The Bootle Boy : an untidy life in news

Name: The Bootle Boy : an untidy life in news
Brand: Scribe Publications

Scribe Publications

The Bootle Boyan untidy life in news\nAuthor(s): Les Hinton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom\nImprint: Scribe Publications\nISBN-13: 9781911617013, 978-1911617013\nSynopsis\nA brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.\nWhen 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. Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally leaves Murdochs employment in 2011, the business of news has been turned upside down, in a tumble of social and technological change.\nLes 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 Wa.