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Book SynopsisAn accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain’s leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the most impact on the world today from the fall of the Berlin Wall to stepping onto the Moon.

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Book SynopsisThis year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners include outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad.Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Adam MossAcknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine EditorsA Betrayal, by Hannah Dreier, ProPublica, copublished with New York, Finalist—Public InterestAmerican Hustler, by Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, Finalist—ReportingA Kingdom from Dust, by Mark Arax, The California Sunday Magazine, Finalist— Feature WritingShallow Graves and An Interview with Ben Taub by Eric Sullivan, by Ben Taub, The New Yorker, Winner—ReportingThe Genocide the U.S. Didn’t See Coming, by Nahal Toosi, Politico, Finalist—ReportingWe Made It. We Depend on It. We’re Drowning in It. Plastic, by Laura Parker, National Geographic, Finalist— Public InterestThe First Porn President and I Believe Her and The Abandoned World of 1982, by Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Finalist—Columns and CommentaryMisjudged, by Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, Finalist—Essays and CriticismThe National Geographic Twins and the Falsehood of Our Post-Racial Future and The Profound Presence of Doria Ragland and The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing Will Be Remembered as a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment, by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, Winner—Columns and ComentaryThis Place Is Crazy, by John J. Lennon, Esquire, Finalist—Feature WritingGetting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind, by Robert Wright, The Marshall Project with Vice, Finalist—Columns and CommentaryGetting Out, by Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times Magazine, Winner—Essays and CriticismHow to Be an Artist, by Jerry Saltz, New York, Winner—Leisure InterestsThe Art of Dying Well, by Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B.Koehler, 5280, Winner—Personal ServiceTaming the Lionfish, by Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian, Finalist—Feature WritingThe Breakup Museum, by Leslie Jamison, Virginia Quarterly Review, Finalist—Essays and CriticismSkinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and A Conversation with McSweeney’s Claire Boyle and Karolina Waclawiak, by The ASME Award for Fiction, McSweeney’s, Winner—ASME Award for FictionPermissionsList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisDrawing on innovations in the business of journalism, this book offers a comprehensive guide to using the human-centred design methods of product management to serve readers and bolster digital success in news organizations.An Introduction to News Product Management sets out how product thinking should be used in news organizations and practiced in accordance with journalistic ethics and customs. Beginning by looking at the history and theory behind the profession, this book builds a foundational understanding of what product management is and why news is a unique product. In the second unit, the author discusses how the human-centred design philosophy of product management aligns with the mission and ethics of journalism, and how that influences the view of audiences and frames strategies. The third unit of the book focuses on the daily use of product management in news organizations, providing students with a guide to its use in researching, prioritizing, and buildinTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionWhat Is Product Management?1. The News Product Manager2. A Brief History of Product Management3. Theories of Product Management4. Theories of InnovationProduct Management in News5. The Business of Content6. Managing News Innovation7. The Mission of News ProductMaking News Products8. Product Is Research9. Product Is Prioritization10. Product Is Building11. Product Is LearningGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisHarvey Tyson has followed the dictates of his itch' to write for over 70 years. He is probably best remembered for his byline in many respected newspapers, in SA and abroad, when he was a full-time news journalist for 44 years particularly as editor-in-chief of the Johannesburg Star for 16 years in the days of apartheid South Africa.Table of ContentsPart 1 – The nature of the beast: 1. Setting the scene; 2. Press mogul pisses on the people; 3. Profile of a journalist; 4. Household names in the writing trade; 5. Mischievous misprints; 6. Dangerous misprints; 7. Best writing: fiction or non-fiction?; 8. Reports from a green and pleasant land; Part 2 – Telling it like it is: 9. A fearful spectacle, defying censorship; 10. Journalists’ eyewitness accounts; 11. The Dead Hand; 12. The Berlin Wall; 13. In the fog: Wat ye Tyler and other Stirring Tales; 14. Africa’s greatest war; 15. Master spy and global murders; 16. ‘The bravest editor in the cemetery’; 17. The Times vs. ‘Jack the Ripper’ Part 3 – Past and the future of the press: 18. Pulitzer and the birth of ‘popular’ newspapers; 19. The Press Barons who wanted to be Emperors; 20. US Champions of press freedom; 21. The man who saved South Africa’s ‘black’ press; 22. The price of true and constant independence; 23. Beware the disguised enemy within; 24. Murdoch the mighty media manager ... Mmmm; 25. It depends how you use ‘Independence’; 26. When ‘independence’ becomes a fake; 27. How the Past could affect the world’s Future; 28. Online investigators bring down the President; 29. In search of a place to talk freely; 30. Conflict and the Press; 31. The end of mainstream newspapers; 32. The future of journalism; Index; Acknowledgements.

