Displaying 1 of 1 1997 Format: Book Author: Ritchie, Donald A., 1945- Title: American journalists : getting the story / Donald A. Ritchie. Publisher, Date: New York : Oxford University Press, ©1997. Description: 331 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Summary: Sixty essays on American news reporters, editors, publishers, and broadcasters, including Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, and Connie Chung, whose careers significantly advanced or symbolized major changes in journalism. Series: Oxford profiles Oxford profiles. Subjects: Journalists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Genre: Biographies. Literature. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index. Contents: Part 1: Freedom of the press (1700-1860): John Peter Zenger -- Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Paine -- Margaret Green Draper -- John Fenno -- Philip Freneau -- Benjamin Franklin Bache -- Elias Boudinot -- Elijah P. Lovejoy -- James Gordon Bennett -- Horace Greeley -- Margaret Fuller Ossoli -- Jane Grey Swisshelm -- More American journalists to remember -- Part 2: Technology transforms journalism (1860-1900): Daniel H. Craig -- Frederick Douglass -- Lawrence A. Gobright -- Joseph B. McCullah -- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- Edwin L. Godkin -- Thomas Nast -- Henry Watterson -- Julian Ralph -- Kate Field -- Joseph Pulitzer -- Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) -- William Randolph Hearst -- Richard Harding Davis -- More American journalists to remember -- Part 3: Society's critics (1900-1945): Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Lincoln Steffens -- Ida M. Tarbell -- Abraham Cahan -- William Allen White -- William Monroe Trotter -- H.L. Mencken -- Claude Barnett -- Dorothy Thompson -- Walter Winchell -- Henry R. Luce -- Margaret Bourke-White -- Ernie Pyle -- Red Smith -- Edward R. Murrow -- More American journalists to remember -- Part 4: The modern journalist (1945-present): Walter Lippmann -- I.F. Stone -- James Reston -- Joseph Alsop -- Ethel L. Payne -- Walter Cronkite -- Marguerite Higgins -- Allen Neuharth -- Rupert Murdoch -- Georgie Ann Geyer -- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein -- Bernard Shaw -- Cokie Roberts -- Manuel de Dios Unanue -- More American journalists to remember -- Museums and historic sites relating to American journalism. Web Site: Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 96029208 ISBN: 0195099079 9780195099072 Other Number: 35212751 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 64110 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 070.92273 Ritchie Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
