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Fearless female journalists

2010
Profiles ten female journalists who have taken risks to report news and succeed in the field, including Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Nellie Bly, Doris Anderson, Farida Nekzad, Thembi Ngubane, and Katie Couric.

Betsy and the great world

1952
Betsy goes to Europe in 1913 to gather materials for her career as a writer. War breaks out in Europe and Betsy returns home.

Women of the world

the great foreign correspondents
1988
Recounts the daring exploits and experiences of female foreign correspondents.

Lydia

a novel
1987
Fourteen-year-old Lydia, always keen to espouse controversial issues, gets varying degrees of support from her three sisters when she forms an alternative school newspaper and campaigns in favor of letting girls try out for the football team.

Sydney, invincible

1995
If having a mother for a teacher and being assigned editor of the school newspaper were not enough crises in her life, Sydney deals with feelings of confusion when her newlywed mother becomes pregnant. Sequel to "Sydney, Herself.".

A splendid little war

1989
Olive Dunford, a young woman of strong opinions, firmly believes America should intervene in what she sees as the mistreatment of the people of Cuba at the hands of Spain, and does not hesitate to share her views in her newspaper column, but she is shocked to discover the effect of her words in her own family.

War made easy

how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death
2005
Explores the various ways that presidents have led America into war since the mid-1960s, and examines how they were able to justify and retain public support for war.

All the president's men

1976
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.

It can't be done, Nellie Bly!

a reporter's race around the world
2003
In 1888, a young, female reporter for New York World newspaper sets out to travel around the world in fewer than eighty days, while a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter tries to beat her to the goal.

It's Halloween, you 'fraidy mouse!

2004
After Geronimo Stilton who runs a newspaper is coaxed by his nephew Benjamen to go to a cemetery to do research on his current book, he encounters Creepella von Cacklefur who succeeds in locking Geronimo in a coffin.

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