Great Reporters

David Randall was a British journalist and author who was chief news writer of the Independent on Sunday and was news editor of three national newspapers.

• IntroductionHow the great reporters were chosen1. The World of the ReporterHow, when and where the job has changed in 150 years2. Meyer BergerThe reporters’ reporter3. Nellie BlyThe best undercover reporter in history4. Edna BuchananThe best crime reporter there’s ever been 5. James CameronThe definitive foreign correspondent6. Richard Harding DaviesOne of the best descriptive reporters ever7. Floyd GibbonsThe supreme example of a reporter in pursuit of an assignment8. Ann LeslieThe most versatile reporter ever9. AJ LieblingThe most quotable wit ever by-lined10. JA MacGahanPerpetrator of perhaps the greatest piece of reporting ever11. Hugh McIlvanneyThe best writer ever to apply words to newsprint12. Ernie PyleThe reporter who never forgot who he was writing for13. William Howard RussellThe man who invented war corresponding14. George SeldesA reporter who got up the noses of the high and mightyIndex

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