The Young Man and Journalism

by Chester Sanders Lord

INDEX

• Abbott, Lyman, [89]
• Acta Diurna, [197]
• Addison, Joseph, [89]
• Arnold, Sir Edward to Tennyson, [64]
• Barnato, Barnard, [110]
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [93], [173]
• Bowles, Samuel, [91], [148]
• Brisbane, Arthur, [174]
• Bryant, William Cullen, [147]
• Burleigh, Lord, [200]
• Butler, Samuel, [55]
• Butter, Nathaniel, [202]
• Cary, Henry N., [201]
• Cable, Costs, [107], [112], [190]
• Censorship, [164]
• Chaucer, [65]
• Christian Science Monitor, The, [89]
• City Editor, The, [2]
• Conquests, the public’s great interest in any kind of a fight, [97]
• Copy Readers, [29], [35]
• Correspondent, the Washington, [10], [12]
• Correspondent, the Foreign, [112]
• Corbett, James, [97]
• Courant, The London, [205]
• Crooke, William, [18]
• Dana, Charles Anderson, his fine leadership, [48];
• • great as an editor, [61];
  • advice to his Managing Editor, [62];
  • on hasty editorial writing, [80];
  • on making the Sun talked about, [94]
• Dickens, Charles, experience as a reporter, [16]
• Edison, first public test of the household electric light, [13]
• Editorial writer, The, [76], [78]
• Editorial council, The, [79]
• Editor in chief, The, [79]
• Editor, letters to, [80]
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [52]
• Exaggeration, where it may be tolerated, [70]
• Field, Eugene, [148]
• Field, William H., [194]
• Fiske, John, [181]
• Forney, Colonel John W., [35]
• Fourth Estate, The, [119]
• France, Anatole, [68]
• Froude, James Anthony, [148]
• Gazette, The Peking, [197]
• Gazette, The London, [206]
• George, Lloyd, [111]
• Gladden, Washington, [157]
• Gosse, Edmund, [56]
• Gray, [55]
• Greeley, Horace, [61], [91], [94], [147]
• Harris, W. W., [216]
• Hay, John, [148]
• Halsted, Murat, [148]
• Hearn, Lafcadio, [53], [55], [89], [172]
• Hearst, William R., [88]
• Heenan, John C., [97]
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [148]
• Howells, W. D., [148]
• Imitation, its repressive influence against a writer’s advancement, [135]
• Irving, Washington, [65]
• Jefferson, Thomas, [148]
• Jenkins, how he got a job as reporter, [18]
• Johnson, Samuel, [56], [173]
• Journal, The New York, [101]
• Lauzanne, Stéphane, [149]
• Lee, James Melvin, [201]
• Lestrange, Roger, [206]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [159]
• Macaulay, T. B., [55], [71], [202]
• Machiavelli, [59]
• Mahin, John Lee, [211]
• Mail, London Daily, [185]
• Managing Editor, [46]–[49]
• Medill, Joseph, [148]
• Nelson, Colonel William Rockhill, [15]
• Newspaper, the modern, made with bewildering speed, [43]
• Newspaper, the village, its opportunities for community service, [130]
• Newspaper specialties, those embracing politics and finance the most important, [180]
• Newspapers, indispensable to republican or representative form of government. The government speaks to the people through them, [161]
• News, local, does not exist in New York City; all important in the village, [140]
• Northcliffe, Lord, [173], [175]
• Observator, The, [206]
• Ochs, Adolph S., [91]
• Patriot, The Fulton, N. Y., [130]
• Pendleton, John, [12], [199]
• Policy, newspaper, its reversal is dangerous to its prosperity, [91]
• Price, Charles W., [117]
• Proof reading, [40]
• Publications, technical and class, [119]
• Pulitzer, Joseph, [87]
• Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, [54], [158]
• Reid, Whitelaw, [94]
• Reporter, his beginnings and progress, [1]–[9];
• • the political, [8]–[10];
  • his unpleasant tasks, [22]
• Reporters, first announcements of great events made by, [13]
• Review, The, [205]
• Roosevelt, Theodore, [31]
• Rossetti, [55]
• Sainte Beuve, [56]
• Saintsbury, George, [53]
• Salaries, newspaper, [146]
• Sayers, Tom, [97]
• Scott, Sir Walter, [55]
• Seitz, Don, [102]
• Sensationalism, wherein harmful, [103]
• Smith, Sidney, [70]
• Spectator, The, [205]
• Stead, William T., [67]
• Syndicate service, [138]
• System, [121]
• Sun, The Evening, [102]
• Talleyrand, [25]
• Tatler, The, [205], [206]
• Thackeray, William M., [174]
• Times, The New York, [91]
• Times, The London, [187]
• Titanic, steamship, loss of: how reported, [44]
• Tolstoy, [55]
• Tribune, The Chicago, [91]
• Tribune, The New York, [91]
• Victorian Literature, Era of, [83]
• Village, the American, its newspaper opportunities, [132]
• War, its supreme interest to newspaper readers, [99]
• Weather, the: its importance and interest to the reader, [100]
• Webster, Noah, [148]
• Wells, H. G., [17]
• West, Dean, [67]
• Whitman, Walt, [148]
• Whittier, John G., [148]
• Wilson, Woodrow, [58], [69], [159], [162]
• Writer, The, [60]

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Transcriber’s Note:

Punctuation has been standardised. Spelling and hyphenation have been retained as published in the original publication except as follows:

• • Page 3
    everything happens in New York than can changed to
    everything happens in New York [that] can
  • Page 47
    or off Montauk Point: judgment whether changed to
    or off Montauk [Point;] judgment whether
  • Page 60
    better expresed by changed to
    better [expressed] by
  • Page 89
    kind to whom lacrimose emotion changed to
    kind to whom [lachrymose] emotion
  • Page 94
    who succeded Greeley as editor changed to
    who [succeeded] Greeley as editor
  • Page 102
    exaggeration and breathless anouncement changed to
    exaggeration and breathless [announcement]
  • Page 111
    opinion as to the propects for peace changed to
    opinion as to the [prospects] for peace
  • Page 198
    sent as governor to Cilica changed to
    sent as governor to [Cilicia]
  • Page 219
    accounts the letters from Edinburg changed to
    accounts the letters from [Edinburgh]
  • Page 236
    Gazette, The Pekin changed to
    Gazette, The [Peking]
  • Page 220
    Lausanne, Stéphane changed to
    [Lauzanne], Stéphane