Press escape / Shaun Carney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carney, Shaun, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--Australia--Biography.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Getting away was always a driving ambition for Shaun Carney—from an outer-suburban house in the 60s and 70s, from a family with a secret: a father with a double life and a borrowed name.Journalism gave Shaun that escape, to another life, to becoming a different person. For 34 years he took every opportunity it offered, flourished and knew success even while dealing with the personal struggle of his own child battling cancer. But a greater sense of freedom came when he forgave the people he'd wanted to flee and, unexpectedly, let go of the life that he'd worked so hard to create. In this beautifully crafted memoir one of Australia's leading political journalists writes movingly about discovering the one story that really matters.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

1 Three Calls

2 Sparkalarkalarkaling

3 English-Irish-German

4 Give Us a Song, Jim

5 News of the Week

6 Juice!

7 The Early Days of Ink

8 Beyond the Ken of the Human Mind

9 I Want To Be a Reporter

10 What's in a Name?

11 A Better Run

12 Rolling Deadlines

13 Disneyland for Journalists

14 Petechiae

15 Everything Sounded Grey

16 No Gloss

17 No Worries, Bud

18 Families

19 The Great Letting Go

20 You Can't Put Brains in a Statue

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522870039

0522870031