The great reporters - Randall, David, 1951- (London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005)
The world of the reporter -- Meyer Berger, the reporters' reporter -- Nellie Bly, the best undercover reporter in history -- Edna Buchanan, the best crime reporter there's ever been -- James Cameron, the definitive foreign correspondent -- Richard Harding Davies, one of the best descriptive reporters ever -- Floyd Gibbons, the supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment -- Ann Leslie, the most versatile reporter ever -- AJ Liebling, the most quotable wit ever by-lined -- JA Macgahan, perpetrator of perhaps the greatest piece of reporting ever -- Hugh mcilvanney, the best writer ever to apply words to newsprint -- Ernie pyle, the reporter who never forgot who he was writing for -- William howard russell, the man who invented war corresponding -- George seldes, a reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty.
Includes index.
Keywords: Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Reporters and reporting -- United States -- History -- 20th century