 | The Universal Journalist - 2nd Edition by David Randall
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £5.00 The best book on reporting. Forget all the media-studies garbage out there. This tells you how to do the job, and reveals some tricks of the trade.
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 | Waterhouse on Newspaper Style by Keith Waterhouse
How to write for newspapers.
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 | Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £5.99 Politics and the English Language is the essay here that all aspiring reporters must read. But the others are wonderful, too.
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 | All the President's Men: 20th Anniversary Ed by Carl Bernstein
Buy used from: £0.01 Why you should dig, dig, dig.
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 | Teeline Fast by Ms Ann Dix
Buy new: £10.18 / Used from: £3.23 A purely practical book.
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 | The New Journalism (Picador Books) by T. Wolfe
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.47 Few people can write like the authors in this book, and few get the chance. But this collection shows what can happen when the skills of the novelist are combined with those of the journalist.
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 | The Faber Book of Pop
Buy used from: £0.40 A collection of wonderful magazine articles that show the kind of social commentary about youth culture that has been eclipsed by showbiz trash.
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 | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.58 One of those books that shows what can be achived. The amount of work that must have gone into this book is incredible. And it shows that financial journalism can be interesting.
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 | The Liar: Fall of Jonathan Aitken by Luke Harding
Buy used from: £0.01 Never forget that some people lie to journalists, and for each of them, many more mislead.
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 | The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £1.75 Throw the sub-GCSE level philosophy in the bin and read this if you are interested in journalistic ethics. It's much more thought-provoking.
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 | McNae's Essential Law for Journalists by Tom Welsh
Buy used from: £0.16 There are two reasons to read this. First, you don't want to get sued. But also, how are you going to excel if you don't understand the terrain you work in.
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| Palm Pilot 5/5x by Al McKinnon
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £74.95 I don't really think you should read this manual. But you must get a hand-held computer. It allows you to organise your contacts by subject as well as name. Stop buying books and get a palm-top.
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