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Earning himself a reputation as a tough interviewer, Dryden hosted coverage of the 1975 election before presenting Friday Conference. He devoted years to his dream of launching a private TV channel. A 1991 series on education led to book The Learning Revolution, which sold in the millions. He died on 26 September 2022.

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OUT OF THE RED Author(s): DRYDEN, Gordon ISBN: 0002169355 Category: Biographies New / Used: Used Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket Published:1978 Published By: Collins Edition: 1st Edition Signed Pages:288 Size (mm):140 w x 220 h x 25 d

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Born to a sawmiller in the southern town of Owaka, Dryden attended roughly 15 primary schools around the South Island. At age 14 the avid reader quit school to pursue a journalism career. At 15 he got a job at Truth, having lied about his age. Jumping around various newspapers, including a stint subediting in Fiji, he ended up editing foreign news at Wellington’s Southern Cross at 18.

In his book Out of the Red, Dryden argued that despite winning a journalism award in 1950, he was blacklisted from news jobs for his part in revealing a government request to ‘kill’ a story (about the government breaking a pledge to unions, to honour secret ballots.) Dryden moved to Communist Party weekly People’s Voice. Conflicts over party politics meant a rocky ride, and soon led him to move into advertising. Just a week after writing a Communist Party pamphlet on international petrol companies, he "was churning out a new radio commercial for 'clean-burning' Europa". Dryden spent five years in advertising, before becoming a public relations consultant in 1961.