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Author Ritchie, Donald A., 1945-

Title American journalists : getting the story / Donald A. Ritchie
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford profiles
Oxford profiles.
Contents Part 1: Freedom of the press (1700-1860): John Peter Zenger -- Benjamin 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. McCullah -- 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 -- More American journalists to remember -- 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 -- More American journalists to remember -- 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 -- More American journalists to remember -- Museums and historic sites relating to American journalism
Summary Sixty essays on American news reporters, editors, publishers, and broadcasters, including Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Connie Chung, whose careers significantly advanced or symbolized major changes in journalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index
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Subject Journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Journalists
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Reference -- General.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- General.
Journalists.
Journalisten.
Journalistiek.
Journalism & Communications.
Journalism.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96029208
ISBN 1423774086
9781423774082
1280564040
9781280564048
9786610564040
6610564043
9780198025948
0198025947