Before journalism schools : how Gilded Age reporters learned the rules
Sumpter, Randall S., 1950-
Before journalism schools : how Gilded Age reporters learned the rules - Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press 2018. - xv, 175p. includes bibliograpy and index - Journalism in perspective : continuities and disruptions .
Questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late nineteenth century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than fifty reporters, Randall Sumpter argues that cub reporters could and did access multiple sources of instruction.
9780826221599 - hbk
1. Journalism--History
2. Journalism United States History 19th century
3. Reporters and reporting United States History 19th
PN4864 / .S87 2018
071.309/034
Before journalism schools : how Gilded Age reporters learned the rules - Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press 2018. - xv, 175p. includes bibliograpy and index - Journalism in perspective : continuities and disruptions .
Questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late nineteenth century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than fifty reporters, Randall Sumpter argues that cub reporters could and did access multiple sources of instruction.
9780826221599 - hbk
1. Journalism--History
2. Journalism United States History 19th century
3. Reporters and reporting United States History 19th
PN4864 / .S87 2018
071.309/034