Tag: Journalism

• Review of “The Correspondents”

  Journalism, Women’s History Month, Women’s Rights, WWII

  If you want to read something that deals with courage in the face of fire then you might consider The Correspondents by Judith Mackrell. It covers the reality of six women who were reporters and journalists during one of the darkest periods of recent history, the front lines of WWII. Sigrid Schultz was a young…

• Review of “Sold on a Monday”

  Journalism, The Great Depression

  Sold on a Monday is a rather heartbreaking piece of historical fiction by Kristina McMorris. In 1931 struggling reporter Ellis Reed manages to snap a disturbing photo that he doesn’t actually plan to publish. Two young children playing in their yard with a sign on the porch behind them that states 2 children for sale.…