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My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times (2009)

de Harold Evans

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In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate.
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Evans writes like a true storyteller... and the descriptions of the newsrooms he worked in back in the day of hot metal are fascinating. This is a read you just can't put down! ( )
  LibraryGoddesses | Feb 15, 2010 |
Really excellent book by Harold Evans, who grew up in a working class family in northern England. Class lines were much harsher then, and it was rare for someone of his class to have much opportunity to get ahead. He began working on newspapers in his teens, and managed to get into college in Durham and get his degree. From there his rise in newspapers was steady until becoming editor of the Sunday Times for 14 years. He left due to disagreements with Rupert Murdoch who bought the Times papers. He and his second wife, Tina Brown, who has been editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, came to the US where he worked for U.S News and World Report, Conde Nast Traveler, and Random House.

He's led an interesting life. Truly, though, the pleasure in this book is hearing from an intelligent, knowledgeable man who has always been passionate about his work, and clear-eyed about the difficulties in getting the best news to the world. He discusses in some depth certain stories he was involved with that illustrate the glories and problems in the newspaper business. For example, he followed for years the cases of the thalidomide babies in Britain, and he pushed hard to keep the story covered and see that the government didn't simply ignore their needs. For intrigue, he shows how his team followed the story of the traitor Kim Philby and revealed as much as they could about it.

As a native of the U.S. South it was interesting to hear his experience of the South during his first trip to the U.S. in 1956. He saw the horrors of the racism, and found it hard to reconcile with how nice white Southerners were to him even while expressing Neanderthalic opinions on race.

Excellent book. ( )
  reannon | Nov 22, 2009 |
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Not only is it a loving homage to the joys of old-fashioned British newspapering, but it has also allowed Mr. Evans to tell at proper length stories that should now be taught as classics in journalism schools worldwide.
 
One can think of “My Paper Chase” as a potent exercise in escapist nostalgia—as an intoxicant that’s bound to produce, at least in journalists, the irresistible high of revisiting the halcyon era of the mainstream media. But Evans never actually says that he believes newspapers are going to come back as good as ever. Surely, if he were young today, he would be operating in the digital world, and surely that world is still full of nascent Harold Evanses, as determined to rise as he was.
adicionado por Shortride | editarThe New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann (Dec 7, 2009)
 
Like printing presses, the narrative cranks up slowly but then begins whirring as it celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain.
 
adicionado por Shortride | editarNew York Post, Emma Brockes (Nov 8, 2009)
 
"...this is a fascinating memoir that evokes a disappeared world of Underwood typewriters and smoke-filled newsrooms. More importantly, it makes a compelling case for the importance of long-term, campaigning investigative journalism that breaks out of the goldfish memory of the 24-hour news cycle, defies the weight of establishment opinion and has the courage to keep pursuing a story even when the public’s interest is on the wane."
adicionado por Jolene1975 | editarThe Irish Times, Hugh Linehan (Sep 26, 2009)
 
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In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life, a story stretching from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and off the map, entailing clashes with Rupert Murdoch and crusades to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate.

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