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926HistoryChronicle 66: That naughty Michael West
Donald Knowler continues his series on the glory days of newspapers and the characters who inhabited newsrooms of the past. Knowler, through...
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Our beloved green rectangle: New York’s (fraught) romance with Central Park
The relationship between New Yorkers and their most famous park is more complicated than we might want to admit. Back in 1905,...
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The Fox of Urban Britain
Tim Squires, http://timsquires.com/ In a recent “On the Wing” column in the Mercury, regular Tasmaniantimes contributor Don Knowler entered the great debate...
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The Chronicle 65: Nick
Nick Smith It was a memorial service fit for one of the legendary kings of Fleet Street, a Rothermere, Beaverbrook or even...
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884History
The Chronicle 64: Waiting for the paper
The clock struck midnight and Bentley looked towards the door of the Hope and Anchor on Hobart’s Macquarie Street. Midnight – or...
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The Chronicle 63: James A. Jones
Don Bentley sat in the Hobart Magistrate’s Court, waiting for his name to be called. The matter at hand was a contested...
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Wings from the past
I heard it first before its giant shadow fell across me. Not the whoosh of wings you’d think an eagle would make,...
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The Chronicle 62: The beautiful freelancer
DOWN at the journalists’ watering hole, Mahoney’s, Bentley had strict rules about who and who not to drink with at the bar....
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The Chronicle 61: Farewell Deon du Plessis
Deon du Plessis marched into the editor’s office for his interview for the position of trainee journalist on the broadsheet Star, Johannesburg....
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Tales of Megafauna Media: The Man in the Mac: A Life in Crime Writing
The veteran Guardian crime reporter looks back on the heyday of his trade in 50s and 60s Britain For me, it started...
