Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital. Stephen B. Shepard. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. 304 pp. $28 hbk.Stephen B. Shepard was once my boss. In 1993 to 1994, I worked as a correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine, where Shepard was editor in chief, and I can remember him telling me that I needed to write with conflict in mind while telling a story at the same time.Shepard's autobiography, Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital, has plenty of conflict, and it's a great story because he has accomplished so much. But it's more than just an autobiography. For the past seven years, Shepard has been dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which was started from scratch and is trying to be at the forefront of dramatic changes in journalism education. Shepard walks us through how the school was created and gives us a behind-the-scenes view of the major decisions. Any journalism and mass communication program administrator who has been struggling to add more multimedia and Internet training to his or her program would benefit from reading Shepard's recount.There's more to this book, however. Shepard neatly separates the book into three distinct sections: his boyhood and early journalism career, his successful twenty-year run at the helm of BusinessWeek, and then his tenure in academia. All are interesting, and all provide lessons to any journalism student coping with the industry's dramatic changes.Born in New York in 1939, Shepard recounts his childhood and the struggles brought on by his family. His mother told him not to be too ambitious, and his father was content to stay in the same accounting job for decades. Although he was attracted to journalism in high school, Shepard earned a bachelor's and master's degree in engineering and thought that would be his career path. But after working for a short time at an engineering firm in New Jersey, he applied for a job at McGraw-Hill's Product Engineering and worked there until he got a job at BusinessWeek. His forte was in covering technical stories, such as automobile safety, where he could use his engineering training.Shepard later moved to an editing position at Newsweek, where he oversaw business coverage and some general news and was hired in a failed attempt to resuscitate Saturday Review. In 1984, he returned to BusinessWeek as the heir apparent to retiring editor Lewis Young. The next twenty years would be the best in the weekly magazine's history, as Shepard led it to five general excellence wins in the National Magazine Awards category and numerous other awards. But he also exposes and discusses the warts at the magazine during his time at the helm, expressing misgivings about stories he wishes it had been more aggressive in covering or flat out missed. …