The first famous war correspondent, William Howard Russell reported on this 1853-56 war for British papers
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correspondence reaching Britain from the Crimea was the first time the public 
were ..... War correspondents for newspapers reported the scandalous treatment 
of... [DOC] [TLE] journalism -- Britannica Academic - Research Tools [PAR] As the papers' circulations grew, full-time reporters, whose job was to go and get 
the ... William Howard Russell, a reporter for the London Times during the 
Crimean War (185356), became famous as one of the first war correspondents.