The Journalist in British Fiction and Film: Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the Present

Cover\nContents\nEpigraph\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: A Century of Guarding the Guardians\n1 Edwardian Journalist-Heroes at the Birth of the Popular Press\n2 Despatches from the Trenches: Poets as War Correspondents\n3 ‘The interview with the cat had been particularly full of appeal’: The Interwar ‘Battle of the Brows’ from Below\n4 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Hack: Journalism and Espionage in a Time of War 1933–1979\n5 ‘I call my cancer – the main one in my pancreas – Rupert’: The Press Baron from Northcliffe to Murdoch\n6 ‘A journalist’s finished at forty, of course’: Alienation, Disenchantment, Irrelevance in the Post-War ‘Age of Anxiety’\n7 From Plucky Pioneers to ‘Dish Bitches’: The ‘Problem’ of Women Journalists\n8 ‘Now we don’t even have anyone in fucking Manchester’: Falling Apart in the ‘Last Chance Saloon’\nConclusion: ‘People should probably have newsprint on their hands when they read it’: Imagining Journalism in the Internet Age in Britain and the United States\nBibliography\nIndex