The reporter's notebook / Dennis Bloodworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloodworth, Dennis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bloodworth, Dennis--Anecdotes.

Reporters and reporting--Anecdotes.

Press and politics--Southeast Asia--Humor.

China--Politics and government--1949-1976--Humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight...It's all in a day's work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer. For those who have always wondered how the news gets into the papers, here's the story behind the storie

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Story line; 2. Goa or bust; 3. The paper chase; 4. Travelling light; 5. Follow that story; 6. One of our files is missing; 7. His excellency and others; 8. Officials and 'unofficials'; 9. The press and the politician; 10. Man bites watchdog; 11. Publish and be damned - sometimes; 12. Covering conferences; 13. Follow-my-leader; 14. Breaking ranks; 15. Ladies and gentlemen; 16. The special relationship; 17. Knowing the form; 18. Face to face; 19. Now it can be told; 20. Trees of knowledge; 21. Ignorance is never bliss; 22. Catching it live

23. The bare facts and the naked truth24. Through a glass darkly; 25. The painted screen; 26. Caught short; 27. The eye of the beholder; 28. The lead and the cilché; 29. The Thing from another world; 30. Mugshot of a reporter; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789814677332

9814677337