
- 329 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Making Headlines
About this book
As editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell ran the largest stable of journalists with the largest editorial budget in the country for more than twelve years. This entertaining and deeply revealing book offers readers riveting insights into the quirks and foibles of some of the most powerful politicians and media executives this country has produced. A controversial figure throughout his quarter of a century as a daily editor, Chris Mitchell still maintains close regular contact with past prime ministers, editors and media CEOs. Making Headlines highlights the judgements and thinking that govern daily newspaper journalism at the highest level and the battles fought to publish tough stories about the rich and the powerful, the disenfranchised and the powerless. Making Headlines is compulsory reading for citizens who care, the political class inside the beltway and beyond, and wannabe journalists in search of a job.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1. Journalism? Why, when and how
- 2. John Howard and the repositioning of the national paper
- 3. Rudd: The gift that keeps on giving
- 4. Abbott, Rudd redux
- 5. Kim Williams: Grin and tonic
- 6. Rupert, my boss
- 7. Gillard: Careful what you wish for
- 8. Keating: Hearing Placido sing close up
- 9. What I know about being an editor
- 10. Aboriginal Australia
- 11. The future of journalism
- 12. War stories: Making a splash
- Epilogue
- Index