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Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else

by Associated Press

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ISBN13: 9781568986890
ISBN10: 1568986890
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The Associated Press throws open its archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking reporting that made the AP the worlds largest news organization.

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The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with Custer at his 'last stand' against the Sioux. The Honolulu bureau chief who looked up from his breakfast table to see Japanese planes flying low and called San Francisco, managing to dictate a single paragraph before all communications to the mainland were cut. The Saigon bureau chief who served Coca-Cola and pound cake to three North Vietnamese soldiers before writing the bulletin announcing the fall of Saigon. These are but a few of the gripping and dramatic stories reported first by the Associated Press in the past century and a half.

In How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, the Associated Press throws open its archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking reporting on presidents, elections, wars, civil rights, trials and crimes, disasters, business, and major sports events. The book conveys, through personal accounts, archival materials, interviews, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographs, how the AP became the world's largest news organization and how it continues to play a vital role in providing the news to the American and international press. Breaking News makes an original and significant contribution to journalism history by shedding light on the nation's primary newswire service, one that reaches one half of the world daily and upon which virtually every serious newspaper and broadcast outlet in the nation has relied for decades.

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ISBN:
9781568986890
Subtitle:
How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else
Author:
Associated Press
Foreword:
Halberstam, David
Author:
Reporters of the Associated Press
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Journalism
Subject:
Press
Subject:
Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Subject:
Associated Press
Subject:
Press -- United States.
Subject:
Journalism -- United States.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
June 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
10.32x8.34x1.52 in. 3.84 lbs.

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