'This book is a must read for any budding (or professional) journalist and any journalism or media scholar who wants to make a difference to the current media landscape.' - Andrea Baker, Media International Australia
'Harcup evokes a heady atmosphere of idealism, ideology and the seemingly effortless potential of off-set litho printing.' - Tim Dawson, The Journalist and Northern Voices
'Inevitably there is mixture of the personal and political, the subjective and objective in this review, but in a sense that is what much of the best writing in the alternative press was about, and this book is a valuable contribution to the exploration of its place in the history of journalism.' - Granville Williams, Journalism Education
'...travelling from the early chapters full of relaxed memoir and the poetry of schoolchildren and factory workers - direct and powerful - to, later on, the academic theses of people such as Clemencia Rodriquez, who never use one syllable where six will do, make this a slightly peculiar read. But one with treasures all the same.' - Bibi van der Zee, British Journalism Review
'This book [will] help scholars and students think beyond the mainstream and reflect on how other media contribute to the ethical landscape of journalism.' - Syed Irfan Ashraf, Journal of Mass Media Ethics
'A wealth of interesting history...Its contribution to the field is undoubted.' Megan Knight, Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
'Coming from an author with long-standing experience in the alternative media sector, the book gives voice to experiences of alternative media activists themselves, including the experiences of the author. This approach should make the book particularly attractive not only to journalism scholars and practitioners but also to educators and students. Another key strength of the book is its emphasis on parallels between historical cases of alternative journalism and current examples, highlighting a strong continuum of practice between the two.' - European Journal of Communication
