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Broadway Play Plots Pro-War Columnist's Joe Alsop's Fall

dnewbold — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:53:47 +0000

A new production on Broadway, The Columnist, which ran April through June 2012, examines the life of famed Cold War–era journalist Joseph Alsop (1910-89), whose op-ed column "Matter of Fact" ran in hundreds of newspapers for nearly 40 …

Requiem for a Vietnam War Reporter - George Esper, 1932-2012

dnewbold — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:26:49 +0000

Esper doggedly covered the war from 1965 to its end, as North Vietnamese soldiers shuttered his Saigon AP bureau

Letter from Wild West - October 2009

David Lauterborn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:23:35 +0000

Print newsmen were the chroniclers of the the Old West, but now newspapers, too, are fading into history.

NBC News' The Wanted - An Interview with Roger D. Carstens

Gerald Swick — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:39:19 +0000

Roger D. Carstens, one of the investigators featured on The Wanted, a program from NBC News about tracking down terrorists, talks about the show, what he hopes it will accomplish, and how it helped him to personally find some closure.

Interview with Alex Kershaw

cnewman — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:40:16 +0000

Alex Kershaw’s latest book, Escape from the Deep, tells the suspense-driven story of the USS Tang, the high-killing navy submarine sunk by its own torpedo during a late 1944 “unrestricted warfare” run near Formosa.

The Whole World Is Listening: WHAS Radio Coverage of the 1937 Ohio River Flood

HistoryNet Staff — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:08:21 +0000

Coverage of the horrendous 1937 Ohio Valley floods by Louisville radio station WHAS was a seminal event in broadcasting history and established the modern tradition for reporting disasters.

George Smalley: Reporting from Battle of Antietam

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:18:10 +0000

New York Tribune reporter George Smalley scooped the world with his vivid account of the Battle of Antietam.

Jack London: Russo-Japanese War Correspondent

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:14:21 +0000

A winter in the Yukon seasoned Jack London for the hardships and rigors of reporting the Russo-Japanese War.

Covering D-Day: An Allied Journalist's Perspective

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:00:45 +0000

Allied journalists fought to cover the great moment in World War II and get the news back home.

Don North: An American Reporter Witnessed the VC Assault on the U.S. Embassy During the Vietnam War

HistoryNet Staff — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:59:20 +0000

An American reporter witnessed the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive -- and experienced firsthand the strain between the press and the military.