My Paper Chase
True Stories of Vanished Times
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co./Hachette Book Group, 2009.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First eBook edition.
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In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate.
Contents:
Vanished times. Grains of truth ; Getting up steam ; First, know your enemy ; Hot metal ; How I won the war ; Non nobis solum ; The sting of Disraeli's gibe ; Stop press ; Why aren't their women wearing our frocks? ; Adventures in the land of opportunity ; From Delhi to Darlington ; Just causes -- Scoop, scandal, and strife. The Rolls-Royce of Fleet Street ; The third man ; Children on our conscience ; Space barons ; Death in Cairo ; Divided loyalties ; Showdowns ; My Newfoundland.
Subjects:
Evans, Harold, 1928-2020.
Sunday times (London, England : 1931)
Guardian (Manchester, England)
Newspaper editors -- England -- Biography.
Journalists -- England -- Biography.
Investigative reporting -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Newspaper publishing -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Evans, Harold, 1928-2020.
Sunday times (London, England : 1931)
Guardian (Manchester, England)
Newspaper editors -- England -- Biography.
Journalists -- England -- Biography.
Investigative reporting -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Newspaper publishing -- England -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780316092074 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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