Abstract
Breaking News, an engrossing volume of facts, figures, anecdotes, historical trivia, high drama and compelling narrative, tracks the history of the great American agency, AP, from its birth in 1846. What was originally a groundbreaking telegraph-based news syndicate for the press has developed into a multimedia global digital network supplying outlets world wide with high-speed information. But it is as an advertisement for the trade of journalism that the book functions best, with many pictures of correspondents in action most surely that will fire the imagination of students everywhere. Randomly chosen for their composition and impact, the two photographs reproduced bridge the end of the Second World War and the mess that was developing in Vietnam towards the late 1960s. Photographer Henry Griffin is the cine cameraman at work in Berlin after the city was captured by the Soviet army in May 1945, and correspondent Kelly Smith, from the Agency’s Washington bureau, is shown aboard a Huey helicopter over the Central Highlands of Vietnam in August 1967.
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