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    Good Times, Bad Times

    By Harold Evans

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    In Harold Evans’s classic memoir, he tells the inside story of Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the Times of London and his rise to become a global media power

    In 1981, Harold Evans was the editor of one of Britain’s most prestigious publications, the Sunday Times, which had thrived under his watch. When Australian publishing baron Rupert Murdoch bought the daily Times of London, he persuaded Evans to become its editor with guarantees of editorial independence. But after a year of broken promises and conflict over the paper’s direction, Evans departed amid an international media firestorm. Evans’s story is a gripping behind-the-scenes look at Murdoch’s ascension to global media magnate. It is Murdoch laid bare, an intimate account of a man using the power of his media empire for his own ends. Riveting, provocative, and insightful, Good Times, Bad Times is as relevant today as when it was first written. This book features a new preface by the author, in which he discusses the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781480448711
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    Harold Evans

    Sir Harold Evans (1928–2020) was a celebrated British journalist and author who served as editor of the Sunday Times and the Times of London, president and publisher of Random House, editorial director of U.S. News & World Report, and editor at large of the Reuters news agency. As editor of the Sunday Times for fourteen years, Evans emphasized a style of tough investigative journalism responsible for breaking many of the day’s major news stories. His acclaimed books include Good Times, Bad Times; My Paper Chase; and New York Times bestseller The American Century.

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