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Publisher's FOR MUCH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, New Zealand Truth was the tough,vulgar tabloid newspaper that tapped the pulse of Kiwi populism. By the mid-1960s, the ‘people’s paper’ claimed an astonishing one million readers a week.This book tells how Truth revolutionised the local newspaper industry byintroducing a ‘new journalism’ in 1905, which aimed a core diet of sex, crime, radical politics and random muck-raking directly at the masses.It was a successful formula, and by the middle of the century, Truth was amedia governments bowed to its editorial campaigns and rival newspapers followed its innovations. What are now niainstays of modern newspapers, such as investigative journalism and salacious celebrity yarns, all began at Truth.Over the years the paper has also had a remarkable cast of journalists andcontributors including Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Sir Bernard Freyberg, Bruno Lawrence, Robin Hyde, Maurice Shadbolt and David Low.Truth’s scandal-ridden history has never been told before. Author Redmer Yska, himself a former Truth reporter, penetrates the inner workings of this scurrilous, colourful paper for the first time, and along the way provides a unique insight into the bigger story of the New Zealand media in the twentieth century.
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Redmer Yska has worked in journalism and communications for his entire career, including a stint as a reporter at New Zealand Truth in the 1970s. Since then he has worked as a media and communications consultant, a Parliamentary press secretary, a ministerial speechwriter, and a historian. In 2007 he was awarded a National Library Research Fellow to research and write this book. His previous publications include Wellington: biography of a city, All Shook Up: The flash bodgie and the rise of the NZ teenager in 1950s, and NZ Green: The story of marijuana in New Zealand.
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Truth: The Rise and Fall of the People's Paper
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Truth
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Truth The Rise and Fall of the People's Paper By Redmer Yska. Publisher: Craig Potton Publishing , 2010 Near new softback, no inscriptions, minor edge-wear. 204 pages, illustrated. For much of the twentieth century New Zealand Truth was this country's most popular newspaper, and by the mid-1950s claimed a readership of half a million people. Not surprisingly Truth gained a position of considerable influence within New Zealand. This highly readable history tells the story of how the newspaper began in 1905, steadily rose to a position of considerable prominence, before steadily losing its relevance after the social upheavals of the 1960s, and then finally petering out in 2005. Redmer Yska argues that Truth was the first modern newspaper in New Zealand, the vanguard for 'new journalism' that has so heavily shaped our modern media. New journalism produced popular papers that were aimed at working people and described as 'brightly written, easily read newspapers, small in size but big in heart, with closely edited news, human-interest features, fearless news coverage and local crusades and hard-fighting independent editorial opinion.' While Truth is best remembered for its core diet of sex, crime, reactionary politics and all-round muck-raking, it's history is more complex than that, and it had a central, often over-looked role as an important champion of working people and their causes. Truth's scandal-ridden history has never before been told. This book not only documents an important part of New Zealand's media history, but also gives us a fascinating and colourful window on this country's social history. ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. All books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand. Seller Inventory # ABE-1761370283784
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