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Martin Flanagan

Martin Flanagan reviews 'Disreputable Profession: Journalists and journalism in Colonial Australia' edited by Denis Cryle

November 1997, no. 196 01 November 1997
In his introduction, Queensland academic Denis Cryle writes, ‘Journalism history is bound up, not only with literary history in its contemporary sense, but with cultural history’. So true, yet so little appreciated or acknowledged in this country until very recently; unlike , say, the United States where the interplay of journalism and literature is basic to an understanding of writers ranging ... (read more)