Red Top: Being a Reporter - Ethically, Legally and with Panache

By: Bill Coles

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Synopsis: 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. 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.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.He has also covered some of the world's biggest news stories - as well as some of the most bizarre --Bill Clinton's year-long sex scandal with his intern Monica Lewinsky.-The Boston murder trial of the British nanny Louise Woodward (with five Sun front pages in a row).-Buying $10,000 of lottery tickets in Miami-A blind-date with Ivana Trump - in a stretch limo.-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.-Posing naked for a Sun centrefold - with nothing but a copy of The Sun to hide his modesty.