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.
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.
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.".
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.
how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death
Solomon, Norman
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.
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.
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.