Journalists of the United States: Biographical Sketches of Print and Broadcast News Shapers from the Late 17th Century to the Present - Hardcover

Downs, Robert Bingham; Downs, Jane B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089950549X ISBN 13: 9780899505497

Publisher: McFarland Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

Hundreds of men and women who have shaped the news world throughout the course of U.S. history are in this book. Newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television are all covered. Also covered are illustrators, muckrakers, etiquette columnists, sports reporters, war correspondents, and others. Certain names stand out-Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly), Katharine Meyer Graham, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Luce, Samuel McClure, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Pulitzer, Edward Morrow-but many lesser known figures are included.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Nearly 600 print and broadcast journalists from the 1600s to the present are profiled in this informative and affordable collection of biographical sketches. It will supplement the highly selective Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on newspaper and magazine journalists and the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists ( LJ 6/1/86). It is rich in 18th and 19th century biography, but alas journalists of the "present" are only the most high-profile names. And even then, prominent persons such as Janet Chusmir and Katherine Fanning (mentioned only in the introduction), Nelson Poynter, John Sengstacke, etc., are omitted. Some entries run two pages, others are quite brief. The introduction contains short essays on censorship, women journalists, etc. Useful for ready reference, students can use this as a starting point for further historical research.
- Jo Cates, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Ill.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

"an informative and affordable collection" -- Library Journal

"dependable" -- Wilson Library Bulletin

"remarkably thorough" -- ARBA

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 089950549X
• ISBN 13: 9780899505497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391