The advent of newspapers made such reports accessible to a large number of people and William Howard Russell was the first modern war correspondent.
The Russo-Japanese War brought out the modern war correspondent; one A.P. man bought a yacht to cover the seige of Port Arthur.
In 1873 Stanley went to Asante (Ashanti; now part of modern Ghana) as war correspondent for the New York Herald and in 1874 published his Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa.
The framework allows not only for such sections as a history of the ship's construction, a journal by the Modern Times's Titanic correspondent and a letter from the "publisher," but also tabloidy questions that will entice readers: Did arrogance and greed doom the Titanic?
In early February, Washington Examiner editor Stephen G. Smith gushed over his new chief political correspondent, Byron York, calling him "a prototype of the modern journalist, equally at home in print, on television and on the Web".
His fourth and latest novel is a love story set amid western correspondents in modern Afghanistan and Iraq.
Then there is Morley Safer, the "60 Minutes" correspondent and modern-art basher, who recently said at a luncheon at the Guggenheim, "I have visited galleries on three occasions, and I never plan to go back".
The first war correspondent in the modern era was William Howard Russell of the Times, who was sent to cover the Crimean conflict when a British-led coalition fought an invading Russian army.
If it were possible to trace the beginning of the modern era of the war correspondent to one particular place and time, it would be a bridge over the Blauw Krantz river on November 15 , 1899
So it's worth recalling that Huhne is a journalist by trade too, albeit an economics journalist, the modern equivalent of the religious affairs correspondent.
