About Tim Albert Training

How the
media work

Other categories of books include:

Writing process

Medical writing

Grammar and style

Other writing and publishing (to include journalism)

From pitch to publication, Carole Blake, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999. An agent's view of how to get published (see review).

The fight for public health: principals and practice of media advocacy, Simon Chapman and Deborah Lupton, London: BMJ Books, 1994. Excellent explanation on how the media work - and how this understanding can be used to put across powerful public health messages. A welcome counter-weight to some dangerous stereotypes.

Medical journalism: the writer’s guide, Tim Albert, Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 1992. This book takes doctors and health professionals through the steps needed to write an article for newspapers or magazines.[Note: out of print but available in libraries.)

Journal publishing, Gillian Page, Robert Campbell and Jack Meadows, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997. The standard work for those wishing to know how to set up a journal. Not many jokes.

Secrets of the press: journalists on journalism, edited by Stephen Glover, London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1999. A series of elegant essays from 28 of the best contemporary journalists, from Alan Watkins on 'watering holes' to Michael White on spin-doctors. An entertaining insight into a fundamentally honest culture.