QWERTY - Arendo Joustra

This book contains 607 lists about the past and present of journalism and related topics. It provides answers to questions such as:

• Which letter submitted led to voting with the red pencil?
• What price did a photo of Amsterdam residents collecting potatoes on Dam Square receive?
• Which newspaper was called The Pink Flag ?
• What was the shortest comment ever?
• Which cartoonists were taken to court?
• What was the name of the first columnist?
• What are the 72 most memorable television moments?
• What music uses a typewriter?
• What does a journalist mean by 'the branch'?
• Which Dutch journalists interviewed the American president?
• Who are the best reporters in The Hague?
• What are the worst advertising slogans?
• Which video has the most views on YouTube?
• Who wrote the poetry collection Cycling for de Volkskrant ?
• For which journalists was a statue erected?

'QWERTY offers a look behind the scenes of the media'

Arendo Joustra (1957) is vice-chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute for Sound & Vision in Hilversum and was a board member of the Press Museum in Amsterdam and chairman of the Society of Editors-in-Chief. He worked as a journalist for de Volkskrant and Elsevier, where he was editor-in-chief for a quarter of a century.