An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profoundly changed the nation's thinking about civil rights in the South during the 1950s and '60s. Roberts and Klibanoff draw on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen--black and white--revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings that compelled its citizens to act. Meticulously researched and vividly rendered, The Race Beat is an extraordinary...
An unprecedented examination of how news stories, editorials and photographs in the American press--and the journalists responsible for them--profound...
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/, published by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, asking the crucial question: Are American communities - in the very middle of the so-called information explosion - in danger of becoming less informed than ever?
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/...
