It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Battling for News by Anne Sebba
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Anne Sebba presents a compelling history of the struggles of women to be admitted to professional journalism and so obtain the right to report from places where they were felt to have no place - most notably, war-zones. Sebba, herself a former Reuters reporter, recounts the evolution of the woman reporter, from Miss Wreford during the Risorgimento and Lady Florence Dixie at the Boer War, through pioneers such as Virginia Cowles and Martha Gellhorn, to the recent heroics of Marie Colvin, remembered in a new preface to this edition. 'An important book because it contradicts the myths that is it...
Battling for News by Anne Sebba is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read Battling for News aloud.
Battling for News is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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