Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalistic fray, join in the press war which was developing at Harvard, must have helped prompt the decision. The editors of The Crimson had stood by for three years while not one but two dailies had been founded. The Harvard Echo in December of 1879 and The Harvard Daily Herald in January of 1892. While the adventurous and talented Herald moved in for the kill on the more stolid and less interesting Echo, The Crimson's editors were consigned to a back seat, serving as observers to a battle they wanted to join. The Crimson's writers...
...Herald, on the other hand, could do no wrong in the eyes of The Crimson, which was "glad to see demonstrated that an energetic and correctly printed daily is not an impossibility at Harvard. We have the best of good wishes for our new contemporary, and congratulate it on its successful debut.... we should be sorry to say farewell to The Echo, but we are willing to accept the principle of the survival of the fittest. It is too early to predict which this will prove to be in the present instance...
...proved to be The Herald, for, after competing one term, The Echo quietly folded its tent and sneaked away to the land where newspapers whose time is past all go. The Herald had covered the field better than The Echo ever could; it was reporting Harvard news thoroughly, and exchanging news with The Yale News to keep the Cambridge readership aware of New Haven events. In its first year, it issued three eight-page extras after athletic events, most of them out within minutes after game's end. The Herald served the College's need for news, and the College...
...refusing to disclose sources of information or withholding unpublished material from curious grand juries. With the First Amendment no longer a shield against such proceedings, other reporters may also be prosecuted. Reporter William Farr ran into trouble while covering the Charles Manson murder trial for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. He published a story based on a witness's confidential statement to the district attorney's office, then refused to comply with Judge Charles Older's demand that he name his source. Upon losing a long legal fight, Farr was jailed in November. Last week, after...
Wald, 41, brings considerable experience to the post (at 35 he was managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...