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Book Synopsis''Flak jackets are dreadful things. Sure, they have a purpose, and if one ever stopped a bullet or piece of shrapnel from spearing into my vital organs, I would kiss it, hang it up, and frame it. But that hasn''t happened, yet.''For almost ten years Peter Stefanovic was Channel Nine''s foreign correspondent in Europe, the US, Africa and the Middle East. During that time he witnessed more than his fair share of death and destruction, and carried the burden of those images - all while putting his own personal safety very much in the firing line.From flak jackets to tuxedos. From the funerals of world leaders and icons, to war zones and natural disasters. This is a thrilling account of a life lived on camera, delivering the news wherever it happens, whatever the risk.Trade Reviewarticulate and compassionate ... a brave and resourceful Australian journalist with rare experience and insight - BMA Magazine an honest account of death and destruction from the frontline - Sunday Herald Sun Nothing is off-limits ... as he reveals the mental and emotional toll of 10 years in a bulletproof vest. - Woman's Day

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Book Synopsis''The utterly inspirational story behind one of our country''s most superb journalists. To have played even the tiniest of roles in helping to ignite Lisa''s early fire for journalism gives me more joy than she will ever know.'' LISA WILKINSONLisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things done and making things happen. As a child growing up in country Queensland, she dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that, but it also meant confronting the worst that humanity can bring. Three decades as a journalist witnessing tragedy had a cost. And an ever-escalating fear of flying threatened to rob her of her ability to work at all.For that young girl from small-town Kilkivan, who had to push herself to keep going, push herself to conquer fear, push herself to tell important stories, finally came the realisation that sometimes all we really need is what we already have. And she shows us that we are all

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Book Synopsis''The utterly inspirational story behind one of our country''s most superb journalists. To have played even the tiniest of roles in helping to ignite Lisa''s early fire for journalism gives me more joy than she will ever know.'' LISA WILKINSONLisa Millar has spent her whole life showing up, getting things done and making things happen. As a child growing up in country Queensland, she dreamed of a big life. Working as a foreign correspondent gave her that, but italso meant confronting the worst that humanity can bring. Three decades as a journalist witnessing tragedy had a cost. And an ever-escalating fear of flying threatened to rob her of her ability to work at all.For that young girl from small-town Kilkivan, who had to push herself to keep going, push herself to conquer fear, push herself to tell important stories, finally came the realisation that sometimes all we really need is what wealready have. And she shows us that we ar

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War.Trade ReviewThis book makes a valuable, empirically rich contribution to studies of the media and the state in the United Kingdom. It illustrates the sheer effort put into manipulating editors, journalists, broadcasters, politicians, and academics by the British state after 1945... He demonstrates with skill and conviction just how important setting the agenda was to the British state in this period, and it is a point that has continued significance for understanding relations between the state and the media since 1945. -- Thomas P. O'Malley H-Net John Jenks's excellent monograph shows, with considerable nuance, the extension of the state's projection of British interests and values into peacetime! Jenks's great contribution is the painstaking documentation, in an eloquent and concise telling, of an important story. He makes accessible previously unexamined archival sources (in both Britain and the US) and sets these neatly alongside brief but effective samplings of British postwar media! an important study that will be of great interest to historians of British politics, the Cold War and 20th-century international relations, and to media scholars. -- Mark Hampton, Lingnan University European Journal of Communication Patriotism, imperialism, and structural trends in journalism inform Jenks's compelling application of Gramscian theory to the Cold War's early years. Conditioned to an 'almost reflexive deference to government-defined security concerns' by their second world war experience, patriotic British journalists accepted 'without a murmur' the continuance of the wartime D-Notice Committee and Official Secrets Act. -- Michael E. Chapman Journal of Contemporary History This book makes a valuable, empirically rich contribution to studies of the media and the state in the United Kingdom. It illustrates the sheer effort put into manipulating editors, journalists, broadcasters, politicians, and academics by the British state after 1945... He demonstrates with skill and conviction just how important setting the agenda was to the British state in this period, and it is a point that has continued significance for understanding relations between the state and the media since 1945. John Jenks's excellent monograph shows, with considerable nuance, the extension of the state's projection of British interests and values into peacetime! Jenks's great contribution is the painstaking documentation, in an eloquent and concise telling, of an important story. He makes accessible previously unexamined archival sources (in both Britain and the US) and sets these neatly alongside brief but effective samplings of British postwar media! an important study that will be of great interest to historians of British politics, the Cold War and 20th-century international relations, and to media scholars. Patriotism, imperialism, and structural trends in journalism inform Jenks's compelling application of Gramscian theory to the Cold War's early years. Conditioned to an 'almost reflexive deference to government-defined security concerns' by their second world war experience, patriotic British journalists accepted 'without a murmur' the continuance of the wartime D-Notice Committee and Official Secrets Act.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Propaganda, media and hegemony: the British heritage; 2. Media, Propaganda, Consensus and the Soviet Union, 1941-48; 3. Discipline and Consensus: The British News Media; 4. The IRD: Inside the Knowledge Factory; 5. IRD Distribution Patterns and Media Operations; 6. Friends and Allies; 7. Making Peace a Fighting Word; 8. From the Inside Out: Defectors and the Gulag; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe most extensive and detailed analysis of the reporting of the Spanish Civil War ever undertaken.Trade ReviewBRITISH NEWS MEDIA AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE David Deacon, 2008 Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press Viii 196 pp., ISBN 978-0-7486-2748-6 (hbk GBP60.00) The public representation of the Spanish Civil War has, unsurprisingly, received considerable attention from scholars in recent years. The conflict attracted, after all, an impressive array of talented writers, journalists and photographers, from Ernest Hemmingway and George Orwell to Martha Gellhorn and Robert Capa; it prompted numerous artistic responses, including Picasso's masterpiece Guernica. It seemed, both at the time and in retrospect, a struggle with huge significance not just for the future of Spain, but for the future of the world: a battle of rival ideologies which could