Storytellers. Questions, Answers And The Craft Of Journalism

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Scribner
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 344 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream of Australian journalists about their craft how (and why) they bring us the stories that inform our lives. Leigh Sales is one of Australias most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABCs flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, those usually asking the the journalists. In ten sections from News Reporting to Editing, via Investigative, Commentary and of course Interviewing Sales takes us on a tour of the profession, letting the leaders in their field talk direct to us about how they get their leads, survive in war zones, write a profile, tell a story with pictures, and keep the show on the road. A whos-who of Australian journalism including Lisa Millar, Kate McClymont, Hedley Thomas, Trent Dalton, Benjamin Law, Tracy Grimshaw, Richard Fidler, David Speers, Stan Grant, Niki Savva, Waleed Aly, Annabel Crabb, Karl Stefanovic and Mia Freedman talk candidly about their greatest lessons and their trade secrets. A fascinating insight into a vital and much-misunderstood profession, Storytellers is a book for anyone whos ever wanted to be a journalist, or even just wondered how the news gets made.

ISBN: 9781761106965