A Journalist's Note-Book
A Journalist's Note-Book by Frank Frankfort Moore is available here as the complete text, split into 581 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Journalist's Note-Book by Frank Frankfort Moore. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #51952.
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A Journalist's Note-Book
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- Chapter I Past and Present
- Chapter II The Old School
- Chapter III The Editor of the Past
- Chapter IV The Unattached Editor
- Chapter V The Sub-Editors
- Chapter VI THE SUB-EDITORS (continued)
- Chapter VII Some Extinct Types
- Chapter VIII Men, Menus, and Manners
- Chapter IX On the Human Imagination
- Chapter X The Vegetarian and Others
- Chapter XI On Some Forms of Sport
- Chapter XII Some Reporters
- Chapter XIII The Subject of Reports
- Chapter XIV Ireland as a Field for Reporters
- Chapter XV Irish Trottings and Jottings
- Chapter XVI Irish Tourists and Trains
- Chapter XVII Honorary Editors and Others
- Chapter XVIII Outside the Lyceum Bill
- Chapter XIX Some Imperfect Studies
- Chapter XX On Some Forms of Cleverness
- Chapter XXI “So Careful of the Type.”
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- Journalism--respectability
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- Relation
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- Journalism--the
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- Abuse
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