Word: editor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor glared at the job-seeking undergraduate and rasped out just one question: "You ever been to journalism school?" Uh, stammered the student, no. Snapped New York Herald Tribune City Editor (1928-35) Stanley Walker: "You're hired...
...Most famed of convict journalists was the old New York Evening World's talented, sadistic City Editor Charles E. Chapin, sent to Sing Sing in 1919 for the murder of his wife. As editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin, Chapin drove his convict staffers as hard as he had the worldmen, ended up tending the prison flower garden after authorities, unappreciative of Chapin's aggressive editing, suspended publication...
Such reactions to journalism schools have mostly gone out of style with U.S. editors who no longer seem to fly into spike-throwing rages at the notion that the craft of journalism can be taught in any school except the school of pavement-pounding, doorbell-ringing experience. Most papers now prefer to hire the J-school graduate because he does have some practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism...
Four to One. Founding Dean Walter Williams, Bible student and orator, was a Missouri editor who did not go to college. But he insisted from the start that a Mizzou journalism student devote some 75% of his curriculum to the liberal arts and sciences, a requirement still in effect and now the standard for most schools. To give his students practical training, Newsman Williams mortgaged his house, set up the Columbia Missourian, a daily largely written and edited by students under faculty supervision, which competes in Columbia (pop. 45,000) with the Tribune, trails its opposition in paid circulation...
...journalism schools, e.g., Northwestern, Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, argue that the liberal arts major is more suited to the long haul of newspapering than the J-school man: his background is broader, better preparing him to cope with assignments from atomics to Zionism. Instead of taking journalism courses, says Managing Editor Al Friendly of the Washington Post and Times Herald, "a boy would be better off reading Carlyle or studying the pigmentation of butterfly wings...