Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Within hours after Ike was stricken, a group of men gathered around an oaken table in the White House to make the decisions that had to be made. Who were they? What did they do? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, cover story...
...feat was routine for the Patriot Ledger (circ. 44,349), which has its own U.N. correspondent, staffed the Olympic Games in Australia, and sent its own reporter to cover the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva. But the fast footwork of Editor John R. Herbert and staff also typified the vitality of middle-sized dailies across the nation in a David-Goliath competitive struggle that is fast transforming the U.S. press...
...pages-only two pages smaller than the mighty Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into our towns like a ton of bricks. But we cover the local news like a tent over a dime. For us. the biggest news in the world is that Mrs. Murphy painted her outhouse red this morning...
Nibbled to Death. Many fast-growing papers, such as California's San Bernadino Sun and Telegram (combined circ. 58,076), which cover the biggest county in the U.S.. fence metropolitan competitors with networks of string correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled...
...black and white and gray by Willard Midgette looks out from the cover of the latest Advocate with a seniorial air of wisdom. Both the color and the air of the owl match those of the two stories therein, by Sallie Bingham and A.E. Keir Nash...