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DARING TO FLY
Lisa Millar, Hachette, $32.99
If you know anyone planning a career in journalism, make sure they read Millar’s warts-and-all reveal. Since August 2019 she’s been co-presenter with Michael Rowland on ABC News Breakfast. It’s a chance to sit down after 10 years in Washington and three as bureau chief in London.
During that time, natural disasters, massacres and tragedies imposed by despots happened in swift succession. Knocking on the doors of the bereaved was particularly distasteful. “How do you write an obituary for a five-year-old? And then how do you write 19 more?”
Money is – erm – something of an issue at the ABC. The staff are public servants, after all, so you expect them to fly economy and stay at small hotels, while the journalists from CNN
