My Trade: A Short History of British JournalismHow do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage to look in the mirror after the way they sometimes behave? |
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User Review - jontseng - LibraryThingAn intelligent mixture of history, analysis and practice. Marr's experience as a national broadsheet editor (however inconsequential) shines through in his writing. Read full review
Contents
THE SNOBS AND THE SOAKS | 1 |
How Journalists First Became Powerful | 13 |
WHAT IS NEWS? | 50 |
Sensational and Dull Victorian News | 72 |
THE DIRTY ART OF POLITICAL JOURNALISM | 117 |
LORD COPPER AND HIS CHILDREN | 189 |
INTO THE CROWDED | 256 |
TWO ARISTOCRACIES | 325 |
How to be a Columnist | 369 |
Epilogue | 377 |