Andrew Marr

My Trade (eBook, ePUB)

A Short History of British Journalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How 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?

The purpose of this insider's account is to provide an answer to all these questions and more. My Trade, Andrew Marr's brilliant, and brilliantly funny, book is a guide to those of us who read newspapers, or who listen to and watch news bulletins but want to know more. Andrew Marr tells the story of modern journalism through his own experience.

This is an extremely readable and utterly unique modern social history of British journalism, with all its odd glamour, smashed hopes and future possibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780330476195
• Artikelnr.: 39885124

Autorenporträt

Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow in 1959. He studied English at the University of Cambridge and has since enjoyed a long career in political journalism, working for the Scotsman, the Independent, the Daily Express and the Observer. From 2000 to 2005 he was the BBC's Political Editor. He has written and presented TV documentaries on history, science and politics, and presents the weekly Andrew Marr Show on Sunday mornings on BBC1 and Start the Week on Radio 4. He has written several books, including A History of 20th Century Britain and A History of Modern Britain. He lives in London with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
i: Acknowledgements Section
ii: Preface Unit
1: The Snobs and the Soaks Chapter
1: Who are Journalists? Chapter
2: Early Journalists Chapter
3: How Journalists First Became Powerful Chapter
4: The Rise of the Political Hack Chapter
5: The Overreachers Chapter
6: Literary Journalism Chapter
7: Getting In: Local Papers and the Rise of the Modern Reporter Chapter
8: When Fleet Street was Fleet Street Chapter
9: Intellectuals Chapter
10: Journalism's Private Class System Chapter
11: Mazer, Our Sala Unit
2: What Is News? Chapter
12: Hard News and Weak News Chapter
13: The Mystery of News Chapter
14: Early News Stories Chapter
15: Sensational, and Dull, Victorian News Chapter
16: The Old News Journalism Chapter
17: From Austerity to Shopping: News and the Modern World Chapter
18: Sex Stories: A Very Short History Chapter
19: Not Shagging but Shopping
New News Values? Chapter
20: News Now: Has it Changed? Unit
3: The Dirty Art of Political Journalism Chapter
21: Coming Home Chapter
22: The Daily Life of the Gallery Slaves Chapter
23: The Rise and Fall of the Straight Reporter Chapter
24: Bent and Twisted Journalism? Chapter
25: What is a Political Story? Chapter
26: An Incredibly Short History of the Lobby Chapter
27: What Political Journalists Do Chapter
28: Political Journalism Now: Are We Too Powerful? Unit
4: Lord Copper and His Children Chapter
29: Becoming an Editor Chapter
30: How Real Editors Edit Chapter
31: Enter Lord Copper, With a Heavy Tread Chapter
32: The First Mystery of the Proprietors Chapter
33: How to Read a Newspaper Unit
5: Into The Crowded Air Chapter
34: If the Face Fits . . . Chapter
35: The Clutter of Magic: How Broadcasters Do It Chapter
36: Whales and Elephants Chapter
37: From Stars to Soup: the ITN Revolution Chapter
38: 633 Squadron: Current Affairs and the Rise of the Reporter Chapter
39: The Mix Chapter
40: Interlude: from Home Service to Light Programme? Chapter
41: The Politics of Television Unit
6: Two Aristrocracies Chapter
42: One: Foreign Correspondents, and the Sin of Glamour Chapter
43: From Adventurers to Missionaries Chapter
44: The Natives Back Home: Selfish and Dim? Chapter
45: Good News Shock Chapter
46: Two: Columnists, from Pundits to Panderers Chapter
47: The Pundits Chapter
48: How to be a Columnist Section
iii: Epilogue Section
iv: Notes Index
v: Index