Newspaper Reporting (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... The mention of the Press Association, established in 1868 by a syndicate of newspaper proprietors lor the supply of news, reminds one of the best known journalistic figure connected with it--Mr. Walter Hepburn. His skill as a reporter, his wide and varied experience, and his high personal qualities, have won for him the respect and regard of all connected with the profession. Statesmen are proud to acknowledge him. No Gladstone visit is complete without him; indeed, the leader of the Liberal Party, referring not long ago to the work of pressmen in relation to politics, spoke of Mr. Hepburn as " my esteemed friend." 'Ape, ' of Vanity Fair, who would study a member in the lobby for an hour or two, and then go home to draw those marvellous likenesses." The reporters' gallery, which has been the scene of many changes during the present century, is now threatened with a novel invasion. Women have lately, for the good or evil of the country, entered into competition with men. They have become typewriters, workers of the telegraph and the telephone, clerks, printers, commercial travellers, doctors, dabblers in education, literature, and politics. One of their latest fields of enterprise is that of journalism; and they are quite prepared to describe a fashionable wedding or a Royal visit, to attend an execution or go at a moment's notice to the seat of war, to criticise the Government at home in big type, or to settle the Eastern Question in a column "leader." There is no telling to what altitude their pertinacity and feminine ambition may lift them. It is possible that before the new century grows old England may have a female Prime Minister, and be defended by an Amazonian army. Women already take part in our local government--they may...