Journalism from days gone past?

Sir Harold spent nearly 60 years in the news business, including 14 years as the editor of the Sunday Times in London. He pioneered the use of investigative teams, a model of journalism now used world-wide. His own work included pieces pressuring the British government to compensate victims of Thalidomide (there is a particularly touching moment in the interview on this point) and other investigations into government stories that would have otherwise not come to the public's attention.

Although I'll confess to feeling a wave of nostalgia for days that may be behind us, I did like this comment by Sir Harold, made at a conference to journalists at the Guardian:

"I didn't want to write an extended obituary of journalism. One of the reasons I wrote this book... I wanted to do something which showed you what newspapers could do when the tried and had the will to do it."