Breaking News The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
- 1 Aug 2019
- 9781786890962
- £10.99
- 464 pp
- 129×198mm
- 20 Sep 2018
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In a few words
A powerful and profound study of the news – how we read it, who controls it and why it matters – from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger
In a few words
A powerful and profound study of the news – how we read it, who controls it and why it matters – from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger
In a few words
A powerful and profound study of the news – how we read it, who controls it and why it matters – from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger
[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant Breaking News is essential - and entertaining - reading
Sir Harold Evans
ObserverI particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger's Breaking News – in places it's as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism
Henry Marsh
New Statesman, Best Books of 2018[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant Breaking News is essential - and entertaining - reading
Sir Harold Evans
ObserverI particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger's Breaking News – in places it's as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism
Henry Marsh
New Statesman, Best Books of 2018[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant Breaking News is essential - and entertaining - reading
Sir Harold Evans
ObserverI particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger's Breaking News – in places it's as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism
Henry Marsh
New Statesman, Best Books of 2018More about
the book
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does all this mean for democracy? And what will the future hold?
Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian at a time of unprecedented digital disruption; and his experience of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, Alan Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever.
More about
the book
We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg. In Breaking News Alan Rusbridger offers an open, personal and agenda-setting account of how we arrived at the news world of today.
The President of the United States regularly lies to the public and accuses anyone who criticisms him of being fake. Politicians openly rubbish the views of ‘so called experts’, dissemble and mislead. So how do we hold those in power accountable? Fox News, Breitbart Media and the Murdoch papers peddle views not news, pushing politically-motivated agendas. So, where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does it mean for democracy? And what will the future hold?
Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian and his experience of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, including the Edward Snowden revelations, phone-hacking, wikileaks and the Keep in the Ground campaign, Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever.
More about
the book
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, verifiable sources of news and information? What does all this mean for democracy? And what will the future hold?
Reflecting on his twenty years as editor of the Guardian at a time of unprecedented digital disruption; and his experience of breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time, Alan Rusbridger answers these questions and offers a stirring defence of why quality journalism matters now more than ever.
Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential
Steve Coogan
Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones
Tom Stoppard
Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the YearThe book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence
Ian Jack
GuardianIt was my good luck – and the world’s – that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian’s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism – indeed, our democracies depend on it
Edward Snowden
Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential
Steve Coogan
Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones
Tom Stoppard
Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the YearThe book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence
Ian Jack
GuardianIt was my good luck – and the world’s – that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian’s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism – indeed, our democracies depend on it
Edward Snowden
Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential
Steve Coogan
Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones
Tom Stoppard
Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the YearThe book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence
Ian Jack
GuardianIt was my good luck – and the world’s – that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian’s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism – indeed, our democracies depend on it
Edward Snowden
