Hack
Subtitle: sex, drugs, and scandal from inside the tabloid jungle
By: Graham Johnson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781849838764; 9781849838771; 9781849838795
Subjects: Tabloid newspapers; Sensationsjournalistik; Journalists; Journalister; Biography
Other titles: Sex, drugs, and scandal from inside the tabloid jungle
Description: Graham Johnson was a fresh-faced journalist who dreamed of breaking the big news stories and making his name as a star reporter when an offer came in to work at a leading tabloid ... he couldn't say no. Instantly, he found himself drawn into a world of sleaze and corruption -- where bending the law was justifiable in the hunt for a story and bending the truth was the norm. Against his better judgement, Graham found his niche in this new world and, what's more, he found that he was good at it. In his time at the News of the World and then the Sunday Mirror, he became known as a man who could deliver the story, no matter what -- a tabloid terrorist willing to file through celebrities' bins, stake out politicians' hotel rooms, and buy-up page three girls, all in the name of scoring a front-page story. This is the compelling and intoxicating true story of one man's time in the tabloid jungle of sex, sleaze and secret tape recordings, and how he ultimately saved himself.