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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, US Army Chief of Staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II--the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency. Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of the...
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 543 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book investigates how Atlanta's most important newspaper, the Daily Intelligencer, covered the Civil War in its news articles, editorial columns, and related items in its issues of April 1861-April 1865. Authors Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick show how the Intelligencer reported the war's important events based on the news it received, at what points the paper (and the Confederate press, generally) got the facts right or wrong, and how the paper's...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's...
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