News from No Man's Land: Reporting The World - Softcover

The third bestselling volume of autobiography from John Simpson.News from No Man's Land is a brilliant interweaving of John's recent experiences in Afghanistan with tales from his thirty plus years of journalism. Concentrating on how news is made, how leads are followed and how, quite simply, journalists get to the often far-flung places where stories break, this is vintage Simpson. In it, he talks, too, about the pressures placed on journalists, ethical and political, from foreign governments and surprisingly often from our own. Vivid, absorbing, and written with all the care and lucidity of his trademark reporting style, this will appeal to his many fans and win him many more

This third volume of autobiography from John Simpson concentrates on the mechanics of newsgathering and reporting, drawing on John's vast experience. With incident and anecdote, Simpson gives readers an insight into the way a journalist follows a story, even when the odds are stacked against them, and they are at risk of great personal danger, as for instance, when, disguised as a woman, he crossed the border into Afghanistan following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre.