The Press: Modern Reporting

The days of jumping on a streetcar and going down to a fire on Elm Street are not passed yet for newspaper reporters, but reporters nowadays have to be equipped for many other jobs as well. Two news stories that "broke" last week show the emergencies with which reporters have to cope.

ΒΆ One stormy morning the Shenandoah cruising across southern Ohio was suddenly seized by contending winds, and snapped in two like a straw between their fingers. By noon of that day airplanes carrying reporters and cameramen were speeding towards the scene...

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