journalists Speak Out '' contains a series of interviews with distinguished American journalists and news executives discussing the problems of press coverage of the run-up to the Iraq War as well as the war itself . '' Feet to the Fire '' also won the Independent Publishers Award in the current events category . In July 2013 , '' TWA Flight 800 '' , a feature-length investigative film Borjesson wrote , produced and directed , was released on the Epix premium cable channel . In the film , former members of the original government investigation into the mid-air explosion of a 747 off the coast of Long Island , New York on July 17 , 1996 , come forward to discuss how the original investigation was undermined . They also present forensic evidence showing what happened to the jetliner . Previously , Borjesson won an Emmy for investigative reporting and a Murrow award for her work as Field Producer/Reporter for the CBS Reports documentary , " Legacy of Shame , " updating CBS 's signature documentary on migrant farmworkers , " Harvest of Shame " with Edward R. Murrow . Borjesson also produced and co-wrote the CBS Reports biography of Cuba 's Fidel Castro titled " The Last Revolutionary , " which was Emmy-nominated . For CNN 's " NewsStand " show , she produced several lead pieces , including a two-part investigation of the business practices of Hollywood agents and managers . In September 2013 , Borjesson released on Amazon Kindle her first work of fiction , '' The Reptile Club Librarian '' , a book based on the life of a man who spent most of his professional life working both sides of the law
TWA Flight 800
TWA Flight 800
Kristina Borjesson