Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor of the CRIMSON...
Rival publications, and different statisticians for the same publication, flatly contradict one another's figures in a way that puzzles the man who buys space. And so, since 1923, Editor & Publisher, journalism's trade weekly, has annually sought to furnish the most nearly accurate advertising lineage figures for a host of U. S. and Canadian newspapers, and these figures are always eagerly awaited...
This year, seeking to perfect its service and to establish more satisfactory classifications, Editor & Publisher obtained 1928 lineage statistics for 387 dailies and Sunday papers in 81 cities from Media Records, Inc., an independent audit bureau, instead of accepting statements of individual publishers and agents as in the past. In addition to the Media records, Editor & Publisher compiled figures for 1,019 newspapers, in 684 cities, compiled according to the old practice. The whole story was edited-&-published last week...
...soon as Editor & Publisher's figures were made public, out spoke the newspapers, protesting variously. The fatherly New York Times, in dignified but sonorous voice, claimed 1928 lineage leadership for itself despite any or all other figures. According to its own figures, the Times won with 30,736,530 lines. Both the Chicago Tribune and the Detroit News conceded that the Times was right, and claimed only 30,512,112 and 30,459,968 lines, respectively...
Media Records, Inc.. stood stoutly by its statisticians and Editor & Publisher explained that the Media figures came from measurements by the officially recognized Advertising Record Co. The figures quoted by the New York Times derived from two sources: those for the first six months of 1928 came from the New York Evening Post's statistical department, those for the last six months from Advertising Record Co., this arrangement having been agreed upon by the Publishers Association of New York City...