Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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American journalists.
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Journalists-- United States, Biography, Juvenile literature.