{"product_id":"american-journalist-getting-the-story-9780195328370","title":"American Journalist: Getting the Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Donald A. Ritchie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Journalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 60 essays, this volume profiles American journalists from colonial times to the present--reporters, editors, publishers, photographers, and broadcasters--whose careers reflected major developments in their profession and in the history of the United States. In a speech to \u003cem\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/em\u003e correspondents in 1963, publisher Philip Graham described journalism as \"the first rough draft of history.\" These journalists confronted and helped to shape the discussion of major issues and events in American history, from the American revolution through abolition, westward expansion, the Civil War, the civil rights movement, immigration, and the women's movement, as well as major constitutional issues involving the First Amendment protection of freedom of the press. Biographies of well-known journalists, from Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine to Walter Cronkite and Rupert Murdoch, appear alongside some who may be less familiar, such as Elias Boudinot, founder of the first Cherokee language newspaper; Abraham Cahan, editor of the \u003cem\u003eJewish Daily Forward\u003c\/em\u003e; and Daniel Craig, who in the 1830s used carrier pigeons to ferry the news. Other subjects include Margaret Green Draper, the revolutionary printer; Claude Barnett, founder of the Associated Negro Press; photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White; war correspondent Ernie Pyle; and Allen Neuharth, founder of \u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e. Illustrations, fact boxes, and quotations from the subjects themselves make this volume an indispensable reference for students of American history as well as a fascinating read. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Journalists profiled include: \u003cbr\u003e Horace Greeley\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Douglass\u003cbr\u003e Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Nast\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Pulitzer\u003cbr\u003e Nellie Bly\u003cbr\u003e William Randolph Hearst\u003cbr\u003e Ida Wells-Barnett\u003cbr\u003e H. L. Mencken\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy Thompson\u003cbr\u003e Walter Winchell\u003cbr\u003e Red Smith\u003cbr\u003e Edward R. Murrow\u003cbr\u003e Walter Cronkite\u003cbr\u003e Bernard Shaw\u003cbr\u003e Cokie Roberts\u003cbr\u003e Manuel de Dios Unanue\u003cbr\u003e and many more","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46890809294999,"sku":"9780195328370","price":2490.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195328370.webp?v=1770270885","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/american-journalist-getting-the-story-9780195328370","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}