I laughed out loud, winced a bunch and remembered how important this stuff is. I read it cover-to-cover and then read it again. This will be required text for aspiring TV news reporters.

Your book was well worth the waiting. You have amazingly articulated every serious thought I ever had about TV journalism. Well done.

Time and again, I've seen the approach outlined in these pages work magic with TV journalists. It's a great antidote to cynicism and can rekindle enthusiasm in the crustiest and most jaded - those who've lost sight of the meaning of the important work we do. Throughout my career it's the philosophy and ideas encapsulated in these pages that have taught, illuminated and inspired me the most.

It is both humorously serious and bluntly incisive as it attacks our customary and unexamined way of thinking about TV broadcasting. A beautiful read, it casts a unique lens on today's realities of TV journalism while presenting an articulate, sensitive, practical inside/out approach to broadcast journalism and getting behind the psyche of the players.

His view of how TV news should be done gets its power, in part, from the author's integrity and his moral world-view. Finally, it is also great fun: Knight's writing suggests if you approach TV journalism without also having fun, you're doing it wrong.

Your book will be a welcome text in all television journalism schools in the English-speaking world. It has pizzazz, courage and a mountain of experiential stories that teach, illuminate and even inspire. It is the best text on television journalism that I have read since I started teaching television journalism in the mid-1980s.

This is what thrills me most about your book - it is challenging, provocative and laden with good ideas for a truly creative approach to television journalism. I can offer it to students in the sure knowledge that it will achieve at least two things; first, it is a darned good read, which means they will approach it with pleasure; second, it is bound to help them to become both better story-tellers and visual literates.

Storytelling And The Anima Factor is a textbook for a revolution in television. Here, finally, is a book which breaks with the tradition of print to offer a new journalism for a medium we are just beginning to understand. This book should be read by everyone working in television. Hell, it should be read by everyone who wants to work in television. The viewers would be grateful.

... what you are postulating is a valid and long-overdue reassessment of TV news processing; I heartily concur with your critique and know it needs to be hammered home among broadcasters - not to mention current journalism students. In fact, I think young journalists - and those older ones wise enough to see that what's going on is not working - are hungry for your message.