5 Publications That Changed The World

“What to argue, to do!”, “There is no need to dirty paper”, “It’s all good only in words” — many people who write more than once had to deal with such a disdainful attitude to their work. But in vain. Sometimes a word is quite an action, or rather an impulse to make significant changes in real life. Printed articles can truly save or destroy the lives of people and corporations, and today we want to share with you the top stories of how publicists from the 1850s to the 2000s changed the world with their pen

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1854, “Reports from the Front”: The Story of the World’s First War Correspondent

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Of course, the transmission of news from the place of armed conflicts existed as long as the conflicts themselves existed, because during the battles the issues of freedom and slavery, life and death were resolved. But it is professional military journalism that has a clear date of origin (1854) and its founding father — British William Howard Russell.

Russell was a native of Dublin, at the age of 20 he started working at the local office of The Times, but three years later the promising, fearless and outspoken journalist was transferred to London…