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Among chapters are those on the reporter who booked himself onto a ship likelyto be sunk by the Germans so he could report its torpedoing she was called outto a multiple shooting who interviewed 50 witnesses went back to the officeand wrote a Pulitzer Prizewinning story of 4000 words in two and a half hoursand was deemed useless by her teacher but who went on to become the greatestcrime reporter in history she feigned madness to get herself locked up in anasylum so she could expose its terrible conditions. Each profile tells of thereporters life and his or her major stories how they were obtained and theirimpact. Packed with anecdotes and inspiring accounts the book quotesextensively from each reporters work. It also includes an essay on the historyof reporting charting the technologies economics and attitudes that made itthe way it is from the invention of the telegraph to the Internet. «
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