The Bootle boy : an untidy life in news
Hinton, Les2018
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When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black ink, fag ash, and hot metal. When Les finally leaves Murdoch's employment in 2011, the business of news has been turned upside down, in a tumble of social and technological change. Les Hinton has been present at and noiselessly directed several key scenes in that tale of revolutionary transformation, as employee and later head of Murdoch companies in newspapers, magazines, and television, on three continents over five decades, in Wapping and Wall Street, Australia and California. Born amid the rubble of the blitzed docklands of Bootle, and schooled by an itinerant Army childhood, he came to the centre from the periphery, just as Murdoch did. There, with a gang of like-minded outsiders, he set about redrawing the map of the media.
Main title:
The Bootle boy : an untidy life in news / Les Hinton.
Author:
Hinton, Les, author
Imprint:
London : Scribe, 2018.
Collation:
445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781911617013 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
070.92B HINB
Language:
English
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BRN:
1879939
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