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Provides a questioning and insightful look at journalism's changing future, interspersed with documentation and anecdotes on the colorful history of journalism and its role as a great instrument of cultural diffusion, a guarantor of freedom of speech and protector of democracy.

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?What is the future of journalism? Cebri?n ( Red Doll ), a novelist and one of the original editors of Spain's newspaper of record, El Pa?s , analyzes the changes to the traditional newspaper in particular and to the profession in general. In this collection of insightful and instructive essays, he addresses the challenges journalists face in this age of instantaneous electronic media. The illustrious newspaperman brings a sense of history and gravitas to his writing, a result of living and working in a country transitioning from the media-restricted Fascist regime of Francisco Franco to a struggling democracy with a free and open press. This experience is what leads Cebri?n to assert that journalism plays a vital role in protecting civil liberties and democratic values. This gem of a book is a valuable manual for aspiring journalists and an informative guidebook for the rest of us.? -- Library Journal A welcome contribution to a conversation too often dominated by Anglophone perspectives. -- The New Yorker What is the future of journalism? Cebri?n ( Red Doll ), a novelist and one of the original editors of Spain's newspaper of record, El Pa?s, analyzes the changes to the traditional newspaper in particular and to the profession in general. In this collection of insightful and instructive essays, he addresses the challenges journalists face in this age of instantaneous electronic media. The illustrious newspaperman brings a sense of history and gravitas to his writing, a result of living and working in a country transitioning from the media- restricted Fascist regime of Francisco Franco to a struggling democracy with a free and open press. This experience is what leads Cebri?n to assert that journalism plays a vital role in protecting civil liberties and democratic values. This gem of a book is a valuable manual for aspiring journalists and an informative guidebook for This impressive first novel by the director of El Pais, Spain's largest newspaper, has a Graham Greene-like resonance. The light the book throws on the complexities of political life in modern Spain should be edifying to readers here. - Publisher's Weekly (refers to Red Doll ) More than just a love story or a thriller, this novel thoughtfully depicts Spain's current situation as it entertains by conventional means. -Jack Shrieve, Library Journal

This impressive first novel by the director of El Pais , Spain's largest newspaper, has a Graham Greene-like resonance. The light the book throws on the complexities of political life in modern Spain should be edifying to readers here. <br> - Publisher's Weekly (refers to Red Doll ) <br> More than just a love story or a thriller, this novel thoughtfully depicts Spain's current situation as it entertains by conventional means. <br> -Jack Shrieve, Library Journal

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Juan Luis Cebrian is one of the original editors of Spain's leading newspaper El Pais, it first director, and a member of the board of directors of Le Monde.

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