Journalism of the Highest Realm

by Cole, Jaci; Hamilton, John Maxwell; Hoge, James F., Jr.; Bell, Edward Price

• ISBN13: 9780807132852
• ISBN10: 0807132853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

Once considered the "best American newspaperman London has ever had," Edward Price Bell (1869?1943) helped invent the ideal of a professional foreign news service at the late Chicago Daily News, which in its heyday had the second-largest daily newspaper circulation in the United States. At the turn of the twentieth century, professional overseas reporting was still an experiment. The Chicago Daily News owner and publisher Victor Lawson was uncertain how to organize the service or even what kind of news it should cover. Bell, who had distinguished himself as a young reporter in Chicago, became the anchor for the service when Lawson sent him to London in 1900. The course he set established the standard for the New York Times and other prestige newspapers. Cole and Hamilton have edited and annotated Bell's autobiography here, focusing on his lively account of the early days of the Chicago Daily News' foreign service as well as the dramatic stories his correspondents covered.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Note on Editorial Method	p. xliii
Author's Preface	p. 3
Prologue: "I'm Going to Be a Newspaper Man"	p. 5
The Early City Period, 1882-1898
Half a Writer at Last	p. 9
My Work for the Democrat	p. 18
On the Road for Another Job	p. 27
I Head an Editorial Autarchy	p. 35
As a Country Editor Saw It	p. 41
A Great Infidel Turns Christian	p. 46
I Meet a Girl in Black Pigtails	p. 53
The Chicago Period, 1898-1900
Blown Out of My Home Town	p. 63
War and Oratory on Leech Lake	p. 70
I Learn I'm a "White Nigger"	p. 80
Dug It Out of Barrel Houses	p. 90
I See "Democracy" in Action	p. 101
An Epochal Idea Oddly Born	p. 108
The Foreign Period, 1900-1922
Life Opens for Me in London	p. 117
More of Life's "Little Gleam" Abroad	p. 130
Our Fight for Side-Light News	p. 144
Luminaries of the British Press	p. 154
Northcliffe in My Own Finder	p. 165
I Go to Tea with Royalty	p. 177
Historic Pageantry of the News	p. 185
Two World-Rousing Interviews	p. 192
When My Hair Grayed a Bit	p. 202
The Six Letters to The Times	p. 212
The Great War, 1914-1919
Flying in the Great War	p. 225
What I Saw in the Ypres Salient	p. 236
A Lively Day on Vimy Ridge	p. 246
In the Thick of It at Bapaume	p. 256
The Peace-Seeking Period, 1919-1941
From War Trail to Peace Trail	p. 269
Peace-Seeking on Three Continents	p. 276
I Push On to the Far East, Economics, and Latin America	p. 285
I Bring MacDonald to America	p. 295
My Final Interviews for Peace	p. 306
War Again after Twenty Years	p. 315
Epilogue: Where Are Our Plans Built?	p. 322
"What, in Your Opinion, Is the Matter with the Service?"	p. 325
Sources	p. 331
Index	p. 341
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