Undaunted How Women Changed American Journalism Brooke Kroeger by Brooke Kroeger 9780525659143, 0525659145 instant download after payment.

Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, & Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered & long-forgotten woman journalists.

She explores the careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories & every conflict at home & abroad since before the Civil War, & she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, & Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

As Kroeger chronicles the lives of journalists & newsroom leaders in every medium, a larger story develops: the nearly two-centuries-old struggle for women’s rights. Here as well is the collective fight for equity from the gentle stirrings of the late 1800s through the legal battles of the 1970s to the #MeToo movement & today’s racial & gender disparities.

Undaunted unveils the huge & singular impact women have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.

BROOKE KROEGER was UN correspondent for Newsday, deputy metropolitan editor at New York Newsday, & for more than a decade a correspondent, editor, & bureau chief for UPI both at home & abroad. She is a professor emerita of journalism at New York University, where she taught from 1998 to 2021, & serves on the editorial board of American Journalism: A Journal of Media History. She is the author of five books.