The Correspondents

The Correspondents

I think about Ruth Gruber whenever I read about women correspondents in WWII. Ruth wasn’t exactly a combat correspondent, however. She was an experienced newspaper reporter by 1940, starting first with the New York Herald Tribune. By 1941 she was a government...
Witness to History: Rescue and Survival

Witness to History: Rescue and Survival

“I would use my words and images, my typewriter and my camera as my tools. I had to live the story to write it, and not only live it – if it was a story of injustice, I had to fight it.” While not typically considered a war correspondent, the iconic Ruth Gruber...