Reading List
Alan Rusbridger
Journalist and Editor
Alan Rusbridger edited The Guardian from 1995 to 2015, the years in which it published the phone-hacking investigation and the Snowden files, and edited Prospect from 2022 to 2025. He was principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in between. His own books turn on sustained attention: Play It Again is an account of learning a Chopin ballade in a year of crisis, and Breaking News examines what happened to journalism when its business model collapsed.
We the Media
Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People
by Dan Gillmor
Recommended via Interview, April 2012
Too Big to Know
by David Weinberger · 2011 · Non-Fiction
“If you want to know about the environment in depth, or the law in depth, the question is who can deliver that the most effectively. Is it going to be one journalist, which is all that most papers can currently afford? Can that one journalist match the wealth of content that is being produced by people who are PhDs and whose lives are spent obsessing about the environment or law?” — Source
Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams · 2006 · Non-Fiction
Recommended via Interview, July 2012
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 2008 · Non-Fiction
Recommended via Interview, July 2012