"This is an important study of television history, written by someone who helped shape that history." "Geoffrey Cox traces the evolution of broadcast news from the earliest days of radio in Britain and the United States. He describes the influence of the cinema newsreels, and of cinema documentaries like March of Time, on the early television news bulletins. This aspect of film as an ancestor of television news has been surprisingly neglected in the past. Geoffrey Cox goes on to describe the development of television news from its earliest beginnings. He does so with the first-hand knowledge of someone who was engaged, day by day, in the newsroom and in the studio, in shaping this new force. In this blend of history and personal memoir, he tells not only what happened during those pioneering years, but also how the men and women at the heart of the action felt and thought at the time."--BOOK JACKET.