William Howard Russell the first special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian John Black Atkins. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/the-special-correspondent/?_r=0' http://spartacus-educational.com/Jrussell.htm' William Howard Russell Sir William Howard Russell (28 March 1820, Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland – 11 February 1907, London, England) was an Irish reporter with "The Times", and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the Siege of Sevastopol and the Charge of the Light Brigade. He later covered events during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War. As a young reporter, Russell reported
William Howard Brett the School of Information & Library Science in 1986. The American Library Association (ALA) was honored to have William Howard Brett as their president from 1896 to 1897. Mr. Brett was a founding member and first president of the Ohio Library Association. He was elected into the Notable Ohio Libraries Hall Of Fame by the Ohio Library Council in 1975. William Howard Brett was from "a generation who believed in service to their country and to each other". He was a veteran who served in the 196th Ohio Regiment during the Civil War and work tirelessly for the American Library