Byline: Old News Is Good News
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A podcast of historic journalism for young writers, Byline uncovers fascinating stories from the printed past and examines the lives of forgotten reporters.

Telegraph Talk and Talkers

In its written form telegraphese, or "Morse," as it is called in the vernacular, is rarely seen. Yet as a vehicle of expression it is, to the initiate...
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Disbanding the Union Army, part 2

As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about...
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My Life in the Underworld, part 3

Here was I, under sentence, after a farce of a trial wherein I was denied not only my right of trial by jury, but my right to plead guilty or not guil...
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My Life in the Underworld, Part 2

I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the down-curving roofs of two cars at the same time. With a quick, tense movement I transfer bot...
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My Life in the Underworld, part 1

I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived, I w...
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The Author of Cyrano

I said that whatever he would write for me, on what ever subject, at what ever time, I would accept without question or reservation, and put on the st...
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Under Fire

In times of war you constantly see men, and women, too, who, sooner than suffer discomfort or even inconvenience, risk death.
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