destabilize the balance of power in Europe and pave the way for a global war. Despite this ongoing interest, there has not been a comprehensive survey of the British media's coverage of the events in Spain. David Deacon's new volume fills this gap with great authority. It focuses not just on the content of the journalism but the conditions under which it was produced and the editorial pressures that shaped its presentation. It demonstrates that the British press was more uncertain and confused in its response to the civil war than has often been assumed; several newspapers shifted their positions significantly, and, in particular, reservations about Franco grew over time. Deacon suggests that, on balance, the Republican government won the media war, but ultimately 'the scale of its victory was insufficient' (171): it was not able to stir British opinion into demanding firmer action in its support, and hobbled by the Non-Intervention pact, it eventually succumbed to military defeat. The book's structure enables the reader to follow the complex journey that the 'news from Spain' took on its way to breakfast tables around Britain. The first substantive chapter compares the initially 'rigid and aggressive news management' of the Nationalists with the more 'permissive' approach of the Republicans (40); the greater freedom allowed to journalists, coupled with a more advanced communications infrastructure, encouraged more detailed and often more sympathetic coverage of Republican activities. If killings in Republican zones in the early months of the war were over-reported, the relative mobility of journalists enabled The Times' George Steer, among others, to be in place to witness the devastation at Guernica and to identify the perpetrators coverage which did incalculable damage to the Nationalists' reputation. Two further chapters on the experiences of journalists on the front lines reinforce the point that the views of the Anglo-American press contingent were noticeably inclined towards the Republican cause although if there was a widespread desire to support the defence of democracy, the vast majority of correspondents were deeply suspicious of the more revolutionary groupings working alongside the moderate government forces. Deacon also shows how female reporters, lacking the status of their male counterparts, were generally left to cover the impact of the warfare on ordinary citizens; he notes that their accounts were often given 'considerable prominence' in British newspapers (69), but he does not provide sufficient evidence to Media History, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2010 ISSN 1368-8804 print/1469-9729 online/10/020253 13 DOI: 10.1080/13688801003656355 Downloaded By: [Loughborough University] At: 13:50 8 April 2010 sustain his argument that this eyewitness testimony of civilian resolution in the facing of bombardment served to weaken the 'air fear' gripping Europe in the 1930s. But if journalists in Spain tended to favour the Republican position, there were significant countervailing pressures in Britain. In a chapter which draws extensively on the National Archives and the editorial archives of The Times, the Manchester Guardian and the BBC, Deacon demonstrates the ways in which the government largely through the News Department of the Foreign Office sought to mould media debate and maintain support for the policy of Non-Intervention. The British National Government, the author shows, had a 'barely concealed political and ideological antipathy to the Republic' (110), and consistently sought to avoid antagonizing the Fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. An interesting case study of Frederick Voight, the Diplomatic Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, indicates the effectiveness of the Foreign Office's 'management' of the press. Voight's analysis of the civil war he spent relatively little time in Spain itself was uncomfortably similar to that of the British government's, even though he worked for a paper overtly backing the Republicans. Deacon builds a persuasive case that Voight's divergence from his paper's line was due to his integration into the Foreign Office's diplomatic lobby system. The BBC was placed under even more pressure: as early as March 1937, John Reith, the Director-General, recorded that the Foreign Office 'would be glad' if the BBC became 'sufficiently obviously pro-Insurgent to convince Franco' that it, and by extension the government, were 'not Anti-Franco' (96). Reith had few qualms about adopting this line. Deacon also suggests that commercial interests may have encouraged some proprietors to be receptive to the government's desire to 'cool and constrain' media debate about the international situation (110), although decisive evidence for this is, as ever, hard to find. It is not easy to disentangle genuinely held political views from commercial motives: what is clear, however, is the difficulty, in this climate of opinion, of sustaining the case for decisive British intervention on the side of the Republicans. The most impressive and longest chapter is devoted to the actual content of the press coverage of the civil war. Based on a survey of over 10,000 news and commentary items taken from three sample months, this analysis is a model of precision. Graphs, tables and maps are provided to summarize changing levels of coverage, the location of journalists, the sources used in reporting, the labels employed to describe the two sides, and, most importantly of all, the interpretive categories and editorial policies of each paper. Deacon provides a wealth of valuable information that will be useful to anyone interested in foreign affairs journalism: it is difficult to imagine being provided with a fuller or more nuanced picture of the British press's response to the conflict. Amidst this complexity, some clear patterns can be identified, most notably that over time 'Nationalist sins gained prominence over Republican failings and, by the end, even those inclined to oppose the Republic ... demonstrated some compassion for Republican suffering and admiration for their resistance' (146). By the end of the war, there were few voices praising Franco with any enthusiasm. After this analytical tour de force, the final substantive chapter on 'other avenues of Spanish news' namely, newsreels, photography and the weekly press feels rather lightweight, based as it is on secondary literature, but it does at least ensure a rounded coverage which incorporates all of the main media forms of the 1930s. 254 BOOK REVIEWS Downloaded By: [Loughborough University] At: 13:50 8 April 2010 Inevitably, there are some minor quibbles. The author waits until the brief concluding chapter to introduce a model of a 'propaganda state' to describe the activities of the British government: 'The Propaganda State of the 1930s,' he writes, 'recognised the need to legitimise its policies but felt little need to legitimise itself' (178). This is a suggestive avenue to explore, but it would have been more helpful to signpost it earlier to allow the reader the opportunity to assess its worth. Despite the flurry of tables and statistics summarizing the press coverage, moreover, the reader does not get much of a flavour of the actual language and tone of the news reporting and commentary beyond the headlines. Overall, though, this is a very significant addition to the literature on interwar journalism, and it stands as a shining example of methodological rigour in the field of media history. Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield # 2010, Adrian Bingham -- Adrian Bingham Media History 'This book is a deeply researched media history shaped by the eye of a media sociologist. In a lucid and thoughtful account, David Deacon has explored the continuities between past and present. The media coverage of the Spanish civil war still holds lessons for analysing communications in our own war-torn times.' -- Professor Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow 'David Deacon is to be congratulated for this splendid study of British news media reporting of the Spanish Civil War, which combines the historian's concern with detailed analysis of primary and archival sources with the broader sweep of journalism theory, to create a fascinating, scholarly but controversial mix. British News Media and the Spanish Civil War is destined to become a Classic within the literature of journalism studies. It establishes a demanding new benchmark of excellence for the flurry of recent studies of war reporting in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflict regions. Deacon's eloquent but forensic discussion of the attitudes and experiences of foreign correspondents, the contribution of women correspondents and photojournalists, the propaganda activities of the Republican and nationalist protagonists, as well as the news management activities of the British Government, explains and unravels the various factors which shaped the essentially complex and partisan character of British press coverage of the Spanish Civil War. Deacon's suggestion that journalism may assist historical understanding but that its key concern is 'to influence social and political events', along with his challenge to contemporary ideas concerning the 'mediatization' of politics and conflict, makes this is a highly controversial as well as deeply scholarly book.' -- Bob Franklin, Cardiff University This book provides an extensive and detailed analysis of the reporting of the conflict, examining the personalities, routines, pressures and structures that shaped news coverage of the war in Britain as it unfolded. The book combines a comprehensive overview of the existing literature on the role of the news media in the conflict, with a vast amount of new evidence, gleaned from the author's detailed investigations in a range of official and media archives. Viewfinder In this brilliant, concise and original study of British and American news media's reporting of the Spanish civil war, David Deacon reveals the extraordinarily rich tapestry of journalistic endeavour which Orwell's quip obscures. Deacon explores the subject thematically and with wonderful imaginative flair. -- Richard Lance Keeble, University of Lincoln European Journal of Communication David Deaon has written a book that is well-researched, clear, provocative and stimulating... a valuable contribution to the burgeoning historiogrpahy of Britain and the Spanish Civil War as well as an insightful media history that throws light on both the contemporary state of British media and its modern development. -- Lewis H. Mates Contemporary British History ...This is a very significant addition to the literature on interwar journalism, and it stands as a shining example of methodological rigour in the field of media history. -- Adrian Bingham Media History As well as presenting detailed analysis of British newspapers, Deacon's work samples the full spectrum of British media, effectively blending hard-edged media analysis with detailed cultural history! Deacon's book convincingly presents the 1930s as central to the formation of distinctly modern political practices and sensibilities. -- Ben Harker, University of Salford Socialist History BRITISH NEWS MEDIA AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE David Deacon, 2008 Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press Viii 196 pp., ISBN 978-0-7486-2748-6 (hbk GBP60.00) The public representation of the Spanish Civil War has, unsurprisingly, received considerable attention from scholars in recent years. The conflict attracted, after all, an impressive array of talented writers, journalists and photographers, from Ernest Hemmingway and George Orwell to Martha Gellhorn and Robert Capa; it prompted numerous artistic responses, including Picasso's masterpiece Guernica. It seemed, both at the time and in retrospect, a struggle with huge significance not just for the future of Spain, but for the future of the world: a battle of rival ideologies which could destabilize the balance of power in Europe and pave the way for a global war. Despite this ongoing interest, there has not been a comprehensive survey of the British media's coverage of the events in Spain. David Deacon's new volume fills this gap with great authority. It focuses not just on the content of the journalism but the conditions under which it was produced and the editorial pressures that shaped its presentation. It demonstrates that the British press was more uncertain and confused in its response to the civil war than has often been assumed; several newspapers shifted their positions significantly, and, in particular, reservations about Franco grew over time. Deacon suggests that, on balance, the Republican government won the media war, but ultimately 'the scale of its victory was insufficient' (171): it was not able to stir British opinion into demanding firmer action in its support, and hobbled by the Non-Intervention pact, it eventually succumbed to military defeat. The book's structure enables the reader to follow the complex journey that the 'news from Spain' took on its way to breakfast tables around Britain. The first substantive chapter compares the initially 'rigid and aggressive news management' of the Nationalists with the more 'permissive' approach of the Republicans (40); the greater freedom allowed to journalists, coupled with a more advanced communications infrastructure, encouraged more detailed and often more sympathetic coverage of Republican activities. If killings in Republican zones in the early months of the war were over-reported, the relative mobility of journalists enabled The Times' George Steer, among others, to be in place to witness the devastation at Guernica and to identify the perpetrators coverage which did incalculable damage to the Nationalists' reputation. Two further chapters on the experiences of journalists on the front lines reinforce the point that the views of the Anglo-American press contingent were noticeably inclined towards the Republican cause although if there was a widespread desire to support the defence of democracy, the vast majority of correspondents were deeply suspicious of the more revolutionary groupings working alongside the moderate government forces. Deacon also shows how female reporters, lacking the status of their male counterparts, were generally left to cover the impact of the warfare on ordinary citizens; he notes that their accounts were often given 'considerable prominence' in British newspapers (69), but he does not provide sufficient evidence to Media History, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2010 ISSN 1368-8804 print/1469-9729 online/10/020253 13 DOI: 10.1080/13688801003656355 Downloaded By: [Loughborough University] At: 13:50 8 April 2010 sustain his argument that this eyewitness testimony of civilian resolution in the facing of bombardment served to weaken the 'air fear' gripping Europe in the 1930s. But if journalists in Spain tended to favour the Republican position, there were significant countervailing pressures in Britain. In a chapter which draws extensively on the National Archives and the editorial archives of The Times, the Manchester Guardian and the BBC, Deacon demonstrates the ways in which the government largely through the News Department of the Foreign Office sought to mould media debate and maintain support for the policy of Non-Intervention. The British National Government, the author shows, had a 'barely concealed political and ideological antipathy to the Republic' (110), and consistently sought to avoid antagonizing the Fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. An interesting case study of Frederick Voight, the Diplomatic Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, indicates the effectiveness of the Foreign Office's 'management' of the press. Voight's analysis of the civil war he spent relatively little time in Spain itself was uncomfortably similar to that of the British government's, even though he worked for a paper overtly backing the Republicans. Deacon builds a persuasive case that Voight's divergence from his paper's line was due to his integration into the Foreign Office's diplomatic lobby system. The BBC was placed under even more pressure: as early as March 1937, John Reith, the Director-General, recorded that the Foreign Office 'would be glad' if the BBC became 'sufficiently obviously pro-Insurgent to convince Franco' that it, and by extension the government, were 'not Anti-Franco' (96). Reith had few qualms about adopting this line. Deacon also suggests that commercial interests may have encouraged some proprietors to be receptive to the government's desire to 'cool and constrain' media debate about the international situation (110), although decisive evidence for this is, as ever, hard to find. It is not easy to disentangle genuinely held political views from commercial motives: what is clear, however, is the difficulty, in this climate of opinion, of sustaining the case for decisive British intervention on the side of the Republicans. The most impressive and longest chapter is devoted to the actual content of the press coverage of the civil war. Based on a survey of over 10,000 news and commentary items taken from three sample months, this analysis is a model of precision. Graphs, tables and maps are provided to summarize changing levels of coverage, the location of journalists, the sources used in reporting, the labels employed to describe the two sides, and, most importantly of all, the interpretive categories and editorial policies of each paper. Deacon provides a wealth of valuable information that will be useful to anyone interested in foreign affairs journalism: it is difficult to imagine being provided with a fuller or more nuanced picture of the British press's response to the conflict. Amidst this complexity, some clear patterns can be identified, most notably that over time 'Nationalist sins gained prominence over Republican failings and, by the end, even those inclined to oppose the Republic ... demonstrated some compassion for Republican suffering and admiration for their resistance' (146). By the end of the war, there were few voices praising Franco with any enthusiasm. After this analytical tour de force, the final substantive chapter on 'other avenues of Spanish news' namely, newsreels, photography and the weekly press feels rather lightweight, based as it is on secondary literature, but it does at least ensure a rounded coverage which incorporates all of the main media forms of the 1930s. 254 BOOK REVIEWS Downloaded By: [Loughborough University] At: 13:50 8 April 2010 Inevitably, there are some minor quibbles. The author waits until the brief concluding chapter to introduce a model of a 'propaganda state' to describe the activities of the British government: 'The Propaganda State of the 1930s,' he writes, 'recognised the need to legitimise its policies but felt little need to legitimise itself' (178). This is a suggestive avenue to explore, but it would have been more helpful to signpost it earlier to allow the reader the opportunity to assess its worth. Despite the flurry of tables and statistics summarizing the press coverage, moreover, the reader does not get much of a flavour of the actual language and tone of the news reporting and commentary beyond the headlines. Overall, though, this is a very significant addition to the literature on interwar journalism, and it stands as a shining example of methodological rigour in the field of media history. Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield # 2010, Adrian Bingham 'This book is a deeply researched media history shaped by the eye of a media sociologist. In a lucid and thoughtful account, David Deacon has explored the continuities between past and present. The media coverage of the Spanish civil war still holds lessons for analysing communications in our own war-torn times.' 'David Deacon is to be congratulated for this splendid study of British news media reporting of the Spanish Civil War, which combines the historian's concern with detailed analysis of primary and archival sources with the broader sweep of journalism theory, to create a fascinating, scholarly but controversial mix. British News Media and the Spanish Civil War is destined to become a Classic within the literature of journalism studies. It establishes a demanding new benchmark of excellence for the flurry of recent studies of war reporting in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflict regions. Deacon's eloquent but forensic discussion of the attitudes and experiences of foreign correspondents, the contribution of women correspondents and photojournalists, the propaganda activities of the Republican and nationalist protagonists, as well as the news management activities of the British Government, explains and unravels the various factors which shaped the essentially complex and partisan character of British press coverage of the Spanish Civil War. Deacon's suggestion that journalism may assist historical understanding but that its key concern is 'to influence social and political events', along with his challenge to contemporary ideas concerning the 'mediatization' of politics and conflict, makes this is a highly controversial as well as deeply scholarly book.' This book provides an extensive and detailed analysis of the reporting of the conflict, examining the personalities, routines, pressures and structures that shaped news coverage of the war in Britain as it unfolded. The book combines a comprehensive overview of the existing literature on the role of the news media in the conflict, with a vast amount of new evidence, gleaned from the author's detailed investigations in a range of official and media archives. In this brilliant, concise and original study of British and American news media's reporting of the Spanish civil war, David Deacon reveals the extraordinarily rich tapestry of journalistic endeavour which Orwell's quip obscures. Deacon explores the subject thematically and with wonderful imaginative flair. David Deaon has written a book that is well-researched, clear, provocative and stimulating... a valuable contribution to the burgeoning historiogrpahy of Britain and the Spanish Civil War as well as an insightful media history that throws light on both the contemporary state of British media and its modern development. ...This is a very significant addition to the literature on interwar journalism, and it stands as a shining example of methodological rigour in the field of media history. As well as presenting detailed analysis of British newspapers, Deacon's work samples the full spectrum of British media, effectively blending hard-edged media analysis with detailed cultural history! Deacon's book convincingly presents the 1930s as central to the formation of distinctly modern political practices and sensibilities.Table of Contents1. An emblematic editorial; 2. The Ground Rules: Republican and Nationalist International News Management; 3. Eye-Witnesses and 'I' witnesses: Journalists in Spain; 4. 'The Aliveness of Speaking Faces': Women Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War; 5. Rear-guard Reactions: Governmental and Commercial influence on Spanish Civil War Reporting in Britain; 6. Ominous and Indifferent? British Press Coverage of the Spanish Civil War; 7. Other Avenues of Spanish News; 8. Journalists, Spain and the Propaganda State.

