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The Science of Scoring: What You Should Know

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:34 am
by Shishirgano9
Between them, the 4 or 5 major national dailies print millions of copies. The serials attract the reader who has been through the benches of compulsory schooling since 1882. The "publicists" or "short story writers" as they were called then, are overwhelmingly men. With the serials, they also keep the big pot of sales boiling with horrible stories of crimes, catastrophes, and other news items. These "little reporters" are regulars in other essentially male environments, bistros, slums, one-eyed hotels, police stations or courtrooms. The word " reporter " which designates them made its entry into the major dictionaries in 1875-1879, not without emphasizing the English origin of the term.



The "grand reportage" itself, truly was born precisely with the war. Another united kingdom phone number library man's affair. There is no shortage of opportunities: the Crimean conflicts, the Franco-Prussian War, or the Turkish-Russian War... In his book " Journalists in France, 1880-1950" , Christian Delporte writes: " directly involved in the conflict he describes, the journalist risks his life and becomes a hero" . Information rubs shoulders with adventure. We will even speak of " reporterism ", under the pen of Pierre Giffard with his "Sieur de Va-Partout, Memories of a reporter in 1880" . He is a "Sieur", it would not occur to anyone that he could also be "Dame de Va Partout".



And yet... Women journalists, a tough fight However, she will try to infiltrate this world of the press in full effervescence . Because another effervescence shakes many countries, feminism. As an example, a first step is attempted among other things by training. The first school of journalism in France was indeed created in 1900 by a woman, Jeanne Weill. Her pseudonym was Dick May, masculine consonance, English sound, enough to guarantee a certain pass in this hostile territory. Dreyfusard, very close to the sociological current, and to socialism, the founder of the École Supérieure de Journalisme will suffer the worst mockery.