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“The light from Liberty’s torch”: World, April 12, 1896, 29.
“Give me two ounces” and the rest of the quotations about the scene: World, June 21, 1896, 17.
“Byronic fashion” and other quotations from this article: World, August 9, 1896, 30.
“Semaphore” and other examples of code: Cable Code Book used by H. A. Jenks, New York, ca. 1906, Box 40, CUWP.
“I hope you are satisfied”: Pulitzer to Norris, June 15, 1896, Box 1, Folder 1896, CUPP.
“There was never before anywhere”: Sun, October 21, 1896, 6.
“I used to go to my hotel”: Black, “Rambles, Part II,” 218.
“guttural snarl” and other quotations from this article: San Francisco Examiner, June 5, 1892, 13.
“fairy bareback rider”: World, March 8, 1896.
“These women are fiercer than the men”: New York Journal, March 14, 1896, 2.
“Shakespearean ballet” and “a chorus of women reporters”: Times, March 28, 1897, 5.
“the furious exploitation of crime” and other quotations from this article: Chicago Times-Herald, quoted in Sun, March 27, 1896, 6.
“If any girl who reads this is ever tempted”: Willard, Occupations, 290.
“intruding their individuality on the public” and other quotations from this article: Times-Democrat, April 12, 1896, 22–23.
Chapter 14: A Smear of Yellow (1896–1897)
“And behold a Transformation!” Banks, Autobiography, 297.
“Oh, no; I am not going” and other quotations from this interview: New York Journal, October 14, 1896, 12.
“financial catastrophe”: Banks, Autobiography, 195.
“sunlight, sparkling on a dome of gold”: Ibid., 197.
“the most difficult, the most enterprising”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 340.
“Hundreds of them passed”: Ross, Ladies, 24.
“You’ll have to write”: Finch Kelly, Flowing Stream, 138.
“clamour of the stunting sisterhood” and “its daring and unsavory exploits”: Ibid., 458–59.
“My book will not go because”: Elizabeth Banks to Wm. Morris Colles, December 11, 1901, UTBP.
“But one thing troubles me”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 335.
“Gotham’s Great Epidemic” and other quotations from this article: Indianapolis Journal, February 4, 1897, 2.
“that prurient desire of knowing”: “prurient, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 31, 2020. Web.
“The smartest ancient rhetorical theorists”: Beard, Women, 41.
“In many institutions where the World and Journal” and “pernicious and unclean newspapers”: Sun, March 10, 1897, 1.
“the respect and confidence of the public” and “the notion that we are”: Pulitzer to Norris, August 21, 1897, Box 1, Folder 1897 July, LCPP.
“the wilds of Virginia” and “‘Men! . . . why, if I sent a man”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 336.
“delicate, feminine appearance” and other quotations from this scene: Banks, Autobiography, 209–11.
“breaking down under a very great”: Quoted in Banks, Remaking, xxxiii.
“I had forgotten that you were interested” and other quotations from this scene: Banks, Autobiography, 225.
“When the educated man of special training”: New York Journal, July 4, 1897, 13.
“You, men, take care of the situation”: Prados-Torreira, Mambisas, 139.
“shy, dark-eyed Cuban maiden”: New York Journal, October 17, 1897, 45.
“Mrs. Victoria Earle Matthews who was once a slave” and other quotations from this page: New York Journal, August 15, 1897, 12.
“none are more popular”: Penn, Afro-American Press, 375.
“America’s great epic”: Matthews, “Cedar Hill,” 2–4.
“The Value of Race Literature” and quotations from the speech: Matthews, Value.
“Yes I had seen The Hon.”: Victoria Earle Matthews to Frederick Douglass, August 3, 1894, LCDP.
“torn and disordered”: Quoted in Washington, Papers, 362.
“motherhood and womanhood” and “the same standards of morality”: “Colored Woman’s Congress.”
“When I speak of the colored people”: Matthews, “Redemption,” 57.
“fearlessly and unobserved” and “her personality and natural”: Davis, Lifting, 21–22.
“If you are going to try to exist”: Evening World, December 9, 1888, 5.
