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Book SynopsisProfiles the greatest journalists in history & their best stories -- chosen by David Randall of the Independent on Sunday
Trade Review'Entertaining, amusing, even inspirational. Above all, what every good reporter aims to deliver, a great read' -- Peter Cole, professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield
'American newsrooms need to buy this inspiring book by the carton. David Randall's gripping collection of profiles in inky courage demonstrates that our current malaise amounts to ignorance of the perpetual siege of newsrooms by the powerful and the parsimonious. The Great Reporters is rich with the kind of lore that needs to inform the culture of newspaper journalism' -- Dean Miller, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction
How the great reporters were chosen
1. The World of the Reporter
How, when and where the job has changed in 150 years
2. Meyer Berger
The reporters’ reporter
3. Nellie Bly
The best undercover reporter in history
4. Edna Buchanan
The best crime reporter there’s ever been
5. James Cameron
The definitive foreign correspondent
6. Richard Harding Davies
One of the best descriptive reporters ever
7. Floyd Gibbons
The supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment
8. Ann Leslie
The most versatile reporter ever
9. AJ Liebling
The most quotable wit ever by-lined
10. JA MacGahan
Perpetrator of perhaps the greatest piece of reporting ever
11. Hugh McIlvanney
The best writer ever to apply words to newsprint
12. Ernie Pyle
The reporter who never forgot who he was writing for
13. William Howard Russell
The man who invented war corresponding
14. George Seldes
A reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty
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