In the beginning, newspapers were, as a rule, the property of their printers. “All communications should be addressed to the Printer” is a notice to be found in most of them. During the nineteenth century the Editor, who was also the principal writer, began to put the paper together. To-day there is an Editor-in-Chief who …
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
Matthew Goodman is the author of the book Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World. This book was released on the 26th of February and was published by Ballantine Books. Matthew Goodman’s book covers the race around the world between two women journalists of the period and their adventures as …
WWI Wednesday: The War Office and the Press
Excerpt from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. Callwell: The Press Bureau which was established at the commencement of the war was a civil department, entirely independent of the Admiralty and the War Office although it was in close touch with those institutions, as also with the Foreign Office, the Board of …