【图书简介】 Book DescriptionOn 13 November 2001， John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban， a campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning， despite appalling difficulties and， often， great danger.In this， his third volume of autobiography， John Simpson focuses on how journalists set about finding the stories that make the headlines. Drawing on his own vast experience， he shows how news stories arise and are selected and developed， how the most improbable leads can result in a scoop and how weeks of work can never see the light of day. He discusses the frustrations of being in the wrong place at the wrong time， or of missing a major news event by just one day. He talks about the mechanics of news gathering and describes how reporters and television crews reach the places where news breaks， whether it's by smuggling themselves across borders disguised in burkas， spending a good deal of the licence fee on bribing local brigands or driving in dilapidated jeeps across dry river beds.Simpson talks， too， about the pressures placed on journalists， from ethical issues and how to tackle them to government interference， from foreign governments seeking to suppress adverse news and from our own. Drawing on occasionally bitter experience， he advises how best to tackle such pressures from higher authorities， be they cabinet ministers， hostile police forces in foreign countries or even other parts of the media. This third volume of autobiography from John Simpson concentrates on the mechanics of newsgathering and reporting， drawing on John's vast experience. With incident and anecdote， Simpson gives readers an insight into the way a journalist follows a story， even when the odds are stacked against them， and they are at risk of great personal danger， as for instance， when， disguised as a woman， he crossed the border into Afghanistan following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. Book Dimensionlength： （cm）23.4width：（cm）15.3-读书网|DuShu.com
【作者简介】 John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor. He has twice been the Royal Television Society's Journalist of the Year. He has also won three BAFTAs， including the Richard Dimbleby award in 1991 and the News and Current Affairs award in 2000 for his coverage， with the BBC News team， of the Kosovo conflict. He has written several books， including his two previous volumes of autobiography， Strange Places， Questionable People and A Mad World， My Masters.
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