Red Top is a brilliant, informative, charming and funny guide to Journalism - whether you are interested in becoming a reporter, or just have an outside interest in the media.
The book is written by national journalist Bill Coles who has over 20 years experience in the business. It contains funny anecodotes and useful advice, making it a must read for media fans!
Red Top is published by Paperbooks on 1st August 2013.
Blurb:
Red Top has everything an aspiring reporter needs to know
about newspaper journalism. Written in easily digestible bite-size chapters,
the book is packed with extraordinary stories that explain what it’s really
like to be a front-line reporter.
Included is a full breakdown on the two key skills of how to
interview and how to dig up exclusives. Plus tips on dealing with the
mad-masters, the editors; writing a news story; and what the hell to do when a
libel writ comes thudding onto your desk.
Bill Coles has been a journalist for 25 years and was The
Sun’s New York Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Royal Reporter. He
has written for a huge variety of papers from The Wall Street Journal to the
Mail, the Scotsman and Prima Baby Magazine.
He has also covered some of the world’s biggest news stories
– as well as some of the most bizarre –
- Bill Clinton’s year-long sex scandal with his
intern Monica Lewinsky.
- The Boston murder trial of the British nanny
Louise Woodward (with five Sun front pages in a row).
- Buying $10,000 of lottery tickets in Miami
- A blind-date with Ivana Trump – in a stretch
limo.
- Becoming one of Company magazine’s Bachelors of
the Year.
- Flying from New York to the Inca trail in Peru –
to eat a giant guinea-pig.
- Posing naked for a Sun centrefold - with nothing
but a copy of The Sun to hide his modesty.
Lucy
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