Here’s a great listen in the sun over the Bank Holiday weekend from BBC Sounds:
What does it take to be a great news editor? Tom Hopkinson was sacked by the proprietor of Picture Post for trying to run a true story during the 1950 Korean War. Later he also sent a photographer – Ian Berry – to cover the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa for Drum …. in time he fell out with the proprietor of that magazine as well. “To affect the world you’ve got to get into a position to affect it,” he said, “and that means you’ve got to be very patient and fight your way in.”