“No working girl can live comfortably”: Ibid.
“As the days and the weeks went on”: Banks, Autobiography, 215.
“self-assertive and combative disposition”: Ibid., 204.
“Above the boards and councils”: New York Journal, December 3, 1897, 6.
“timid and dull, as bankrupt”: New York Journal, December 31, 1897, 8.
“Chief much broken”: Alfred Butes to John Norris, December 31, 1897, Box 1, Folder 1897 December, LCPP.
Chapter 15: All Together in New Bedford (1898)
“came from the Atlantic, Pacific”: Melville, Moby Dick, 28.
“Friend Doll” and other quotations from this letter: Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, July 19, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.
“It is a hard struggle” and other quotations from this letter are from Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, August 20, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.
“baby being then considerably older”: Frank Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, May 10, 1892, MHSDP.
“I don’t think I shall ever be content”: Eva McDonald Valesh to Albert Dollenmayer, July 19, 1891, Folder: Letters 1891, MHSDP.
“She was the most selfish”: Reminiscences of Eva MacDonald Valesh: Oral History, 1952. A letter from her sister is included in the copy held at the Minnesota Historical Society.
“loss of self respect”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.
“an impossible assignment” and other quotations about reporting this suicide story: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.
“terror of work, of monotony”: New York Journal, September 2, 1897, 5.
“I want an exclusive story”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.
“She has good looks to recommend her”: New York Journal, September 2, 1897, 5.
“suicide editor” and “it was gruesome work”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.
“these things must be done artistically”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.
“By taking these liberties”: Kois, “Facts,” https://slate.com/culture/2012/02/the-lifespan-of-a-fact-essayist-john-dagata-defends-his-right-to-fudge-the-truth.html.
“a great paper has a duty” and “may wield an enormous”: Star Tribune, November 6, 1898, 27.
“Of course, we are a bit sensational” and other quotations from this scene: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.
“A man, you see”: WLHBH.
“Sit down!” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.
“the Journal’s special commissioner to the cotton strike”: New York Journal, January 19, 1898, 1.
“The woes of the 4,000 women”: WLHBH.
“Grim Silence Everywhere”: Ibid.
“her ragged gown about her” and “The New England mill operatives”: Ibid.
“unutterable degradation—the degradation”: Ibid.
“a howling wind might blow”: Ibid.
“Yesterday’s story was mainly”: Ibid.
“a few degrees lower, if such a thing”: Ibid.
“America’s a cruel country”: Ibid.
“Could you suggest any other plan”: Ibid.
“Her bravery is not”: Ibid.
“I will not be fined”: Ibid.
“interesting and unique personality” and “roused all England”: Ibid.
“who obtained situations in the homes”: Ibid.
“a friend of the poor workers”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 337.
“such clean houses they keep” and “I never saw”: W
LHBH.
“Write up some of the happy things”: Ibid.
“one of the happiest and brightest”: Ibid.
“Little Lord Fauntleroy”: Ibid.
“Jolly Strikers Who Don’t Whine”: Ibid.
“Weavers on all common looms”: Ibid.
“The Mill Weaver’s Kiss of Death”: Ibid.
“One newspaper woman couldn’t find enough”: Ibid.
“These good people claim” and “There may be cases”: Ibid.
“I have called you together” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.
“pitiable object”: Ibid.
“You are out on strike in New Bedford?” and other quotations from this scene: Ibid.
“The two women were evidently”: Boston Globe, February 9, 1898, 5.
“sensational yellow journalism” and other quotations from this scene: Boston Globe, February 11, 1898, 6.
“Choke her off” and “This woman carries nothing”: WLHBH.
Chapter 16: Reversal of Fortune (1898–1912)
“Maine Explosion Caused by Bomb or Torpedo?” and circulation figures: World, February 17, 1898, 1.
“Blanco Reports to Spain That It Was an Accident”: Ibid., 2.
“Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy”: New York Journal, February 17, 1898, 1.
“War! Sure!”: New York Journal, February 17, 1898, 1.
“Congress Declares War”: New York Journal, April 25, 1898, 1.
“We Pilfer the News”: Quoted in Procter, Hearst, 124.
