Journalism

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">In 1938 the European correspondent for CBS was in Austria when the Nazis marched in. He wanted to tell the world about it—but first he had to help invent a whole new kind of broadcasting.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A distinguished journalist and former presidential adviser says that, to find the meaning of any news story, we must dig for its roots in the past.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A little-known ancestor of the nightly news comes to light</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The GIs came home to find that a political machine had taken over their Tennessee county. What they did about it astounded the nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The 20s and 30s saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. Those methods have not been forgotten.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Westmoreland and Sharon embarked on costly lawsuits to justify their battlefield judgments. They might have done much better to listen to Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Civil War ignited the basic conflict between a free press and the need for military security. By war’s end, the hard-won compromises between soldiers and journalists may not have provided all the answers, but they had raised all the modern questions.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A veteran reporter looks back to a time when the stakes were <span class="typestyle"> really</span> high, and, yet, military men actually trusted newsmen. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">We talk about it constantly and we arrange our lives around it. So did our parents; and so did the very first colonists. But it took Americans a long time to understand their weather, and we still have trouble getting it right.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The urge to create literature was as strong in the mid-1800s as it is today, but rejections were brutal and the pay was even worse.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Extraordinary correspondence, never published before, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and—always—battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A knowledgeable and passionate guide takes us for a walk down Wall Street, and we find the buildings there eloquent of the whole history of American finance</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> So big was the leak that it might have caused us to lose World War II. So mysterious is the identity of the leaker that we can’t be sure to this day who it was…or at least not entirely sure.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The early critics of television predicted that the new medium would make Americans passively obedient to the powers-that-be. But they badly underestimated us.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The distasteful questions we ask our presidential hopefuls serve a real purpose.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">To keep Upton Sinclair from becoming governor of California in 1934, his opponents invented a whole new kind of campaign.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1820, their daily existence was practically medieval; 30 later, many of them were living the modern life.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Since the birth of the nation, the public’s perception of the quality of public schools has swung from approval to dismay and back again. Here, an eminent historian traces the course of school reform and finds that neither conservative nor liberal movements ever fully achieve their aims, which may be just as well.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> H. T. Webster’s cartoons offer a warm, canny, and utterly accurate view of an era of everyday middle-class life</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">It took us longer to name the war than to fight it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He wanted only what every journalist of the time did: an exclusive interview with the Duke of Windsor. What he got was an astonishing proposition that sent him on an urgent, top-secret visit to the White House and a once-in-a-lifetime story that was too hot to print, until now.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">America’s first Miss Lonely hearts advised generations of anxious lovers in the newspaper column that started it all.</span></p>

<p>William Randolph Hearst was a journalist, politician, art collector, and bon vivant with a passion for power, possessions, and women. </p>

<p><span class="deck">In the infancy of television (but not of American royalty-worship), the networks fought their first all-out battle for supremacy over who would get to show Queen Elizabeth II being crowned.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The mysterious apotheosis of the newspaper editor</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Their unwilling subjects considered the tabloid photographers pushy and boorish. But they felt they were upholding a grand democratic tradition.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The American newspaper: beleaguered by television, hated both for its timidity and its arrogance, biased, provincial, overweening, and still indispensable. A Hearst veteran tells how it got to where it is today, and where it may be headed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The most powerful columnist who ever lived single-handedly made our current culture of celebrity, and then was destroyed by the tools he had used to build it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An Interview with Walter Cronkite</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Seen in its proper historical context, amid the height of the Cold War, the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination looks much more impressive and its shortcomings much more understandable.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">He may have been the greatest caricaturist of all time; he has imitators to this day. But his true passion was for a very different discipline.</span></p>

<p>A newsman returns to a classic work by a famous predecessor and finds that Mark Sullivan’s vanished America has something to tell us.</p>

<p><span class="deck">He was a Northerner. He was an industrialist. He was a Jew. And a young girl was murdered in his factory.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> A VETERAN JOURNALIST</lead_in> reflects on how public discourse has been tarnished by the press’s relentless war against presidents, including his own biggest offense.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What you <span class="typestyle"> don’t</span> remember about the day JFK was shot </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Charles Saxon's cartoons are a definitive record of upper-class suburban life in the 1960s and ’70s.</span></p>

<p>The late David Halberstam was a journalist, heart and soul, with a distinctive way of writing history.</p>

<p>Seventy-five years ago this June, the celebrated writer for <em>The New Yorker</em> was one of the first journalists to witness the carnage on Omaha Beach.</p>

<p>Nearly 1800 newspapers have died since 2004, creating “news deserts” across the country. At many remaining journals, cuts have been so deep that they've become “ghost papers.” What are the implications for democracy?</p>

<p>Not given credit for their work and paid half a man's salary, women writers won a landmark suit against discrimination at the magazines of Time, Inc., but their success has been largely overlooked.</p>

<p>FDR waged his own war on "fake news," specifically on the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> publisher Robert R. McCormick.</p>

<p>Facebook and Google have repeatedly blocked <em>American Heritage's</em> content because they can't tell the difference between Russian trolls and a trusted, award-winning magazine.</p>

<p>Newsboys in antebellum New York and elsewhere were embroiled in all the major conflicts of their day, becoming mixed metaphors for enterprise and annoyance. </p>