Books
To date I’ve written three books. I tend to write books in partnership - it is a lonely occupation and, at the small end of town, generally unremunerative. Best to write about something interesting.
- Can You Trust the Media? with Adrian Monck. In the words of the Washington Post, the book
…rips into what they call the culture’s “trust obsession.” Beware the newspapers, magazines, TV news operations and other media institutions that crave the audience’s trust, they counsel. It’s just a con they’re running so they can sell your eyeballs to advertisers. Likewise, spurn those who pine for more “trustworthy” media institutions. Individual reporters and columnists may be trustworthy, but the only dependable way to tame the public’s doubts is to give them access to the raw data from which journalism is produced.
And in the words of the FT, it is “accessible and jauntily written.”
- Crunch Time: how everyday life is killing the future. Also with Adrian. This book, first published in Australia in 2004, takes the big issues the world is facing today, such as climate change, population, technology, financial volatility, and puts them under the microscope from the journalist’s point of view. The Sydney Morning Herald said:
This book appealed immediately…Mike Hanley (an Australian journalist) and Adrian Monck (a British journalist) discuss issues such as globalism, corporate power, emails, the environment and security in an uplifting, inspiring and witty way.
Here is the Google books listing of the Australian edition of Crunch Time.
And
- What Matters: Success and Work Life Balance with Daniel Petre. Daniel is a high flying corporate executive, used to run Microsoft Australia, now manages an e-commerce private equity portfolio for News Limites called Netus, who has a thing about work-life balance. In Father Time, Daniel’s first book, he wrote about the time pressures of working a family into the corporate timetable, and how crucial it is. In this follow-up book, written with me, Daniel explores this theme further, but focusses on what it means to be truly successful.
