More After the Break

A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories

By: Jen Maxfield

Narrated by: Jen Maxfield

A reporter uncovers the rest of the story

In More After the Break, Jen Maxfield revisits ten memorable stories from her career as a TV news reporter, describing in heart-pounding detail how the events unfolded and revealing what happened after the cameras went away. She introduces listeners to unforgettable people who will inspire you with their hopefulness, even when confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks: a young man who lost both legs in a ferry crash, an endurance athlete with stage-four lung cancer, a fifth grader on a doomed field trip, an Ivy League undergrad sentenced to decades in prison, a young woman who gave her life for an animal, a Wall Street executive on an ill-fated bike ride, a preschooler whose health hinged on an immigration battle, a family who lost everything in a hurricane, a mother who fought back against domestic violence, and a man who stood up for his rights while seated in his wheelchair.

Returning to find these people years—even decades—after she featured their stories on the news gives Maxfield an opportunity to ask the burning questions she had always pondered: What happened after the live truck pulled away? What is the rest of the story?

©2022 Jen Maxfield (P)2022 Greenleaf Book Group

Like listening to a family member

Jen Maxfield is a stranger but she has been in my house many evenings. Her voice is so familiar, it is as if a family member is recounting the news stories she has covered and the impact they had on her life. She lets us see (hear) inside the life a a news journalist and the lasting effects a story has after the camera goes off.