David Randall

El buen periodismo posee unos objetivos universales y se basa en la adquisición de una amplia gama de aptitudes que permitirán al periodista trabajar en una industria donde las formas de propiedad, la tecnologia y la informacion estan sometidas a un cambio continuo. Este manual, que viene a llenar un vacio, pone en tela de juicio las actitudes, los procedimientos y las tecnicas tradicionales del periodismo cuando su autor los juzga hipocritas o chapuceros. David Randall nos enseña que existe una manera, cuando no muchas, de realizar un periodismo veraz y profundo y, de tal suerte, restablecer la fe en una profesion asediada desde fuera por los enemigos de la libertad de expresion y desde dentro por quienes traicionan el buen hacer periodistico, ya sea debido a las presiones estatales, ya a la intromision de los ambiciosos magnates de los medios de comunicacion de Occidente y Oriente. "Me gusta su gran sentido practico, su firme adhesion al periodismo veraz y su compromiso con la calidad... El estilo fluido de David Randall y los interesantisimos ejemplos que ofrece hacen que leer este libro sea un placer. Cualquiera que aspire a ser periodista deberia estudiarlo... una y otra vez". Val Williams, Director, Departamento de Prensa, de Thomson Foundation

The suburbs long sneered at for being dreary and stultifying have always been far livelier and more entertaining than theyre given credit for. In this witty and sharply observed account of what it was like to grow up in one in the 1950s and 60s, David Randall gives the other side of suburbia: full of absurdities and happiness, scandals and follies, and inhabitants both sage and silly. Here, at last, is the truth about what life was really like behind the often-closed (but not always net) curtains of our semi-detacheds. This is that rare book: a most unmiserable memoir.

Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that Americas pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination.Wall Street JournalDavid K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was. Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 HoursThrilling reading...an account filled with unexpected layers of intrigue. Recommend Into Unknown Skies to Erik Larson fans. BooklistThe unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European rivals, created technology that changed aviation, and convinced America that its future was in the sky. In the early 1920s, Americas faith in aviation was in shambles. Twenty years after the Wright Brothers first flight, most Americans believed airplanes were for delivering the mail or performing daredevil stunts in front of crowds. The dream of commercial air travel remained just that. Even the American military was a skepticrather than pay to bring its planes back from Europe following World War I, the War Department chose to burn most of them instead. All that changed with a single race in 1924. It was not just any race, thoughit was a race to become the first to circle the globe in an airplane, pitting a team of underdog American pilots against the best aviators in the world from England, Italy, Portugal, France, and Argentina. Rooted in the same daring spirit that pushed early twentieth-century explorers to attempt crossings of the Antarctic ice or locate the source of the Nile, this race was an adventure unlike anything the world had seen before. The obstacles were dauntingfrom experimental planes, to dangerous landings in uncharted territory, to the simple navigational gauges that could lead pilots hundreds of miles off course. Failure seemed all but guaranteedthe suspense less about who would win than how many would perish for the honor of being the first.Now on the races centennial, award-winning author David K. Randall tells the story of this riveting, long-forgotten race. Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease, and ultimately triumph, Into Unknown Skies demonstrates how one race returned America to aviation greatness. A story of underdog teammates, bold exploration, and American ingenuity, Into Unknown Skies is an untold adventure tale showing the power of flight to bring the world together.

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