AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781107108301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 375 str.

Giovanna Dell'orto

Opis

Through extended portraits of AP foreign correspondents, this book documents the practices and constraints shaping international news since World War II.

Recenzje

'From the grave to the gratuitous, Associated Press (AP) foreign correspondents have told the story of the world beyond US borders. Giovanna Dell'Orto's study of reporting practices abroad underscores the significance of the AP, which has evolved from its origins in 1846 to today's journalistic giant providing news to roughly half the world's population via two thousand stories per day. Historians will find much to ponder in Dell'Orto's work … The book is a useful reminder to historians of just what it takes to get history's first draft: journalists who believe so strongly in the worth of their labor that they risk their own lives and - occasionally and with regret - those of their sources to get the story that decades later historians may ponder in relative safety. It also functions as a rejoinder to those who would whip up popular enmity against journalists for political gain.' Benjamin Cawthra, H-War

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Getting ready, getting started, and getting lost in translation; 3. What's the story? News judgment, news pitches; 4. Getting to the sources (and keeping them alive); 5. Being an American abroad – perceptions of journalists; 6. Eyewitness reporting: getting to the scene; 7. The costs of being there to count the bodies; 8. Your byline today, mine tomorrow: teamwork and competition; 9. Access, censorship, and spin: relating with foreign governments; 10. Flacks, spooks, and objective journalists: relating with the US government abroad; 11. Getting it out, getting it edited: filing news and handling editors; 12. The evolving milkmen: writing for an audience; 13. Purpose and influence of foreign correspondence; 14. Eight decades of bearing witness and telling the world's stories: conclusions.