Author : Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9814677337
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Book Synopsis The Reporter’s Notebook by : Dennis Bloodworth
Download or read book The Reporter’s Notebook written by Dennis Bloodworth and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 stories, and even some stories that couldn’t be told