Books by Phillip Knightley
A Hack’s Progress
by Phillip Knightley
Knightley is simply an amazing journalist. He was on the Insight investigation team at the Sunday Times while it was under the editorship of Harry Evans. And, as with All the President’s Men, it's a book that has two different kinds of appeal – for a journalist, it's full of technical insight about what works, but beyond that, for any reader, it’s just full of great tales.
Interviews where books by Phillip Knightley were recommended
The best books on Investigative Journalism, recommended by Nick Davies
The investigative journalist says when he started out reporting PR copy was a real rarity. If you were writing about crime, you’d call the police station and speak to an officer.
The best books on Spies, Lies and Foreign Correspondents, recommended by Richard Beeston
From a biography of the Soviet Union’s most successful spy to an isolated German general in Tanzania in World War I, from a brilliant novel of World War II to what it was like in Moscow during Stalin’s show trials, British journalist Richard Beeston (1962-2013) recommends a range of books that resonated with him as he reported from troublespots around the globe.
