Surviving Bully Culture: A Career Spent Navigating Workplace Bullying and a Guide for Healing Hardcover – April 28, 2026

“Anyone who’s had a bad job will find Regal’s saga fascinating. [Surviving Bully Culture is] an appalling—and often hilarious—account of terrible behavior in an infernally high-pressure industry.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"You don’t have to get beaten up to get beaten down."For decades, Andrew Regal climbed the high-stakes ladder of television news, working at Court TV, MSNBC, CNBC, and ultimately serving as Global Head of Video at The Wall Street Journal. From the outside, it looked like success. On the inside, it was something else entirely.During the most acute periods of his workplace trauma, Regal was left deflated, isolated, anxious, sleepless, ashamed and at times, contemplating suicide. The bullying he endured wasn’t loud or obvious. It was subtle. Strategic. Legal. And devastating.Yet Surviving Bully Culture is not a book of despair.Readers will meet a narrator who is humorous, empathetic, resilient, and deeply human. A leader who was victimized not because he was weak but because he was loyal, productive, and cared deeply about his work. Ironically, these are the very qualities that so often make people targets.Until now, workplace bullying has lived behind closed office doors, rarely named, poorly understood, and frequently dismissed as “tough management” or “personality conflict.” Targets are left alone, questioning themselves, and too often forced out of jobs they loved.This book changes that.Surviving Bully Culture offers something many victims have never been given:Language. Validation. And a path forward.Blending lived experience with expert insight, Regal draws on conversations with:Management and leadership thought leadersPsychiatrists and psychologistsLegal scholars and workplace expertsTogether, they examine:Why bullying thrives at workWhy it is still largely legalWho is most often targeted—and whyHow repeated, targeted behavior causes lasting harmWhat individuals and organizations can do now to stop itThis powerful coming-of-age journey takes readers through:The unforgettable characters Regal metThe bold-faced names he encounteredThe women he lovedThe celebrated news stories he helped bring to lifeThe mean-spirited bullies he survivedAnd the personal failures he fought to overcomeUltimately, Surviving Bully Culture is a rallying cry for change.It challenges leaders to confront how power is abused.It gives targets permission to stop blaming themselves.And it invites all of us to imagine and build a future of work rooted in dignity, authenticity, and self-compassion.If you have ever felt silenced, diminished, or pushed out at work, this book is for you. Read more