The great reporters [electronic resource] / David Randall.

By: Randall, David, 1951-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005Description: vi, 280 p. : ill., portsISBN: 9781849644587 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Journalists -- United States -- Biography | Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 070.92/273 LOC classification: PN4871 | .R38 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The world of the reporter : how, when and where the job has changed in 150 years -- William Howard Russell : the man who invented war corresponding -- Edna Buchanan, the best crime reporter there's ever been -- A.J. Liebling : the most quotable wit ever by-lined -- George Seldes : a reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty -- Nellie Bly : the best undercover reporter in history -- Richard Harding Davies : one of the best descriptive reporters ever -- J.A. Macgahan : perpetrator of perhaps the greatest single piece of reporting ever -- James Cameron : the definitive foreign correspondent -- Floyd Gibbons : the supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment -- Hugh Mcilvanney : the best writer ever to apply words to newsprint -- Ernie Pyle : the reporter who never forgot who he was writing for -- Ann Leslie : the most versatile reporter ever -- Meyer Berger : the reporters' reporter.
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The world of the reporter : how, when and where the job has changed in 150 years -- William Howard Russell : the man who invented war corresponding -- Edna Buchanan, the best crime reporter there's ever been -- A.J. Liebling : the most quotable wit ever by-lined -- George Seldes : a reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty -- Nellie Bly : the best undercover reporter in history -- Richard Harding Davies : one of the best descriptive reporters ever -- J.A. Macgahan : perpetrator of perhaps the greatest single piece of reporting ever -- James Cameron : the definitive foreign correspondent -- Floyd Gibbons : the supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment -- Hugh Mcilvanney : the best writer ever to apply words to newsprint -- Ernie Pyle : the reporter who never forgot who he was writing for -- Ann Leslie : the most versatile reporter ever -- Meyer Berger : the reporters' reporter.

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