SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
Call that news?
ALEX HALL welcomes a raw and pacy analysis of the tabloid press, an immensely powerful weapon in class control
MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
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JAN WOOLF wallows in the historical mulch of post WW2 West Germany, and the resistant, challenging sense made of it by Anselm Kiefer
ANA ISABEL NUNES points to the empowering legacy of Augusto Boal’s Theatre Of The Oppressed
CARLOS MARTINEZ welcomes the publication of the writings of the great Palestinian author, political theorist and spokesman for the PFLP
The Newsmongers, A History of Tabloid Journalism
Terry Kirby, Reaktion, £20
TERRY KIRBY was one of the founding reporters for The Independent and worked his way through various senior positions in the paper. He now teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on journalism at Goldsmiths.
As such, The Newsmongers is a broadsheet journalist’s account of tabloid journalism. It focuses on the narrative of the story, keeps the who-what-when-why-how front and centre, has many central villains, and few heroes.
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