[IAN FLEMING]--KEMSLEY NEWSPAPERS

THE KEMSLEY MANUAL OF JOURNALISM… LONDON: CASSELL & CO LTD, 1950

4to, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGN𒊎ED BY VISCOUNT KEMSLEY on title-page, photographic illustrations, original brown buckram, lettered in gilt

The sub-title for this volume reads ‘Being a detailed guide to the entire range of newspaper work and🍎 the careers it offers, an analysis for the general reader of the principles, standards and codes of a free Press, and a textbook for courses of study in journalism, the whole written by editors and leading authorities in the newspaper industry.’

The volume includes an essay by Fleming, e🦩ntitled "Foreign News". Fleming was Kemsley’s Foreign Manager from 1945 to 1959.

"Foreign news is no more or less important than♕ any other category of news, but it is more difficult and expensive to obtain, and our insularity m♑akes the digestion of foreign news more of an effort both for the editiorial machine and for the public" (Ian Fleming)