The Universal Journalist - Third Edition - Softcover

Randall, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745326552 ISBN 13: 9780745326559

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2007

-- New updated edition of the world's leading handbook on journalism -- 'Easily the best introduction to being a reporter I have come across. It provides solid, no-nonsense advice on the skills needed to do the job. . . . Best of all, it has been written

Review:

Easily the best introduction to being a reporter I have come across. It provides solid, no-nonsense advice on the skills needed to do the job. ... Best of all, it has been written by a true newsman and his enthusiasm for the task in hand is evident on every page. --Paul Jones, course leader, Press Association Editorial Training

A pleasure to read. Anyone who wants to be a journalist should go through it again, and again, and again. --Val Williams, Press Division, The Thomson Foundation

'An essential, down-to-earth guide to what the job is all about.' --Press Wise Bulletin

About the Author:

David Randall is a British journalist and newspaper consultant. Formerly assistant editor of the Observer (London), where his news pages twice won awards, he has written, edited and lectured on newspapers in Britain, Africa and Eastern Europe. Since August 2000 he has been the Home Editor of the Independent newspaper in London.

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0745326552
• ISBN 13: 9780745326559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256