“possessed in common the traits”: Roosevelt, Rough Riders, 19.
“services to liberty”: Quoted in Procter, Hearst, 127.
“We are indeed accustomed to finding truth”: Hawthorne, Evangelina, 17.
“Does Our Flag Shield Women?”: New York Journal, February 12, 1897, 1.
“the American government declines”: New York Journal, February 14, 1897, 42.
“It is true that I was actively engaged in the conspiracy as far as I could be”: World, February 15, 1897, 1.
“The fair young female journalist” and “Every beautiful newspaper woman”: Brisbane, “Great Problems,” 545–46.
The “New Woman in Journalism”: Hartford Courant, March 12, 1898, 8.
“I have always advocated that weavers”: WLHBH.
“God pity those who could not at command”: Banks, Autobiography, 237.
“I am not here to detail the serious”: Quoted in Freeman, Kit’s Kingdom, 109.
“in the grand style such”: Ibid., 110.
“one hundred and thirty-three men”: Ibid., 118.
“Old Glory over Santiago,” “The ceremony of hoisting the Stars and Stripes,” and circulation figures: New York Journal, July 18, 1898, 1.
“You provide the pictures”: Campbell, Yellow Journalism, 85.
“The paper is a jest”: Irving Bacheller to Don Carlos Seitz, April 12, 1900, Box 1, CUWP.
“We must heed it in every department”: Meeting minutes, November 28, 1898, Box 1, Folder 1898 August–Dec, LCPP.
“corrupts, depraves, degrades, or injures”: Buffalo Weekly Express, October 13, 1898, 4.
“The latter simply prefer scandal”: Commander, “Significance,” 154–55.
“The Journal has too sincere a sympathy”: Thornton, “When a Newspaper,” 110.
“I have yet to meet the woman”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 338.
“seamy side” and other quotations from this letter: Elizabeth Banks to Wm. Morris Colles, December 10, 1901, UTBP.
“But why are you here?”: Crane, Active, 160.
“Henrietta, however, does smell”: James, Portrait, 131.
“Of all horned cattle, deliver me”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12, 1891, 4.
“whose thoughts reach beyond their own livelihood” and other quotations from this article: Pulitzer, “College,” 658.
“private detective”: Editor and Publisher, August 20, 1910, 5.
“Was any decision reached”: New-York Tribune, March 23, 1912, 7.
“the man with the muck rake” and other quotations from this speech: Bismarck Tribune, April 16, 1906, 1.
“On the one hand, that action”: Sawaya, Modern Women, 81.
Chapter 17: In the Wake (1898–1900)
“so brazen and defiant”: New-York Tribune, March 30, 1905, 5.
“Let women and girls become enlightened”: Matthews, “Dangers,” 62–69.
“The city does not need to throw back”: Sun, September 14, 1897, 6.
“The White Rose Mission was organized”: New York Evening Telegram, September 20, 1897, 1–2.
“Says the Northerner” and other quotations from this article: Banks, “Negro,” 459–74.
“America is not a land of equality”: Banks, Autobiography, 157.
“Wells-Barnett” and other quotations from this scene: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 255.
“despite my best”: Ibid., 216.
“like they were little feathers”: Green and Kelly, Night, 24.
“as easy to get into Galveston”: Black, “Rambles, Part V,” 36.
“slimy with the debris of the sea” and “negroes”: Quoted in Green, Flood, 88.
“He told us what he was thinking”: Ibid., 93.
Chapter 18: Vanishing Ink (1900–Present)
“nonfiction novel” and “a serious new art form”: New York Times, January 16, 1966, BR2.
“By trial and error” and “the everyday gestures”: Wolfe, “Great American Novel,” 158.
“Lucia stood and watched”: Jewell County Monitor, November 27, 1895, 3.
“I see a child”: Didion, Slouching, 127–28.
“sensibility, the tonal range”: New York Times, March 13, 2005, G1.
“slow drip of petty disclosure,” “big, earnest blob,” and “the Godfather behind”: Wolcott, “Me, Myself,” 216, 214.
“artfully told narrative”: Boynton, New New Journalism, xi–xxxii.
