Book review: Breaking News, by Alan Rusbridger
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Breaking News is a fascinating and at times irritating book, succinctly described in its subtitle: “The Remaking Of Journalism And Why It Matters Now.” Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015. When he took over from Peter Preston, the internet was new and newspapers didn’t know what to do about it. Newspapers themselves had changed since Rusbridger got his first job on the Cambridge Evening News in 1976. New technology had eliminated the old means of production, but essentially the model was still the same. A newspaper was a tangible object; its production was financed partly by sales, partly by advertisements. Readers paid only part of the cost of the paper they read.