Chapter Two of Michael Schudson‘s “Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers” (see picture of Schudson below), discusses the bitterness between William Randolph Hearst and Richard Harding Davis over a story in Cuba (1897) where three Cuban women on an American ship was searched and stripped by male Spanish officials; Davis never states that the Cuban women were searched by men. Source: Wikipedia While, the Cuban women […]
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Not until the 1890s were reporters truly regarded as necessities to the newspaper world. Regardless of popular belief it was not the Civil War that set this new practice into motion. Journalism was already heading in a new direction, and it was the papers of New York that would ultimately take it there. The drama […]