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Voted one of the 40 "best books about journalism" ever by Press Gazette readers. Finalist in the British Journalism Awards.
Earlier this year, John Dale set out to discover how the first draft of history is written. He decided to explore the hidden reality of the ordinary mortals who are daily entrusted with this extraordinary responsibility. Put simply, were the hacks up to it?
It was the same question being raised by judges, politicians and an increasingly concerned public and so, over one 24-hour period, Dale tracked the intersecting lives of hundreds of working journalists.
The result is a global journey into love, war, fame, bombings, shame, sex, football, tears and Hollywood – in other words, an average news day.
Dale encountered editors, reporters, paparazzi, war correspondents, feature writers, columnists, agony aunts, fashion gurus, showbiz writers, broadcasters, trainees, unemployed hacks and billionaire moguls - in other words, an average cross-section of media folk.
Ranging from London to Los Angeles, from Kigali to Kabul, from Shanghai to Sydney, Dale asks: ‘Why are some journalists so good - and some journalists so bad?’
And in an 85,000-word text, he identifies a global superpower - journalism itself - and explains why so many practitioners offer it their allegiance above and beyond their own nation state.
Dale concludes: 'Journalist - it is both a badge of honour and the mark of a worldwide fraternity. We should wear it with pride.'
24 Hours is innovative and groundbreaking in being the first narrative book to describe how a free press works in real time. It descends into the engine room and reveals the machinery and oily rags. It exposes journalists’ thinking and actions, hopes and doubts, from frontline reporters to editors and proprietors.
With free speech under global attack, this is long overdue. Increasing numbers of journalists are being silenced, intimidated and murdered by those who despise the truth - tyrants and religious ideologues, drug mafias and oligarchs, politicians and business tycoons. They fear journalism more than bullets and bombs.
24 Hours is a cut-price internship, a lesson and a teaching aid all-in-one. In purpose and practice, its mission is the universal promotion of journalism, and a free press, for all.
(USUALLY £4.99/$7.75/€6.35)
Voted one of the 40 "best books about journalism" ever by Press Gazette readers. Finalist in the British Journalism Awards.
Earlier this year, John Dale set out to discover how the first draft of history is written. He decided to explore the hidden reality of the ordinary mortals who are daily entrusted with this extraordinary responsibility. Put simply, were the hacks up to it?
It was the same question being raised by judges, politicians and an increasingly concerned public and so, over one 24-hour period, Dale tracked the intersecting lives of hundreds of working journalists.
The result is a global journey into love, war, fame, bombings, shame, sex, football, tears and Hollywood – in other words, an average news day.
Dale encountered editors, reporters, paparazzi, war correspondents, feature writers, columnists, agony aunts, fashion gurus, showbiz writers, broadcasters, trainees, unemployed hacks and billionaire moguls - in other words, an average cross-section of media folk.
Ranging from London to Los Angeles, from Kigali to Kabul, from Shanghai to Sydney, Dale asks: ‘Why are some journalists so good - and some journalists so bad?’
And in an 85,000-word text, he identifies a global superpower - journalism itself - and explains why so many practitioners offer it their allegiance above and beyond their own nation state.
Dale concludes: 'Journalist - it is both a badge of honour and the mark of a worldwide fraternity. We should wear it with pride.'
24 Hours is innovative and groundbreaking in being the first narrative book to describe how a free press works in real time. It descends into the engine room and reveals the machinery and oily rags. It exposes journalists’ thinking and actions, hopes and doubts, from frontline reporters to editors and proprietors.
With free speech under global attack, this is long overdue. Increasing numbers of journalists are being silenced, intimidated and murdered by those who despise the truth - tyrants and religious ideologues, drug mafias and oligarchs, politicians and business tycoons. They fear journalism more than bullets and bombs.
24 Hours is a cut-price internship, a lesson and a teaching aid all-in-one. In purpose and practice, its mission is the universal promotion of journalism, and a free press, for all.
