Reporters traveling with military units did not start with the Iraq War. One of the first reporters who traveled with and reported about the military unity he was with was Richard Harding Davis. Richard Harding Davis had his first reporting job when he was working for the Philadelphia Record. His stories were those we would consider investigative […]
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Where would the first amendment be without John Peter Zenger?
Posted by: bellen | September 22, 2010 | No Comment |There is no free society without a free press. Why were James Madison and George Mason adamant that freedom of the press was necessary in the newly formed America? They may have remembered the trial of John Peter Zenger. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who was a printer. He supported himself mainly by […]
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Tags: bellen, Ellen Black, John Peter Zenger, Press freedom, reporters, reporting
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 […]