Student Presentations
Purpose: To become familiar with some women who served as war correspondents. Understand how roles in combat journalism were limited and female participation was circumscribed by prevailing attitudes. Who are Nellie Bly, Martha Gellhorn and Flora Shaw? What styles did they use in reporting? What wars did they cover? What types of literary organizations allowed these women to publish? How would you describe their ‘voice?’ What are the differences between radio, print and photojournalism?
Required:
1). In class exercise: Construction of a byline, title and lead.
2). Jos Scharrer. The Journalist: The Jameson Raid * The Klondike Gold Rush * The Anglo Boer War * The Founding of Nigeria * Flora Shaw was there. Amazon Media. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. North Charleston, SC, 2014.
3). Background Review: The Boer Wars: BBC History. Professor Fransjohan Pretorius (last updated 2011-03-29)
4). Martha Gellhorn. The View from the Ground. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
Articles Written by Correspondents:
1). "Nellie Bly at the Scene of Slaughter Dead Strew Trenches." New York Evening Journal, December 12, 1914.
2). "Nellie Bly at the Front How Wounded are Cared for 10 Shots to Kill 10 Men." New York Evening Journal,
December 11, 1914.
3). Martha Gellhorn. "Dachau Experimental Murder," Collier's, June 23, 1945 p. 16+.
Also available at UNZ.org.
4). Dickey Chapelle. "Operation Squirrel: Algeria," In What's a Woman Doing Here?