Overview
Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanc
- | Author: Carl R. Osthaus
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813160111
- | ISBN-13: 9780813160115
