Open AccessREVIEW: Media must build and retain trust
Author(s) -
Philip Cass
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1140
Subject(s) - journalism , reputation , publishing , biography , media studies , project commissioning , reading (process) , sociology , art history , management , art , political science , law , social science , economics
A Day Like Today, by John Humphrys. London, UK: William Collins, 2019. 400 pages. ISBN 9780007415595 400pp.
JOHN HUMPHRYS will be less well known outside the UK than his contemporary from BBC World, John Simpson, but his autobiography is an entertaining and informative recounting of his career and well worth reading. For more than three decades he presided over BBC Radio 4’s flagship early morning current affairs programme, Today. Like Jeremey Paxman on BBC2’s Newsnight, he built a reputation for taking no prisoners in interviews and for having a keen sense of what makes good radio journalism.