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American journalists : getting the story / Donald A. Ritchie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ritchie, Donald A., 1945- author.
- Series:
- Oxford profiles.
- Oxford profiles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalists--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Journalists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This volume profiles 60 American journalists from colonial times to the present and focuses on news reporters, editors, publishers, and broadcasters whose careers significantly advanced or were symbolic of major changes in their profession. Illustrations, fact boxes, and quotations from the subjects themselves, together with the depth and breadth of historical information, make this volume an illuminating and fascinating read.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Part 1. Freedom of the Press (1700-1860)
- John Peter Zenger
- Benamin Franklin
- Thomas Paine
- Margaret Green Draper
- John Fenno
- Philip Freneau
- Benjamin Franklin Bache
- Elias Boudinot
- Elijah P. Lovejoy
- James Gordon Bennett
- Horace Greeley
- Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Jane Grey Swisshelm
- More American Journalists to Remember
- Part 2. Technology Transforms Journalism (1860-1900)
- Daniel H. Craig
- Frederick Douglass
- Lawrence A. Gobright
- Joseph B. McCullagh
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
- Edwin L. Godkin
- Thomas Nast
- Henry Watterson
- Julian Ralph
- Kate Field
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman)
- William Randolph Hearst
- Richard Harding Davis
- Part 3. Society's Critics (1900-1945)
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Lincoln Steffens
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Abraham Cahan
- William Allen White
- William Monroe Trotter
- H. L. Mencken
- Claude Barnett
- Dorothy Thompson
- Walter Winchell
- Henry R. Luce
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Ernie Pyle
- Red Smith
- Edward R. Murrow
- Part 4. The Modern Journalist (1945-present)
- Walter Lippmann
- I. F. Stone
- James Reston
- Joseph Alsop
- Ethel L. Payne
- Walter Cronkite
- Marguerite Higgins
- Allen Neuharth
- Rupert Murdoch
- Georgie Ann Geyer
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- Bernard Shaw
- Cokie Roberts
- Manuel de Dios Unanue
- Museums and Historic Sites Relating to American Journalism
- Further Reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-802594-7
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