REVIEW: Soul-searching and revealing memoir charts milestones :

Gavin Ellis

doi:10.24135/pjr.v28i1and2.1254

REVIEW: Soul-searching and revealing memoir charts milestones

Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, by Jim Tucker

Gavin Ellis Media Consultant and Researcher, Auckland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v28i1and2.1254

Keywords: bylines, columnist, Jim Tucker, journalism, journalism education, memoirs, New Zealand News, newspapers, New Zealand, Sunday Star-Times, Taranaki Herald, The Auckland Star

Abstract

Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, by Jim Tucker. New Plymouth, NZ: Jim Tucker Media. 2022, 283 pages.

'NAMES make news' is a mantra drummed into the head of every young reporter and heaven help those who can’t identify a vital quote or face. It is a lesson that veteran journalist and educator Jim Tucker never forgot. The evidence of that lies in the pages of Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, the first part of his memoir spanning a career that began in Taranaki in 1965 and which has gone full circle. Tucker is a regular columnist on the Taranaki Daily News after serving as a metropolitan newspaper reporter and editor then becoming one of New Zealand’s foremost journalism trainers.

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Published

31-07-2022

How to Cite

Ellis, G. (2022). REVIEW: Soul-searching and revealing memoir charts milestones : Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, by Jim Tucker . Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 28(1 & 2), 237-240. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v28i1and2.1254