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Author: Ian MacDougall Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857906135 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 993
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Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.
Author: Ian MacDougall Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857906135 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 993
Book Description
Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.
Author: Ian MacDougall Publisher: ISBN: 9781495654459 Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Languages : en Pages : 736
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In this fascinating collection, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local and some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest entrant began a career in the mid-1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as copy-boys running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. Virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job--and above all one full of human interest.
Author: Neal Ascherson Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0809088452 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
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Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up "Scotland.
Author: Neal Ascherson Publisher: ISBN: 9781862075245 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 326
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"Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Instead it weaves together a story of deep time - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth."
Author: David Hutchison Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443827576 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 305
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The essays in this collection explore centre/periphery relationships in journalism on a wide geographical canvas—the British Isles, Europe, North America and Australasia. The authors—academics and journalists—discuss a range of issues including: • Varying news agendas • News agendas and regional/national identities • News agendas and ownership patterns • The viability of regional/non-metropolitan media hubs • Media policy at national and non-national levels • Language and non-metropolitan journalism • Peripheries within peripheries The authors take full account of the technological and financial challenges facing journalism in the digital age.
Author: Ian MacDougall Publisher: Birlinn Ltd ISBN: 1788856430 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
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For almost 150 years until the late twentieth century, French Onion Johnnies (or 'Ingan Johnnies', as they were usually known in Scotland) were a familiar group of seasonal workers in towns and cities throughout Britain. In this book, nine Onion Johnnies (including one 'Jenny') who worked in Scotland at one time or another between the 1920s and the 1970s recount their lives. The recollections, recorded in interviews in Brittany and at Leith in 1999 by the Scottish Working People's History Trust, provide a fascinating insight into the lives and experience of those whose livelihood and way of life have vanished forever. It paints a poignant picture of the past and a way of life about nothing in any detail has ever been published before.
Author: Neal Ascherson Publisher: Granta Books ISBN: 1783780061 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. In 1995, Black Sea won critical praise in many languages and several literary prizes. Stone Voices is Ascherson's return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Ascherson instead weaves together a story of the deep past - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. Few writers in these islands have his ability to write so well about the natural context of history.
Author: Lenka Waschková Publisher: Masarykova univerzita ISBN: 802108751X Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 322
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Publikace se zaměřuje na téma lokálních médií, které je v oboru mediálních studií často opomíjené. Hlavními úhly pohledu jsou analýza lokálních publik a charakteristika vztahu lokálních médií a lokálních publik. Mezinárodní kolektiv devatenácti autorů mapuje specifika fungování lokálních médií a obecněji lokální komunikace v různých (především evropských) státech.
Author: Ian MacDougall
Author: Ian MacDougall
Author: Ian MacDougall
Author: Neal Ascherson
Author: Neal Ascherson
Author: Ian MacDougall
Author: David Hutchison
Author: Ian MacDougall
Author: Peter Hopkins
Author: Neal Ascherson
Author: Lenka Waschková