Word: journalist
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This role of the press has constitutional guarantees and historical precedents. The first journalist with national impact was undoubtedly Thomas Paine, who emigrated to the Colonies from England in 1774 and found his calling: diarist of the Revolution. His pamphlets, independently published but genuine precursors of interpretive journalism, inflamed the colonists to revolt; Common Sense sold better than 300,000 copies, turned Tories into Whigs, and was read to troops standing at attention in the field...
...says Author Terrot. "The very horror of the crime," wrote a London editor, "was the chief seat of its persistence." After one reform bill was "talked out" of Parliament in the spring of 1885, the Pall Mall Gazette's W. T. (for William Thomas) Stead, a brilliant crusading journalist, published a four-part study entitled The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon that stunned the nation and appalled the world. The reform bill was reintroduced, rushed through Parliament, and became law in August...
Author Robert Crisp, a journalist in peacetime, describes a kind of war that would seem a surrealist's vision if his style were not so clear, his recollections not so firmly founded in painful reality. Before his war was over, Crisp had been wounded four times, had 17 tanks shot out from under him, and destroyed more than 40 of the enemy armor. He also picked up a D.S.O...
Died. Dudley Nichols, 64, onetime journalist (New York World) who brought care and skill to 30 years of writing and directing movies (The Informer, Stagecoach), adapted Mourning Becomes Electra for film and, at the insistence of his old friend, Eugene O'Neill, produced and directed it as well; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Papers of Benjamin Frankiin, Vol. 1, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. Philadelphia's journalist-gadgeteer-diplomat appears far livelier than his own homilies in this well-prepared collection that extends through his 28th year...