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The great reporters / David Randall.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randall, David, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Reporters and reporting.
- History.
- United States.
- Reporters and reporting--United States--History--19th century.
- Reporters and reporting--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Who are the greatest reporters in history? This unique book is the first to try and answer this question. Author David Randall searched nearly two centuries of newspapers and magazines, consulted editors and journalism experts worldwide, and the result is The Great Reporters - 13 in-depth profiles of the best journalists who ever lived.Each profile tells of the reporter's life and his or her major stories, how they were obtained, and their impact. Packed with anecdotes, and inspiring accounts of difficulties overcome, the book quotes extensively from each reporter's work. It also includes an essay on the history of reporting, charting the technologies, economics, and attitudes that made it the way it is - from the invention of the telegraph to the Internet. The Great Reporters is not just the story of 13 remarkable people, it is the story of how society's information hunter-gatherers succeed in bringing us all what we need to know.
- Contents:
- The world of the reporter
- 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 Davis : 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0745322972
- 0745322964
- OCLC:
- 58526551
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