Mark Baker: books that changed me

Updated September 18 2016 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
Author Mark Baker says Evelyn Waugh's <i>Scoop</I> should be a standard text for journalism students of all ages. Photo: Bruce Postle
Author Mark Baker says Evelyn Waugh's <i>Scoop</I> should be a standard text for journalism students of all ages. Photo: Bruce Postle

Mark Baker is a former senior editor of The Age, editor of The Canberra Times and managing editor of Fairfax Media. He has been a foreign correspondent, covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was wounded while reporting the civil war on Bougainville in the early 1990s. His new biography is Phillip Schuler: the remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents (Allen & Unwin).

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