A history of American journalism honors 285 of America's most important newspeople, profiling leading photojournalists, war reporters, humorists, investigative journalists, and critics, including Thomas Paine, Robert Capa, Carl Rowan, Dorothy Parker, Barbara Walters, and others. 15,000 first printing.
Profiles nearly three hundred of America's most important news people, including the leading photojournalists, war correspondents, humorists, investigative reporters, critics, and anchor people
Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists traces the lives and times of nearly 300 American newspeople, from the Colonial printer who wrote about the sex life of the king of France to the Global Village anchor who as a young man stood up dates in order to listen to Edward R. Murrow.
This entertaining book introduces readers to the inside story of news, as told by journalistic sleuths and sloths, martyrs and moguls. First Amendment heroes and notorious scandalmongers.
From the community