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Flat Earth News (book)
''Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media'' is a 2008 non-fiction book by Nick Davies in which he investigating malpractice on Fleet Street. The ''Flat Earth News'' is considered to be the sister book to Davies' 2014 publication, ''Hack attack: the inside story of how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch.'' Background In ''Flat Earth News'', Davies, who has been a journalist since the 1970s, undertook an analysis of daily news media in the United Kingdom from the 1980s to 2008. From funding raised through the Rowntree Foundation, Davies commissioned a Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies research project led by Justin Lewis on the United Kingdom's national news coverage The researchers examined the origins of 2,000 stories that had been carried by ''The Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'' , ''The Guardian'' , and ''The Independent'', and in some cases−''The Daily Mail''. The report fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Davies
Nicholas Davies (born 28 March 1953) is an award-winning British investigative journalist, writer, and documentary maker. Davies has written extensively as a freelancer, as well as for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'', and been named Reporter of the Year, Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. Davies has made documentaries for ITV's ''World in Action'' and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism, including ''Flat Earth News'', which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and around the globe. As a reporter for ''The Guardian'', Davies was responsible for uncovering the ''News of the World'' phone hacking scandal, including the July 2011 revelations of hacking into the mobile phone voicemail of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. Career in journalism Davies gained a PPE degree from Oxford University in 1974, and started his journalism career in 1976, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Riddell
Mary Carmella Riddell (born 19 April 1952) is a British journalist. She has been a newspaper columnist for ''The Daily Telegraph'', and served as the newspaper's assistant editor. Early life Riddell was born in Grimsby and attended Boston High School, a girls' grammar school. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. She grew up in a Catholic family with sisters Sheila and Maddi and brother John. Her sister is Professor Sheila Riddell (born 2 December 1953), an academic at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID), who is married to Professor Ken Sorbie, Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University since 1992. Career From 2001 to 2008, she was a columnist for ''The Observer''. She has also contributed to the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''New Statesman''. Earlier in her career she was deputy editor of the ''Today'' newspaper, and women's and assistant editor of the ''Daily Mirr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About The Media
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books By Nick Davies
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
