News and How to Use It - by Alan Rusbridger (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>An A</b>-<b>Z guide on how we stay informed in the era of fake news, from former <i>Guardian </i>Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Nothing in life works without facts. <p/>A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates. <p/>People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of 'information chaos'. <p/><i>News: And How to Use It</i> is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user's guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Breaking News</i>: </b>[Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant <i>Breaking News</i> is essential - and entertaining - reading--SIR HAROLD EVANS "Observer"<br><br>A fascinating book and an important one-- "Scotsman"<br><br>Alan Rusbridger is one of the most important journalists of his generation . . . this book needs to be read-- "Independent"<br><br>Engaging . . . We love a good newspaper yarn, and Rusbridger provides a dandy-- "Financial Times"<br><br>I particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger's <i>Breaking News</i> - in places it's as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism--HENRY MARSH "New Statesman, Best Books of 2018"<br><br>The book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence--IAN JACK "Guardian"<br><br>The portrait of Rusbridger that emerges is that of the rarest of newsroom species - someone with genuine bona fides as a journalist and an unassailable commitment to the profession's enduring values, who also possesses the curiosity, nimbleness of mind and openness to change necessary to navigate the relentless, shape-shifting challenges that lie ahead for media companies today. The cascading crises afflicting journalism are now, rightly, understood to be threats to American democracy. It is hardly an overstatement, then, to say that the health of our society depends, in part, on future Rusbridgers emerging to take the reins of our news organisations-- "New Yorker"<br><br>Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones--TOM STOPPARD "Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the Year"<br><br>It was my good luck - and the world's - that Alan Rusbridger was the <i>Guardian</i>'s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism - indeed, our democracies depend on it--EDWARD SNOWDEN<br><br>Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential--STEVE COOGAN<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Alan Rusbridger </b>was Editor-in-Chief of <i>Guardian</i> News & Media from 1995 to 2015. He launched the <i>Guardian</i> 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. <i>Guardian</i> US won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its leading global coverage of the Snowden revelations. He is the author of <i>Play It Again </i>and <i>Breaking News. </i>He lives in London and Oxford, where he is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall and chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. <br>@arusbridger arusbridger.com</p>
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