Discover the reporter who:
Booked himself onto a ship
likely to be sunk by the Germans so he could report it's torpedoing
Was called out to a multiple
shooting, who interviewed 50 witnesses, went back to the office and wrote
a Pulitzer prize-winning story of 4,000 words in two and a half hours
Was deemed useless by her
teacher but who went on to become the greatest crime reporter in history
Wrote a story the changed the
map of Europe
Single-handedly took on the tobacco
industry
Each profile describes the
reporter's life and major stories, how they were obtained, and their
impact. Packed with anecdotes, and inspiring accounts of difficulties
overcome, the book quotes extensively from each reporterıs work. There's
also a chapter on the history of reporting, charting the technologies and
attitudes that made it the way it is from the invention of the telegraph
to the Internet. The Great Reporters is not just the story of 13
remarkable people, it is the story of how societyıs information
hunter-gatherers succeed in bringing us all what we need to know.
'Entertaining, amusing, even inspirational. Above all, what every good
reporter aims to deliver, a great read.' Peter Cole, Professor of
Journalism at the University of Sheffield