Growing up in the roughest neighborhoods throughout the East Bay and Northern California, Melissa McCarty watched as so many she knew succumbed to drugs, gangs and violence. To survive, she and her brother learned to be tough and streetwise-but deep inside Melissa had much greater dreams. With unrelenting ambition she worked her way out of town, graduated from college and became a television newscaster. After climbing the ladder from city to city and market to market, she finally attained her ultimate dream: being a top newscaster on a major television station in Los Angeles. But this achievement didn't come without a price. At all hours of the day and night Melissa covered the worst of the news: tragic accidents, HORRIFIC crimes, devastating fires. She exposed criminals, put herself in danger, and always sought the truth...about everything except her own past. It haunted her in the form of her brother Mikey, the hero of her youth, whose undiagnosed mental illness drove him ever deeper into a mire of poverty, addiction, arrest, bad relationships, and violence from which Melissa could not help him escape. In News Girls Don't Cry, Melissa McCarty confronts the memory-demons of her past, exploring how they hardened her and kept her from becoming a more loving, empathic, and fully-functioning person in love and life-and how she turned it all around. An inspiring story of overcoming adversity, grabbing second chances and becoming happy and authentic.