The great reporters /
David Randall.
- London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, c2005.
- vi, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
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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Journalists--United States--Biography. Reporters and reporting--History--United States--19th century. Reporters and reporting--History--United States--20th century.