Volume 10, Number 4, 1999 |
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ContentsEditorial - See you on the moonBill Hagerty - The BJR Interview - Rupert Murdoch Michael Leapman - A decade of withered hopes Peter Hill - Newsmen on the net Michael Molloy - We could have stopped Maxwell Philip Cass - Tuning into the coconut wireless Judy McGregor - Spin and the Scottish devolution poll BOOK REVIEWSJoy Johnson on Alastair CampbellRobert Edwards on Old Fleet Street Cal McCrystal on The spy trade J. O. Baylen on Appeasement people |
Editorial - See you on the moon...In this, the 10th anniversary issue of British Journalism Review, we make no apologies for returning to an old familiar theme of this journal the future of the written word, or to be more specific, the future of the printed word. From which ever angle you care to approach the subject whether concerning the journalism of newspapers, magazines and journals; the writing of fiction and non-fiction; the authorship of great books on history, the arts, poetry; or, come to that, the romantic attachment all of us have to the ethos of the written word from whichever point of the compass you approach the issue there is the sign of danger ahead... [Read full article]
Bill Hagerty - The BJR Interview: Rupert MurdochWhen Rupert Murdoch looks in the mirror each morning he sees "someone a lot less powerful than his reputation". When he reads descriptions of himself as one of the most powerful men in the world, he thinks they are "just rubbish". The greatest media mogul of them all is, he says, an idealist who believes in God, is trying to improve the world and is convinced his editors and most of their staffs share his vision... [Read full article]
Peter Hill - Newsmen on the netI have just discovered I'm a CAR. They've been around in the States for over a decade, but have only recently been discovered in England. They're Computer-assisted Reporters or in plainer English, Online Journalists. In the USA they not only have a professional association IRE but a National Institute NICAR which holds seminars, or "computer boot camps" to teach old-fashioned, or "dead tree" journalists, the mysteries of the art... [Read full article]
Robert Edwards on Old Fleet StreetStudents of media studies at our myriad universities, for whom, let it be said right away, this book is essential reading, will find it is remarkably forthcoming on the subject of pubs... [Read full article]
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