Bootle Boy - An Untidy Life in News

As Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man for over five decades, Les Hinton witnessed the transformation of our media landscape. From copy boy to senior executive at News Corp, his stories about Clinton and Blair, Brown and Cameron, Princess Diana, phonehacking, and the man himself, Rupert Murdoch, are as insightful as they are revolutionary. This is one of the defining media memoirs of our age.

About the author

Les Hinton was born in Bootle, Merseyside, in 1944, the son of a British Army sergeant. For the first 15 years of his life he lived in Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Germany, Singapore, and numerous places in Britain. In 1959, his family emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, where he became a copy boy in a small evening newspaper owned by a rising young publisher, Rupert Murdoch. In the next 52 years, as Murdoch grew his empire, Hinton travelled the world, first as a correspondent, later as one of Murdoch’s most senior executives. He lives with his wife Kath in New York and London. This is his first book.

Summary

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media.


Les Hinton worked with Rupert Murdoch for more than five decades, and in that time witnessed the transformation of our media landscape. From copy boy at Murdoch’s first paper to senior executive at News Corp, his stories about Clinton and Blair, Brown and Cameron, Princess Diana, Johnny Rotten, phone-hacking, and the man himself, Rupert Murdoch, are as insightful as they are revolutionary. This is one of the defining media memoirs of our age.

Additional text

‘The stories are all told from the front row.’

Product details

• Authors: Les Hinton
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2019
• EAN: 9781912854110
• ISBN: 978-1-912854-11-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Memoirs, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, News media and journalism, Media, entertainment, information & communication industries, Media studies: Journalism, Media, Information & Communication Industries