Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hedley Donovan, LL.D., editor-in-chief of Time...
...harshest charge frequently heard is that the black press is now so steeped in mediocrity that it deserves its troubles. Says John Henrik Clarke, black educator and an editor of the civil rights quarterly Freedom-ways: "It's doing more copying of the white press than creating. Since the civil rights movement, it has collapsed." A perturbed black journalist calls black papers "woefully understaffed and lacking in quality...
...around the best national and local coverage of blacks by any paper. It has clout, a creditable news service, and has its stories picked up frequently by Chicago's white dailies. The decision to turn the Defender, founded in 1905, into a daily was made in 1956 by Editor and Publisher John Sengstacke, 63. Since then, his company has grown into one of the hundred largest black businesses in America. (Included in its holdings is the New Pittsburgh Courier, a healthy five-edition remnant of the old Courier, which was in serious financial difficulty when it was acquired...
...Atlanta World (circ. 19,500), the other black daily, is the fief of a curmudgeon, C.A. Scott, 62, editor, general manager and resident tyrant. Founded in 1928, the World was once the flagship of a chain of papers with a circulation of 80,000. Says Scott: "Man, we were trailblazers. It's only in my old age that I realized what we done." What he is doing now is publishing a well-designed and well-edited paper that espouses a conservative posture that confounds progressive blacks; the World, for example, has never supported a black against a white...
Hollander graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974 and practiced for nine months before joining New Times magazine as managing editor. "The effect of those (undergraduate) years was permanent. A handful of us are doing committed political work, and people who became doctors will be committed to giving good medical care...