Being a Reporter - Ethically Legally and with Panache

<p>Red Top has everything an aspiring reporter needs to know about newspaper journalism. Written in easily digestible bite-size chapters the book is packed with extraordinary stories that explain what it’s really like to be a front-line reporter.</p><p>Included is a full breakdown on the two key skills of how to interview and how to dig up exclusives. Plus tips on dealing with the mad-masters the editors; writing a news story; and what the hell to do when a libel writ comes thudding onto your desk.  </p><p>Bill Coles has been a journalist for 25 years and was The Sun’s New York Correspondent Political Correspondent and Royal Reporter. He has written for a huge variety of papers from The Wall Street Journal to the Mail the Scotsman and Prima Baby Magazine. </p><p>He has also covered some of the world’s biggest news stories – as well as some of the most bizarre:</p><ul> <li>Bill Clinton’s year-long sex scandal with his intern Monica Lewinsky. </li> <li>The Boston murder trial of the British nanny Louise Woodward (with five Sun front pages in a row). </li> <li>Buying $10000 of lottery tickets in Miami -</li> <li> A blind-date with Ivana Trump – in a stretch limo. </li> <li>Becoming one of Company magazine’s Bachelors of the Year. - Flying from New York to the Inca trail in Peru – to eat a giant guinea-pig.</li> <li>Posing naked for a Sun centrefold - with nothing but a copy of The Sun to hide his modesty.</li></ul>