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1 online resource (vi, 280 pages) : illustrations |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
The world of the reporter -- Meyer Berger, the reporters' reporter -- Nellie Bly, the best undercover reporter in history -- Edna Buchanan, the best crime reporter there's ever been -- James Cameron, the definitive foreign correspondent -- Richard Harding Davies, one of the best descriptive reporters ever -- Floyd Gibbons, the supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment -- Ann Leslie, the most versatile reporter ever -- AJ Liebling, the most quotable wit ever by-lined -- JA Macgahan, perpetrator of perhaps the greatest piece of reporting ever -- Hugh mcilvanney, the best writer ever to apply words to newsprint -- Ernie pyle, the reporter who never forgot who he was writing for -- William howard russell, the man who invented war corresponding -- George seldes, a reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Randall, David, 1951- Great reporters. London ; Ann Arbor, Michigan : Pluto Press, c2005 vi, 280 pages 9780745322964 (DLC) 2005006707 |
| ISBN |
9780745322964 |
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9781783716272 (e-book) |
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