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Book SynopsisWe both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem. In this book, leading journalism studies scholar Brian McNair explores how journalists have been represented through the prism of one of our key cultural forms, cinema. Drawing on the history of cinema since the 1930s, and with a focus on the period 1997-2008, McNair explores how journalists have been portrayed in film, and what these images tell us about the role of the journalist in liberal democratic societies. Separate chapters are devoted to the subject of female journalists in film, foreign correspondents, investigative reporters and other categories of news maker who have featured regularly in cinema. The book also discusses the representation of public relations professionals in film.Illustrated throughout and written in an accessible and lively style suitable for academic and lay readers alike, Journalists in Film will be essential reading for students and teachers of journalism, and for all those concerned about the role of the journalist in contemporary society, not least journalists themselves. An appendix contains mini-essays on every film about journalism released in the cinema between 1997 and 2008.Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWS; Introduction; 1. Journalists in Film: An Overview; PART II: JOURNALISTS IN FILM; 2. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940); 3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1940); 4. Ace In the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951); 5. Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1984); 6. Welcome To Sarajevo (Michael Winterbottom, 1996); 7. The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander MacKendrick, 1957); 8. The Accidental Hero (Stephen Frears, 1996); 9. Power (Sydney Lumet, 1986); 10. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1996); 11. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003); 12. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005); 13. Capote (Bennet Miller, 2005); Conclusion; Filmography.

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Book SynopsisThe first book to recount the extraordinary story of Fleet Street’s Murder Gang

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu to suggest a model of cultural ''zones'' where complex issues of power are negotiated through both conscious and unconscious strategies of legitimation and assumption by consumers and producers. He also critically engages with cultural theory as well as traditional scholarship in history, art history, and literature, combining a political economic approach to the cTrade Review'... King has taken on the task of correcting this historiographic imbalance by thoroughly excavating some of the more obscure purlieus of mid-nineteenth century Grub Street, and nearly every page of the book bears witness to the assiduity and ingenuity of his primary research... a detailed and illuminating contribution to the expanding list of books dealing with various aspects of Victorian print culture published as part of Ashgate’s impressive 'The Nineteenth Century' series.' SHARP News '... remarkable study. Its comprehensiveness and interdisciplinarity are likely to make it attractive to scholars in such diverse fields as media history, library science, cultural studies, journalism, and literary studies. King makes a convincing case for the London Journal as a key text in the history of the mass media, and provides a variety of interpretative tools that scholars are likely to find useful as they continue to explore the vast field of Victorian journalism.' The Library 'Andrew King has succeeded in writing a well-informed and thought-provoking study that breaks new ground, particularly in the way it balances theoretical insights with more traditional periodical historiography.' Victorian Periodicals Review ’Andrew King's detailed examination of the production and reception of the London Journal during the mid-nineteenth century offers an excellent model for analyses of literary periodicals...’ Script and PrintTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Periodical Discourse: Periodical questions; Periodical titles; or, 'The London Journal' as a signifier. Part 2 Periodical Production; 1845-9. Theoretical issues; or, genre, title, network, space; Cultural numerology; or, circulation, demographics, debits and credits; 1849-57. Moving from the miscellany; or, J.F. Smith and after; 1857-62. When is a periodical not itself? or, Mark Lemon and his successors; 1862-83. The secret of success; or, American women and British men; Part 3 Periodical Gender; or, the Metastases of the Reader: 1845-55. Gender and the implied reader; or, the re-gendering of news; 1863. Lady Audley's secret zone; or, is subversion subversive?; 1868-83. Dress, address and the vote; or, the gender of performance; 1883: The revenge of the reader; or, Zola out and in; Appendix; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a timely examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. Media Organizations and Convergence: Case Studies of Media Convergence Pioneers considers the many definitions of convergence and explores the changes in communication technologies. Author Gracie L. Lawson-Borders provides a brief history of media segments and their evolutions as they adapt to emerging technologies, media conglomeration, and the competitive and global changes that have occurred in the industry. She also examines the theoretical implications of technology and convergence in the operations and practices of media organizations.The case studies included here profile three media convergence pioneers--Tribune Company in Chicago, Media General in Richmond, and Belo Corporation in Dallas--that have incorporated convergence into their journalistic practices. Lawson-Borders considers the social, cultural, and political implications of convergence, and presents issues and concerns for the future of convergence in the media industry.As a snapshot of media convergence at the current stage in its evolution, this book offers important insights into the business of media at a time of dramatic change. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in media management, mass media, and related areas of the media industry.Table of ContentsContents: Preface. Part I: Media Organizations and Convergence. Introduction: The Many Faces of Convergence. Traditional Media and Business Practices. Theoretical Implications. Part II: Convergence in Action. Tribune Company: A Convergence Pioneer Since the 1900s. Media General: A Temple to Convergence--The News Center in Tampa, Florida. Belo Corporation: Market Dominance in Dallas. Part III: Conclusion. Social Capital: Implications for Convergence. The Future of Convergence.

