Great Books by Journalists
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Alan Rusbridger (Canongate, 2018)
uring 20 years as editor of the , Alan Rusbridger presided over its rise from “minnow” – the ninth-biggest newspaper in Britain – to whale. When he left in 2015. “Significantly,” he writes, “we had got there while still doing the stuff that journalism was – in our reckoning – supposed to do.” Rusbridger risked jail for scoops such as Edward Snowden’s revelations – as around him, the old media order was collapsing.
