American Journalists in the Great War

Rewriting the Rules of Reporting

Chris Dubbs

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780803285743
• eBook ISBN: 9781496200174
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War I
• Index: History

When war erupted in Europe in 1914, American journalists hurried across the Atlantic ready to cover it the same way they had covered so many other wars. However, very little about this war was like any other. Its scale, brutality, and duration forced journalists to write their own rules for reporting and keepingthe American public informed. American Journalists in the Great War tells the dramatic stories of the journalists who covered World War Iforthe American public. Chris Dubbs draws on personal accounts from contemporary newspaper and magazine articles and books to convey the experiences of the journalists of World War I, from the western front to the Balkans to the Paris Peace Conference. Their accounts reveal the challenges of finding the war news, transmitting a story, and getting it past the censors. Over the course of the war, reporters found that getting their scoop increasingly meant breaking the rules or redefining the very meaning of war news. Dubbs shares the courageous, harrowing, and sometimes humorous stories of the American reporters who risked their lives in war zones to record their experiences and send the news to the people back home.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Prelude to Armageddon
• 2. Learning to Report a World War
• 3. What Is an Atrocity?
• 4. The Central Powers Manage the News
• 5. Pushing the Limits of Reporting on the Western Front
• 6. The Front Door and Back Door to Russia
• 7. Gallipoli and Greece
• 8. A Revolution in the Midst of War
• 9. Credentialed with the AEF
• 10. After the Fighting
• Appendix
• A Word about Sources
• Bibliography
• Index
• About Chris Dubbs
• Series List