Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (Penguin Classics, 2000)
Classics
Evelyn Waugh: Scoop (ISBN: 9780141184029, paperback). Set in the offices of ‘The Daily Beast’, a tipoff from the wonderfully named, Mrs Algernon Stitch, about a brewing African war, spells peril for the competently incompetent nature columnist William Boot.