A missing link in the history of american war correspondents: James Morgan Bradford and the time piece of st. Francisville, Lousiana

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Abstract

James Morgan Bradford, publisher and editor of a tiny nineteenth- century newspaper in St. Francisville, Louisiana, filed an account of the Battle of New Orleansfor that paper, The Time Piece, in January 1815, more than thirty years before George Wilkins Kendall sent back his reports on the Mexican Warto the Picayune in New Orleans. A careful examination of early war correspondents andthe characteristics they exhibited, along with a study of Bradford's actual report from the battlefield, shows Bradfordfits the model of a war correspondent and can lay claim to being one of the first-if not the first-modern war correspondents. In addition, Bradford's accomplishment can be placed within the larger context of journalism because it also represents the beginning of the transition to timely, firsthand, factbased reporting.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

American Journalism

First Page

7

Last Page

26

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