Steven M. Hallock

Reporters Who Made History (eBook, ePUB)

Great American Journalists on the Issues and Crises of the Late 20th Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks back at the last half of the 20th century through the work and reminiscences of ten of the era's preeminent journalists.

Reporters Who Made History: Great American Journalists on the Issues and Crises of the Late 20th Century looks at a series of extraordinary chapters in the American story through the eyes of ten giants of journalism: Helen Thomas, Anthony Lewis, Morley Safer, Earl Caldwell, Ben Bradlee, Georgie Anne Geyer, Ellen Goodman, Juan Williams, David Broder, and Judy Woodruff.

Taking each of these journalists in turn, Hallock focuses on his or her work in the course of a single decade, drawing on the author's interviews with the journalist, archival research, memoirs, and critical studies. These exemplars of the best postwar American news reporting never took the easy path of simply restating policies and uncritically regurgitating press releases. Instead, their skeptical, independent, and searching methods of investigative and analytical journalism actually influenced the course of the very events they covered and significantly shaped our understanding of our national past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216138570
• Artikelnr.: 70037590

Autorenporträt

Steven M. Hallock is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is a 30-year veteran newspaper journalist, serving most recently as managing editor of three daily newspapers in Ohio. He has been an editorial page editor, features editor, and writer at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Idaho, Arizona, and Wyoming.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Patrick S. Washburn Preface Acknowledgments 1 Onto the World
Stage 2 The '50s of Anthony Lewis and Helen Thomas: Reds and Blacks and
Peace 3 The '60s of Morley Safer and Earl Caldwell: War and Protests and
Assassinations and Civil Rights 4 The '70s of Ben Bradlee and Georgie Anne
Geyer: Scandal and Peace with Honor and Foreign Intrigue 5 The '80s of Juan
Williams and Ellen Goodman: Reagan and Fallen Empire and Values 6 The '90s
of David Broder and Judy Woodruff: Clinton and Monica and Political Divide
7 Like the Times, the Industry Is a-Changin' Afterword Index