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100 1 _aDrysdale, William,
_d1852-1901
245 1 4 _aThe young reporter
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-20
508 _adavidkpark, Rod Crawford, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The young reporter" by William Drysdale is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Dick Sumner, a principled printer’s apprentice who breaks into New York journalism, learning fast amid peril, temptation, and the relentless pace of the news. Expect brisk adventures in reporting—from political mishaps and labor riots to prison escapes and storm-tossed chases—told through a young man’s rise on a big-city daily. The opening of the story introduces Dick in a small-town print shop, torn between staying for low pay to support his family or seeking better work. Sent to cover a governor’s visit, he pivots when the governor is gravely injured, rushes the scoop to a New York daily, and impresses the night editor, earning both payment and notice. Invited back, he’s hired as a cub reporter, stumbles by underselling a riot at a stonecutters’ meeting, and is steadied by a kind mentor. He rebounds with a strong harbor piece about the Vice-President’s near-disaster, then lands a major assignment to Sing Sing, where he crafts a standout account of convicts stealing a locomotive—securing an exclusive detail about a station agent ordered to “open the north switch.” Tempted by late-night camaraderie, he drinks and gambles at a reporters’ club, loses money, and feels the sting of shame, even as he helps move his mother and sister into a modest city flat with a colleague as boarder. Finally, he’s rushed into a high-stakes chase to shadow the police chief in a grave-robbing case, battling a gale on a hired tug, transferring to a rowboat, and clawing up a rotten pier to reach the New Jersey shore—where the scene cuts as he and a fellow reporter push on through the dark. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: W. A. Wilde & Company, 1895
653 _aJournalism -- Juvenile literature
700 1 _aCopeland, Charles,
_d1858-1929
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/youngreportersto00drys
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78500
999 _c119218
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