American Journalists in the Great War: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803285743)

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. Its scale, brutality, and duration forced journalists to write their own rules for reporting and keeping the American public informed.

American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the journalists who covered World War I for the American public. Chris Dubbs draws on personal accounts from contemporary newspaper and magazine articles and books to convey the experiences of the journalists of World War I, from the western front to the Balkans to the Paris Peace Conference. Their accounts reveal the challenges of finding the war news, transmitting a story, and getting it past the censors. Over the course of the war, reporters found that getting their scoop increasingly meant breaking the rules or redefining the very meaning of war news. Dubbs shares the courageous, harrowing, and sometimes humorous stories of the American reporters who risked their lives in war zones to record their experiences and send the news to the people back home.


Author: Chris Dubbs
ISBN-10: 0803285744
ISBN-13: 9780803285743
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2017
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 127