Mystery novelist R.G. Belsky, whose latest big-city newsroom thriller is Below the Fold, on a bench at 96th Street and Third Avenue on the Upper East Side.
Mystery novelist R.G. Belsky, whose latest big-city newsroom thriller is "Below the Fold," on a bench at 96th Street and Third Avenue on the Upper East Side. ( Photo: Jordan Hunter)

R.G. Belsky decamped from the high-stakes world of big media to write suspense novels offering a behind-the-scenes look at – you guessed it – the high-stakes world of big media.

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Oct 16 2019 | 02:50 PM
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It was 1989 when Dick Belsky was fired as metro editor of the New York Post. I know: I walked him out the door that day. Then in 2005, he left his post as Daily News managing editor. I had changed newspapers, too, there was a tradition to uphold, so again, I walked him out. That’s by way of saying he’s...