Terry Kirby, "The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of New Books Network. This is your host, Moteza Hajizadeh from Critical Theory Channel. Today, I'm honored to be speaking with Dr. Terry Kirby about his most recent book, which is called The Newsmonger, A History of Tabloid The book was published in 2024 by Reaction Press. And Terry Kirby is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Goldsmith University of London and also the author of The Trials of Baroness, 1991. He's been a journalist for more than four decades, and he was a founding member of staff at The Independent, where he worked for more than 20 years in a number of roles, including crime correspondent, night editor, and chief reporter. Terry, welcome to New Books Network.
Good morning. Good morning as it is in the UK here. It's very nice to be talking to you.
Thank you. Before we start talking about the book, can you just briefly tell us the idea behind the book? Why did you decide to write a book about the history of tabloid journalism?
Well, interesting enough, I was approached to write the book by the publishers. And my initial reaction was, no, this has been done before. I cannot believe that no one has actually written a kind of, you know, a sequential history book. of tabloid journalism from sort of what you might call start to the present day. But actually, there wasn't anything. There's lots of individual memoirs by various tabloid journalists There's a number of books that sort of look at the tabloid world in a kind of very jocular way, like, isn't this funny kind of thing? And there's some academic works that... which analyzed tabloid journalism in, frankly, a very dry and functional way. There is one that was published only about three or four years ago, but it only looked at daily newspapers, and it didn't look at Sunday tabloid journalism, which, of course, is a crucial part.
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