Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays...
...rising anti-Soviet feeling in Czechoslovakia. Earlier in the week, that feeling had been exacerbated by an article in Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya that called Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czechoslovak republic and the country's most revered historical figure, an "absolute scoundrel." The journal charged that Masaryk in 1918 paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform, and Czechoslovakia's press reacted angrily...
Knight's home base is in Akron, where he inherited the Beacon Journal from his father in 1933. Every month he travels to one of his newspapers for a day's consultation. He reads all his papers every day, insists that every editorial be initialed so that he will know who writes it. His favorite activity comes each Thursday, when he closets himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year...
Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...
Dissenters Wanted. Knight encourages all his papers to take strong positions on political issues. They are free to disagree with him and among themselves. In the 1962 Ohio gubernatorial campaign, the Beacon Journal supported Democratic Candidate Michael Di Salle. Editor Maidenburg, who dissented, was permitted to run his own signed editorials backing Republican James Rhodes, the eventual winner...