Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the...

Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the...
ISBN-10
089950549X
ISBN-13
9780899505497
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
391
Language
English
Published
1991
Publisher
McFarland Publishing
Authors
Robert Bingham Downs, Jane B. Downs

Description

Hundreds of men and women who have shaped the news world throughout the course of U.S. history are in this book. Newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television are all covered. Also covered are illustrators, muckrakers, etiquette columnists, sports reporters, war correspondents, and others. Certain names stand out--Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), Katharine Meyer Graham, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Samuel McClure, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Morrow--but many lesser known figures are included.

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