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Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court
Bruce Guthrie
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Hardcover. Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. This is Guthrie's explosive account of almost forty years in the news business. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: BM; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 668.
Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. His CV boasts editorships of The Age, The Sunday Age and the Herald Sun, magazines Who Weekly and The Weekend Australian, even a high level stint at America's celeb-news bible, People. Then, just as he claimed one of the industry's most glittering prizes, he fell foul of Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen, who promptly dispensed with his services. What would any ... Read more
Bruce Guthrie survived tuberculosis, Melbourne's gritty northern suburbs and a boss who twice tried to sack him in his first six months in newspapers, to become a foreign correspondent and then one of Australia's feistiest and most controversial editors. His CV boasts editorships of The Age, The Sunday Age and the Herald Sun, magazines Who Weekly and The Weekend Australian, even a high level stint at America's celeb-news bible, People. Then, just as he claimed one of the industry's most glittering prizes, he fell foul of Rupert Murdoch and his henchmen, who promptly dispensed with his services. What would any ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522858167
SKU
V9780522858167
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About Bruce Guthrie
Bruce Guthrie began his media career as a copyboy at The Herald in Melbourne in 1971. After completing a cadetship, he worked in a variety of reporting roles for the paper until 1985, when he was appointed the Herald and Weekly Times’ Los Angeles correspondent. In 1987 he returned to Australia and became deputy editor of The ... Read more
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