News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World Main Edition

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News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World Main Edition

Author(s): Alan Rusbridger (Author)

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publication Date: March 2, 2021
  • Edition: Main
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 304 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1838851615
  • ISBN-13: 9781838851613

Book Description

Nothing in life works without facts.

A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates.

People everywhere feel ever more alienated from – and mistrustful of – news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a crisis of ‘information chaos’.

News: And How to Use It is a glossary for this bewildering age. From AI to Bots, from Climate Crisis to Fake News, from Clickbait to Trolls (and more), here is the definitive user’s guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for Breaking News: [Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant Breaking News is essential – and entertaining – reading–SIR HAROLD EVANS “Observer”

A fascinating book and an important one– “Scotsman”

Alan Rusbridger is one of the most important journalists of his generation . . . this book needs to be read– “Independent”

Engaging . . . We love a good newspaper yarn, and Rusbridger provides a dandy– “Financial Times”

I particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger’s Breaking News – in places it’s as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism–HENRY MARSH “New Statesman, Best Books of 2018”

The book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence–IAN JACK “Guardian”

The portrait of Rusbridger that emerges is that of the rarest of newsroom species – someone with genuine bona fides as a journalist and an unassailable commitment to the profession’s enduring values, who also possesses the curiosity, nimbleness of mind and openness to change necessary to navigate the relentless, shape-shifting challenges that lie ahead for media companies today. The cascading crises afflicting journalism are now, rightly, understood to be threats to American democracy. It is hardly an overstatement, then, to say that the health of our society depends, in part, on future Rusbridgers emerging to take the reins of our news organisations– “New Yorker”

Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones–TOM STOPPARD “Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the Year”

It was my good luck – and the world’s – that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian‘s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism – indeed, our democracies depend on it–EDWARD SNOWDEN

Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential–STEVE COOGAN

Review

I particularly enjoyed Alan Rusbridger’s Breaking News – in places it’s as exciting as a thriller (and the good guys win) but it also gave me a new understanding of the difficulties that now confront good journalism — HENRY MARSH ― New Statesman, Best Books of 2018

It was my good luck – and the world’s – that Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian‘s editor when powerful governments tried to prevent the paper from revealing that they had deceived and disempowered their citizens. Alan is a fearless defender of the public interest who has had a singular career in journalism. His book is an urgent reminder that there is still a place for real journalism – indeed, our democracies depend on it — EDWARD SNOWDEN

Alan Rusbridger is one of the most important journalists of his generation . . . this book needs to be read ― Independent

The book [Rusbridger] has written is eloquent in its argument for well-resourced journalism, and never better than in its central narrative of how an old profession struggled to cope with a new technology that threatened it with obsolescence — IAN JACK ― Guardian

Just when we were feeling lost in the dark labyrinth of fake news and journalism in crisis, Alan Rusbridger lights his torch and leads the way. Essential — STEVE COOGAN

A fascinating book and an important one ― Scotsman

The portrait of Rusbridger that emerges is that of the rarest of newsroom species – someone with genuine bona fides as a journalist and an unassailable commitment to the profession’s enduring values, who also possesses the curiosity, nimbleness of mind and openness to change necessary to navigate the relentless, shape-shifting challenges that lie ahead for media companies today. The cascading crises afflicting journalism are now, rightly, understood to be threats to American democracy. It is hardly an overstatement, then, to say that the health of our society depends, in part, on future Rusbridgers emerging to take the reins of our news organisations ― New Yorker

Engaging . . . We love a good newspaper yarn, and Rusbridger provides a dandy ― Financial Times

Well written and unskimped, this will be a painful document when we wake up one morning with nothing to read at breakfast except our smartphones — TOM STOPPARD ― Times Literary Supplement, Best Books of the Year

Praise for Breaking News: [Rusbridger] has written a book of breathtaking range . . . The brilliant Breaking News is essential – and entertaining – reading — SIR HAROLD EVANS ― Observer

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