Authors Eleanor Mills with Kira Cochrane have edited a new book, Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists available now from Carroll & Graf Publishers. MB has reprinted an excerpt of the book for your interest:

How does one define 'journalism'? The basic criteria for inclusion: the piece of writing should have been written for and first published in a newspaper or magazine. I wanted to reflect all the different sorts of articles in newspapers, so the anthology contains everything from first-hand accounts of battles, or events (such as Martha Gellhorn describing the horrors of Dachau or Ann Leslie witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall) to book and film reviews, comment pieces, interviews, pamphlets, fiction (Bridget Jones began in a newspaper as a fictional diary about a singleton's life) and more personal features. Although women can report 'objectively' as well as any man, what women have really brought to newspapers is a more confessional, intimate voice. The strong voices of clever women warming to their themes and giving up details of their own lives and experiences in order to do so, comes across very clearly in this book. I am proud to have included such groundbreaking articles as Ruth Picardie's column written as she was dying of cancer, which spawned a whole subspecies of confessionals in imitation.

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