ASIN: B008L2V7PG
Publisher: John Dale Publishing Ltd
Pages: 236
INTRODUCTORY PRICE £2.99/$4.65/€3.75(USUALLY £4.99/$7.75/€6.35) Voted one of the 40 "best books about journalism" ever by Press Gazette readers. Finalist in the British Journalism Awards. Earlier this year, John Dale set out to discover how the first draft of history is written. He decided to explore the hidden reality of the ordinary mortals who are daily entrusted with this extraordinary responsibility. Put simply, were the hacks up to it? It was the same question being raised by judges, politicians and an increasingly concerned public and so, over one 24-hour period, Dale tracked the intersecting lives of hundreds of working journalists. The result is a global journey into love, war, fame, bombings, shame, sex, football, tears and Hollywood – in other words, an average news day. Dale encountered editors, reporters, paparazzi, war correspondents, feature writers, columnists, agony ...