“in the best tradition of newspaper sob sisterism”: Yurick, “Sob-Sister,” 158.
“Don’t bother to look for it here”: Thompson, Fear, 33.
“The only reason Wolfe seems ‘new’”: Thompson, “Jacket Copy,” 108.
“spy-glass”: Hurston, Mules, 1.
“I hurried back to Eatonville”: Ibid., 2.
“Hanged for stealing hogs” and other examples: Wells, Selected Works.
“pretty and personable” and other quotations from and about this article: Steinem, Outrageous, 29–69.
“Though I identified emotionally”: Ibid., 16.
“Eventually, dawning feminism”: Ibid.
“Someone ought to do”: Ehrenreich, Nickel, 1.
“Something is wrong, very wrong”: Ibid., 199.
“I perceived it, specifically”: Faludi, Darkroom, 52.
“As I look back on it, it was a good piece” and other quotations from this source: Author interview.
“a world of deception”: Author interview.
“Tales Told Out of School”: New York Times, November 30, 2014, 18.
“kiss-and-tell”: Haggard, “Suki Kim,” https://www.piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/suki-kim-without-you-there-no-us-my-time-sons-north-koreas.
“Great insights from ‘that girl’” and other quotations from this panel: “From the Inside: A Conversation on Immersion and Undercover Reporting,” Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference, 2017.
“I courted that organization”: Author interview.
Chapter 19: Anonymous Sources (Present)
“trying to make a reputation”: Volume 9, CHMCMS.
“Guess which of the above is the ‘girl reporter’”: Chicago Times, December 21, 1888, 4.
What I Know About the Girl Reporter: Details are taken from her Chicago Times series in December 1888.
“Physicians Who Recommend Others Who Would Commit Abortion”: Chicago Times, December 27, 1888, 1.
“That lady repor
ter of theirs”: Chicago Times, January 4, 1889, 4.
“Florence Noble, alias Margaret Noble”: Inter Ocean, January 9, 1889, 9.
“the girl reporter”: Sterling Daily Gazette, January 9, 1889, 2.
“The Chicago Times Company, James J. West”: Silva vs. Chicago Times, January 1889, G-70667, CCCA.
“The Girl Reporter of the Chicago Times Is Here”: Ashland Weekly News, January 23, 1889, 6.
“committed to the Joliet asylum” and “suffered from delusions”: Chicago Tribune, May 8, 1924, 20.
“That the young woman filled”: Banks, “‘Yellow Journalism,’” 338.
“Years ago, a degenerate public”: Cahoon, “Gutter,” 572.
“a homeless fallen woman”: Ibid., 572–73.
“dark, dingy, and dirty”: Chicago Tribune, September 5, 1888, 5.
“O, Mrs. Carpenter”: Ibid.
“I would feel myself lost among them”: Chicago Times, December 19, 1888, 1.
Chapter 20: A Collection of Endings (1899–1922)
“Think of what a greater”: Sun, September 24, 1899, 1.
“Mrs. Katherine Swan”: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 23, 1901, 2.
“the famous ‘Kate Swan’”: Star-Gazette, June 16, 1908, 7.
“Go”: Black, “Rambles, Part V,” 256.
“Annie Laurie Tells of the Spectral City”: San Francisco Examiner, April 22, 1906, 10.
“Get the idea out of your heads”: Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, July 4, 1919, 12.
“You will smile it out”: Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, October 2, 1907, Box 2, Folder 16, NYPLJP.
“The story itself is almost”: Tennessean, October 20, 1912, 43.
“It was the happiest work”: Valesh, Oral History, CUL.
“During the 90’s”: Detroit Free Press, March 22, 1936.
“You know what the Lord”: Courier-News, June 15, 1915, 11.
“What the Women Are Doing in the War”: Courier-News, March 21, 1917, 1.
“As a stranger, I could”: Banks, Remaking, 172.
“Where else in the world”: Ibid., 182.
“Boys come and shake hands”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 401.
“They are now enjoying the result”: Wells-Barnett, Arkansas, 11.
“Pray to live”: Wells-Barnett, Crusade, 403.