A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?
At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream Media, here is a definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
A society that isn't sure what's true can't function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We're barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more?
At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream Media, here is a definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
Alan Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief of Guardian News & Media from
1995 to 2015. He launched the Guardian in the US and Australia as
well as building a website which today attracts more than 100
million unique browsers a month. The paper's coverage of
phone-hacking led to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and
ethics. Guardian US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service
for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is
the author of Play It Again and Breaking News. He lives in London
and Oxford, where he is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs
the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
@arusbridger | arusbridger.com
'Given that Rusbridger is, in my opinion, one of the two great
newspaper editors of the past half-century (the other is the late
Harry Evans), anything he writes about the press is going to be
worth reading . . . Many of the mini-essays are useful
distillations of his experience in, and knowledge of, the industry'
- Guardian
'If you are interested in the mechanics of the news, especially
related to the times we are living in, going through and set to go
through, then this book is a must' - NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE, BBC
'[Rusbridger] was one of the stand-out editors of his generation
and it shows in his book: an astute and agreeably random canter
through the imperfect world of journalism in Britain and America .
. . erudite' - Financial Times
'An agreeable and very worthwhile book. It invites you to think and
question. It is informative and entertaining' - Scotsman
'Smart, relevant and punchy . . . a powerful light in the darkness'
- Evening Standard
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