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Book SynopsisHarvey Tyson has been actively reporting, analysing and writing for 70 years, on subjects ranging from news, politics and socio-economics to book reviews, history and travel.Table of ContentsPart 1 – Looking Both Ways 1800–1900: 1. The boy who ran away; 2. When your best friend is killed; 3. When silence does not pay; 4. Joseph Wood’s anger at the cross Rhodes; 5. Battles fought in blood and ink; 6. The war of “34”; 7. The past – and the best road ahead; 8. A hundred years of headlines; Part 2 – Too Early for The News 1920–1945: 9. Confessions of a desperate newsman; 10. Dancing through the Roaring Twenties; 11. When our mother left home; 12. Growing up in a gwenya tree; 13. “The happiest days of your life”; 14. The war? What war?; 15. Sexual and other explanations; Part 3 – Learning The Ropes 1945–1950s: 16. Green monster seen in the “Big Hole”; 17. Accusing a man of the wrong crime; 18. When I broke the rules of ethical reporting; 19. Inside the newsroom on deadline; 20. A baby’s laugh o’er the general’s coffin; 21. The three Malans; 22. “Knock twice and ask for Jesus”; 23. Crashes and shambles – and Europe in ruins; Part 4 – From Our Correspondent 1950–1990: 24. Romance, legionnaires and some tall tails; 25. Murder and hangings; 26. Some beautiful people; 27. “If X, Y, Z?”; 28. A cabinet minister admits his ignorance; 29. Liars, and a snake in the grass; 30. The daily “rush” – hitched to a star; 31. June ‘76 Soweto protests get world attention; 32. The other side of the story; Part 5 – Bad Times, Good Times1987–2017: 33. Security Police and memories to haunt us all; 34. Apartheid’s curse; 35. The “miraculous” nineties; 36. Memories and cherries; 37. Dreams of Academe in the cherry fields; 38. A pantheon – to honour the past and alert the future; 39. Choosing champions to stand beside Mandela.

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Book Synopsis2020 was a period of groundbreaking social and political upheaval, in combination with a colossal epidemiological crisisand it urgently redefined the working conditions of photojournalists. The historic 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the devastating Covid-19 pandemic presented unique challenges for photojournalism, forcing photographers into a terrain defined by new ethical, technological, and safety (emotional and physical) concerns, as well as innovative attacks on press freedom. Through a series of interviewswith top photographers who covered 2020's biggest crises, as well as key photo editors who grappled with these unprecedented obstacles inside the newsroomThrough the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter unpacks the industry's most critical debates as it sheds light on the experiences and thought processes of the visual journalists themselves. Importantly, this book encourages readers to consider the efforts behind the camera lens: the challenges and rTrade ReviewThis powerful book focuses on the crises of 2020—but its implications go well beyond that one year. Through the Lens asks us to rethink the ways we view the world through images and to understand that unconscious sociopolitical patterns can be influenced by visuals. This important book is essential reading for anyone interested in how history and culture are shaped by the camera. SHEILA PREE BRIGHT, award-winning photog-rapher and author of #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests Through the Lens is a nuanced and sophisticated exploration of the role of photography in the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter, two historic moments that have raised fundamental questions about photojournalism ethics, identity, and the impact of technological shifts on the field and norms of visual documentation. Dr. Walsh weaves compelling interviews with erudite analysis to contextualize the powerful photos that tell the stories of these transformational events. DR. COURTNEY RADSCH, former Advocacy Director with the Committee to Protect Journalists Through the Lens provides a rare look into the world of photojournalism, giving extraordinary insight into the experiences of those who photographed 2020’s major upheavals. It also forces us to think about the social, political, and historical dynamics of our time and the vital role that photos can play in contemporary conversations. Put simply, it is a masterful overview of the role of photography today. BARBARA DAVIDSON, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer "There have been profound critics and philosophers about photography in the past, and recently the voice I find most interesting is that of Lauren Walsh… Walsh has a particular talent of bringing voices of photographers together in conversation, to help us understand not aperture or the rule of thirds, but significantly more important things like dignity and context and purpose. Her new book, Through The Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, is a book of morals and beliefs and values that form the core of who we are, our work and why we do it." –Frames Magazine"We may be living in an image-saturated world, but the practice of photojournalism including the decisions that photo editors make and the experiences of photographers in the field rarely receive attention. Lauren Walsh’s new book, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, aims to change that, delivering unique insights into the personal and professional challenges photojournalists faced in covering these two seismic global events." –Head On Interactional Magazine "[W]hat happens when the stories being covered force photojournalists into new areas with new ethical and physical safety concerns combined with outright attacks on the press themselves? Dr. Lauren Walsh… looks at both the ethical and safety minded challenges that photojournalists have faced covering both the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement in her new book Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter." – Blind Magazine"Richly illustrated with evocative photos, this book reminds us that photojournalism doesn’t simply mirror the world; it has the power to change it." -- YAHOO NEWS"For a field still dominated by white men, 'Through the Lens' brings a refreshing diversity of voices to a set of questions around privacy and consent, the role of captions, graphic imagery and censorship."Colin Dickey, LOS ANGELES TIMES"Visual journalism holds the power to attest, to interrogate, to educate. In the current conflicts around the world, journalists and photographers relay stories to their audiences, yet few may stop to consider how these images and news features are created and what roles they can play in future. In her new book THROUGH THE LENS: THE PANDEMIC AND BLACK LIVES MATTER, Lauren Walsh conducts interviews with leading photographers and photo editors in visual journalism during 2020’s biggest crises, and discussed the challenges they faced in this time, as well as how photojournalism continues to evolve in the present." -- Photomonitor"In her excellent new book, Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, NYU professor Lauren Walsh attempts to understand the historic year through the vantage point of the photojournalists that were on the frontlines capturing a multitude of unprecedented events. Walsh records the emotional toll that came with "covering death, destruction, and endemic racism." --VICE WORLD NEWSTable of Contents1. Introduction A note on the interviews Interviews with US-based photojournalists 2. Nina Berman 3. Patience Zalanga 4. Spencer Platt Interviews with photojournalists outside the US 5. Rodrigo Abd 6. Aly Song Interviews with Directors of Photography 