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Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists: The Newseum's Most Intriguing Newspeople - Hardcover

 
9780812930801: Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists: The Newseum's Most Intriguing Newspeople

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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.

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Eric Newton is a Pulitzer Prize--winning newspaper editor, a writer, and a teacher. As Newseum managing editor, he coordinates the content of the world's first museum of news. When Newton was managing editor of The Oakland Tribune, the newspaper won more than 150 awards with the most diverse newsroom in the United States. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Mary Ann Hogan, and sons William and James. He also has edited Is the Pope Catholic?, The Bay Area at War, and The Open Newspaper.

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coundrels, 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.
Great journalism has a rich past. So does lousy journalism. 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.

Hear them talk about how and why they do what they do:
"Telegraph fully all news...and when there is no news send rumors."
--Wilbur Storey

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."
--Robert Capa

"Even more than the words, the way the words are said

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