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Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules

Journalism in Perspective

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Before Journalism Schools: How Gilded Age Reporters Learned the Rules

By: Randall S. Sumpter
Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
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Randall Sumpter questions the dominant notion that reporters entering the field in the late 19th century relied on an informal apprenticeship system to learn the rules of journalism. Drawing from the experiences of more than 50 reporters, he argues that cub reporters could and did access multiple sources of instruction, including autobiographies and memoirs of journalists, fiction, guidebooks, and trade magazines. Arguments for “professional journalism” did not resonate with the workaday journalists examined here. These news workers were more concerned with following a personal rather than a professional code of ethics, and implemented their own work rules. Some of those rules governed “delinquent” behavior. While scholars have traced some of the connections between beginning journalists and learning opportunities, Sumpter shows that much more can be discovered, with implications for understanding the development of journalistic professionalism and present-day instances of journalistic behavior.

The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

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