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American Journalists: Getting the Story Hardback - 1998

by Donald A. Ritchie

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In 60 essays, this volume profiles American journalists from colonial times to the present--reporters, editors, publishers, photographers, and broadcasters--whose careers reflected major developments in their profession and in the history of the United States. In a speech to Newsweek correspondents in 1963, publisher Philip Graham described journalism as "the first rough draft of history." These journalists confronted and helped to shape the discussion of major issues and events in American history, from the American revolution through abolition, westward expansion, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, immigration, and the women's movement, as well as major constitutional issues involving the First Amendment protection of freedom of the press. Biographies of well-known journalists, from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine to Walter Cronkite and Rupert Murdoch, appear alongside some who may be less familiar, such as Elias Boudinot, founder of the first Cherokee language newspaper; Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward; and Daniel Craig, who in the 1830s used carrier pigeons to ferry the news. Other subjects include Margaret Green Draper, the revolutionary printer; Claude Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press; photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White; war correspondent Ernie Pyle; and Allen Neuharth, founder of USA Today. Illustrations, fact boxes, and quotations from the subjects themselves make this volume an indispensable reference for students of American history as well as a fascinating read.

Journalists profiled include:
Horace Greeley
Frederick Douglass
Mark Twain
Thomas Nast
Joseph Pulitzer
Nellie Bly
William Randolph Hearst
Ida Wells-Barnett
H. L. Mencken
Dorothy Thompson
Walter Winchell
Red Smith
Edward R. Murrow
Walter Cronkite
Bernard Shaw
Cokie Roberts
Manuel de Dios Unanue
and many more

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In one of the most dramatic trials held in colonial America, the printer John Peter Zenger was charged with seditious libel.

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  • Title American Journalists: Getting the Story
  • Author Donald A. Ritchie
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Publication date January 8, 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195099072 / 0195099079
  • Weight 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 11 x 8.4 x 1 in (27.94 x 21.34 x 2.54 cm)
  • Age range 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
  • Library of Congress subjects Journalists, Journalists - United States - Biography -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96029208
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Donald A. Ritchie is the author of The Young Oxford Companion to the Congress of the United States, Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents. He is associate historian of the U.S. Senate.

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