#sally baxter

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The Mystery Heiress (Sally Baxter: Girl Reporter #2). Sylvia Edwards. Manchester: World Distributors Ltd., 1958. First edition. Original dust jacket.

When a teenage girl reporter is sent to the Far North in search of a missing American heiress, anything can happen.  Sally Baxter, on the second international assignment of her newspaper career, little thinks when she sails away one sunny day to Sweden that she will penetrate into the mysterious Arctic where she will live with the Lapps, some friendly, some strangely antagonistic.

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The Runaway Princess (Sally Baxter: Girl Reporter #1). Sylvia Edwards. Manchester: World Distributors Ltd., 1958. First edition. Original dust jacket.

Sally Baxter, teenage reporter from a small town, achieves her ambition by getting a job on a national paper, The Daily Cry, and knows that her life will become exciting.  She realizes that the fact that her uncle is the Editor will not help her, for she is to find jealousy among the staff.  A lucky break gives her a chance to travel to sun-drenched Venice to cover "the romance story of the year."

[artofjournalism]

What makes a journalist? Now, more than ever, the relationship with the audience – the mythical middle manager, the person trying to make ends meet, the person who was described in a different age as the “man on the omnibus,” the idiot. That’s it. Be an idiot, ask the dumb questions any idiot would ask. But, never, ever treat the audience like fools. Not if you want to be a real journalist.

- The art of journalism: satisfying beginners and expert readers | Sally Baxter, Australians for Honest Politics, 20th May 2013