TY - BOOK AU - Sumpter,Randall S.,1950- TI - Before journalism schools : : how Gilded Age reporters learned the rules SN - 9780826221599 - hbk AV - PN4864 .S87 2018 U1 - 071.309/034 PY - 2018/// CY - Columbia, Missouri PB - University of Missouri Press KW - 1. Journalism KW - History KW - 2. Journalism United States History 19th century KW - 3. Reporters and reporting United States History 19th N2 - 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 ER -