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Sixty Years of Journalism; Anecdotes and Reminiscences
Sixty Years of Journalism Anecdotes and Reminiscences Author:Harry Findlater Bussey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: J.W. Arrowsmith Subjects: Journalists Journalism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acce... more »ss to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MANCHESTER DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR MR. BRIGHT REFUSED A HEARING. I next obtained an engagement on the Manchester Examiner and Times, then about to be converted from a bi-weekly to a daily paper. This was in 1854 during the Crimean War. The Examiner was owned by a co-partnery, which included Mr. John Bright, at that period member for ' Manchester; Mr. Henry Rawson, a gentleman of means and influence in the city ; Mr. Findlay, proprietor of a large tailoring establishment in St. Anne's Square ; and Mr. Ireland, the managing director. Although Manchester was not so large and flourishing a city in those days as it has since become, the work done by the reporting staff was much more arduous than it is now, partly because, in the absence of the enormous telegraphic correspondence received at the present time from all parts of the world, greater attention was paid to local details, so that reports, which are now compressed within narrow limits, in those days would cover an amplitude of space. The country newspapers then, as now, could boast some first-rate journalists, and one ofmy Manchester colleagues performed, I remember, one of the most marvellous reporting feats that have come under my cognizance. I refer to Mr. Roger Acton, subsequently for many years a valued member of the staff of the Illustrated News. Acton was a good Italian scholar, writing and speaking that language with the fluency of a native. On one . occasion he was sent to report a lecture by Father Gavazzi, the eloquent Italian patriot, who was touring England on behalf...« less