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Newsboy!: Adventures from a Life in Journalism

Autor Bill Fairbairn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 2016
Newsboy takes readers through a lifetime in printing and journalism. One can experience the sudden transition to todays computer assisted printing process after more than 500 years of printing from moveable wooden and metal typefaces in the Western world. Good luck helped the author touch skies over three continents. He found stepping stones across the swirling rivers of newsboy, printer and journalist. Now as editor emeritus of a suburban Ottawa community newspaper he has put it all together in his fifth book. If editor emeritus sounds highfalutin then consider that he also writes and photographs for his Riverview Park Review newspaper, delivers it to doorsteps as he did his Scottish hometown newspapers 73 years ago and he serves on the board of directors. His book takes readers through increased civil rights, his infantry soldier years, more equality still being contested, national independence, musical genius, loves labour lost and won and the more relevant media transformation. He personally experienced objective news judgment when he was aged 15 and he tries to judge news objectively today at age 81 on the Review. From his full-time experience on 15 daily and weekly newspapers, radio and a magazine in Britain, Africa and Canada, he tells what happened around newshounds of the old school pounding Underwood typewriter keys and himself writing interviews in Pitman shorthand. The author believes every journalism student would benefit from reading this book and that readers generally would enjoy it too.
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ISBN-13: 9781772160758
ISBN-10: 177216075X
Pagini: 355
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Baico Publishing Inc
Colecția Baico Publishing Inc

Recenzii

As a young lad William Fairbairn delivered newspapers on the streets of Hawick, Scotland. Now, over 70 years later, and a more interesting life behind him than most could ever have experienced, Bill shares his memoirs in his most recent book, Newsboy! Blending a vivid recollection of war history and remembrance, a fitting collection of verse, and background voices from his time as both printer and journalist, Bill frequently includes his wonderful sense of humour in the telling of a career that spanned not only seven decades, but across three of the seven continents. He uses the terms Good luck and Good fortune in the books introduction. And, while reading his life story, you may frequently ask yourself, What was he thinking? Bill always seemed to escape unscathed in what could have been quite a number of otherwise unfortunate endings. Providence watched over Bills shoulder in almost every one of the books fifty-six chapters. Lucky for us he has been able to share his myriad of experiences. Carole Moult, Riverview Park Review, June 2016