"Carol Sue Humphrey?s The American Revolution and the Press argues that newspapers played an important role during America?s struggle for independence by keeping Americans engaged in the war even when the fighting occurred in distant locales. From the moment that the colonials received word of Britain?s new taxes in 1764 until reports of the peace treaty arrived in 1783, the press constituted the major source of information about events and developments...

The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today: the attractions and the risks of the job; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger of journalistic independence being compromised by military control, censorship, and public relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. This new edition substantially updates the original,...