News in the Regions

This book gives an inside view of journalists at work in the Midlands, Yorkshire, South-East England and Central Scotland - with relevance also to other areas. It examines news priorities, decision-making, sources and the differences between newspapers, television news and radio. The author draws attention to the duty of journalists to uncover what the authorities often do not want to make public - and to the success of many regional newspapers and broadcasters in discovering and presenting the news. He also points to extraordinary omissions in national coverage of regional events. Alastair Hetherington, who was an editor of "The Guardian" from 1956 to 1975, also wrote "Guardian Years", "News, Newspapers and Television" and "Perthshire in Trust".