A Short Walk Down Fleet Street: From Beaverbrook to Boycott
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0715631438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the 1980s, with deregulation of the industry and the waning of the power of the print unions, this state of affairs collapsed and the national newspaper offices scattered. In A Short Walk Down Fleet Street he draws upon his great wealth of experience of politics and journalism to write in his own inimitable style about these and many other characters. Yet to most people, Fleet Street will forever be identified with the newspaper industry. 'Fleet Street', shorthand for the British national newspaper industry, was the hub of the industry where most newspapers had not only their offices, but their printing presses as well. His proprietors have included some of the most legendary names in the field including Lord Beaverbrook and Tony O'Reilly. He has known most Prime Ministers from Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair. But the true hero of the book, brought vividly back to life within these pages, is Old Fleet Street itself, which lasted until the 1980s and is now, as he puts it, as remote as the Byzantine Empire.. In over forty years of journalism, Alan Watkins has written political columns for many of Britain’s key newspapers
LeaR said Outstanding read. This was the book that decided my career path for me when I was 18 years of age. It's the story of "real journalism" and how much fun it can be. Young journalists offer lose sight of the immense privi, lege it is to be in the job they are in, but this book is a wonderful education of any aspiring your reporter or even somebody who once thought they might venture down that path in life.For those thinking of working in the press, I'd also recommend Winning PulitzersAndrew Marr's My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism and Penguin Book of Journalism by Stephen
Alan Watkins was born in 1933 and educated at Cambridge. He has also published The Liberal Dilemma, Brief Lives, Sportswriter’s Eye, A Slight Case of Libel, A Conservative Coup, The Road to Number 10 and, jointly, The Making of the Prime Minister 1970.
‘A hilarious read.’ --Daily Telegraph