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The great reporters / David Randall.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005.Description: vi, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0745322972 (hardback)
  • 0745322964 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.92
LOC classification:
  • PN 4871 R188g 2005
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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.
Summary: Profiles the greatest journalists in history & their best stories -- chosen by David Randall of the Independent on Sunday
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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.

Profiles the greatest journalists in history & their best stories -- chosen by David Randall of the Independent on Sunday

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