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Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps

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Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation’s capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services and products to the brave new world of the Web.
Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred within the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists–including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson –in addition to the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson to the two green Washington Post reporters who launched the political story of the decade–Woodward and Bernstein. We read of the upward push of radio news–fought tooth and nail by the print barons–and of such pioneers as Edward R. Murrow, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis. Ritchie also offers a vivid history of TV news, from the early days of Meet the Press, to Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, to the cable revolution led by C-SPAN and CNN. As well as, he compares political news at the Web to the alternative press of the ’60s and ’70s; describes how black reporters slowly broke into the white press corps (helped mightily by FDR’s White House); discusses path-breaking woman reporters such as Sarah McClendon and Helen Thomas, and a lot more.
From Walter Winchell to Matt Drudge, the individuals who cover Washington politics are some of the most colorful and influential in American news. Reporting from Washington offers an unforgettable portrait of these figures in addition to of the dramatic changes in American journalism within the twentieth century.

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