Introduction
How the great reporters were chosen
1. The World of the Reporter
How, when and where the job has changed in 150 years
2. Meyer Berger
The reporters’ reporter
3. Nellie Bly
The best undercover reporter in history
4. Edna Buchanan
The best crime reporter there’s ever been
5. James Cameron
The definitive foreign correspondent
6. Richard Harding Davis
One of the best descriptive reporters ever
7. Floyd Gibbons
The supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment
8. Ann Leslie
The most versatile reporter ever
9. AJ Liebling
The most quotable wit ever by-lined
10. JA MacGahan
Perpetrator of perhaps the greatest piece of reporting ever
11. Hugh McIlvanney
The best writer ever to apply words to newsprint
12. Ernie Pyle
The reporter who never forgot who he was writing for
13. William Howard Russell
The man who invented war corresponding
14. George Seldes
A reporter who got up the noses of the high and mighty
