Before journalism schools : how Gilded Age reporters learned the rules

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Journalism in perspective : continuities and disruptionsPublication details: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press 2018.Description: xv, 175p. includes bibliograpy and indexISBN:
  • 9780826221599 - hbk
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 071.309/034
LOC classification:
  • PN4864 .S87 2018
Summary: 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.
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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.

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