7. Danese Kenon 8. MaryAnne Golon Afterword Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ideals of technological progress and mass consumerism shaped the print cultures of countries across the globe. Magazines in Europe, the USA, Latin America, and Asia inflected a shared internationalism and technological optimism. But there were equally powerful countervailing influences, of patriotic or insurgent nationalism, and of traditionalism, that promoted cultural differentiation. In their editorials, images, and advertisements magazines embodied the tensions between these domestic imperatives and the forces of global modernity.Magazines and Modern Identities explores how these tensions played out in the magazine cultures of ten different countries, describing how publications drew on, resisted, and informed the ideals and visual forms of global modernism. Chapters take in the magazines of Australia, Europe and North America, as well as China, The Soviet Turkic states, and Mexico. With contributions from leading internatTrade ReviewThree shifts mark Magazines and Modern Identities in expanding periodical studies: from “small” to “big” embedded in key historical turns; from textual to visual and contextual readings; and from Europe- and US-centred studies to cultural displacements. With interdisciplinary focus that defies fixed definitions, these thorough chapters ask: whose modernity and identity was it, and why? * Evanghelia Stead, Professor of Comparative Literature and Print Culture, UVSQ Paris-Saclay, and Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France *Working the nexus between innovations in illustrated magazines and modern identity formation around the globe, this book strides forcefully into the most vital questions in modern periodical studies. How did illustrated magazines enable readers to envision themselves as cosmopolitans or nationalists, as modern people or traditionalists? More profoundly, how do media set the horizons for articulating a self under the pressures of modern history? These chapters engage these questions with vigour, ingenuity, and impressive detail. * Patrick Collier, Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Humanities, Ball State University, USA; Author of Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide (Bloomsbury, 2021) *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘The Rapid Rhythm of Modern Life’, Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Tim Satterthwaite (University of Brighton, UK) Part I: Modern Times: Magazines in the USA at the turn of the 20th century 1. “A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies”?: The Arena magazine, alternative modernities and US radical print culture (1889-1909), Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet (Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, France) 2. “The Young Man of To-Day is not the Young Man of Fifty Years Ago”: The changing image of United States men in the cover art of popular periodicals, 1880–1920, Richard Junger (Western Michigan University, USA) Part II: The Age of Extremes: European magazines of the interwar decades 3. Left-wing Answers to the Bourgeois Illustrated Press in the German Reich, Konrad Dussel (University of Mannheim, Germany) 4. Spearheading the Iconic Turn: German Illustrated Magazines in the Interwar Period, Patrick Rössler (University of Erfurt, Germany) 5. Acrobatics of the Printed Page: The Cosmopolitanism of Rizzoli’s Periodicals, Maria Antonella Pelizzari (Hunter College, CUNY, USA) 6. Visual Modernism and its Others in VU, Laura Truxa (EHESS, Paris, France) 7. ‘The Greater Britain of Fascism’: Politics, Propaganda and Photography in Action (1936-40), Emma West (University of Birmingham, UK) Part III: Transnational Modernities: Culture and lifestyle magazines in Canada and Australia 8. Memories and Promises: Australian Modernism and National Identities in Home During the 1930s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) and Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University, Australia) 9. Seeing the World and One’s Place Within It: Australian Quality Magazines and the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s, Susann Liebich (Univ of Heidelberg) and Victoria Kuttainen (James Cook University, Australia) 10. To be or Not to be Modern: The paradox of Modernity in the French-Canadian Magazine La Revue moderne During the 1930s, Adrien Rannaud (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada) 11. Magazine Digest, Canadian Invader?, Jaleen Grove (Rhode Island School of Design, USA) Part IV: Future States: Chinese, Soviet Turkic, and Mexican magazines 12. Global Magazine Culture and Modern Chinese Identities, Michel Hockx (University of Notre Dame, France) and Liying Sun (University of Iowa, USA) 13. Photographic Portraits of Leaders of the 1911 Revolution: The Promise of Historical Rupture in the Chinese Republican Press, Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany) 14. Publishing the Nation: Periodicals and Nation-Building in Soviet Turkic Communities, 1921-1937 Michael Erdman (British Library, UK) 15. Female Identities and Translocal Networks in Mexican Folkways, Claudia Cedeño Báez (University of Tübingen, Germany) Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis  , David Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years, and anchored the BBC's live coverage of historic national and world events. KEEP TALKING is David's wry look at his own extraordinary career, and the people, events and controversies he has encountered along the way. As a broadcaster for the BBC, David had an obligation to appear a neutral observer. Now finally 'off the leash' he writes without inhibition but with his characteristic wit, clarity and insight, about monarchy, politics, and the state of Britain. His book is enlivened with honest accounts of broadcasting from the inside - from commentating on Diana's funeral to anchoring ten successive General Election night results programmes. The faux pas, the secrets of the craft and what he was really thinking are shared for the first time. He reveals his own battles with politicians; queries the purposTrade Review'Thoughtful, very readable and nostalgia-inducing memoirs... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' * Andrew Billen, The Times *Pithy and amusing... There is something else that Dimbleby has that all the best journalists do: a sense of mischief running in tandem with a dislike of hierarchy. It's the twinkle in the eye of his cover photo, and it pervades the memoir. * Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisI''ve Got Mail is the brand new book from Jeff Stelling, the Sunday Times bestselling author and host of Sky Sports'' iconic football show Soccer Saturday. Reproducing a selection of correspondence he has received down the years, Stelling tells some intriguing stories around his experiences in broadcasting and football. This charming book is by turns warm and funny, moving and poignant, and invariably underpinned by a deeply rooted love of football and people. It arrived while I was playing football. I remember my mum running towards me, dressed in pinny and slippers, waving a piece of flesh coloured paper, gripped in her hand, the print all in slightly faded block capitals. But the message from my new employer was clear and urgent.BERNARD GENT UNWELL. GO TO LEEDS IMMEDIATELY. COVER LEEDS UNITED V MIDDLESBROUGHIt was the first and last telegram I ever received. It was a message that probably changed the course of my life. It was thTrade ReviewAn entertaining read, especially for those who like to share their Saturday afternoons with Jeff and the gang * The Sun *

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