Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report on use of the balloon therapy by doctors at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital was published in the July issue of the journal Circulation...
According to Kuban, whose conclusions were presented last month at a New Mexico symposium on dinosaur tracks and traces and printed in the current issue of the journal Creation/Evolution, the Paluxy tracks have been known to local folk since being uncovered by a 1908 flash flood. The world learned of them in the 1930s, when residents set up roadside stands to sell both real and fake samples of the footprints. When paleontologists went to investigate the source, they saw dinosaur tracks but found the man tracks too indistinct to identify...
...came wrapped in an irony. It was founded with $500 in 1920 by the journalist and scholar H.L. Mencken and the playwright George Jean Nathan as a way of financing the unprofitable Smart Set, their magazine of uptown wit and sophisticated prose. The "louse," as Mencken called his detective journal, was an immediate success, and in six months he sold it for $100,000, the price of 10 million words...
...Schmertz writes, "I generally assume the story he's working on is hostile to me or my company, or else he wants to use me to attack somebody else. When a print reporter calls, I make no such assumptions." Yet Mobil, in a feud with the Wall Street Journal, refuses to talk to Journal reporters, and has taken its ads out of the paper. Merely a tantrum, or wrong- headed behavior by a giant corporation...
Times Mirror, which had 1985 profits of $237 million on revenues of $2.96 billion, has been on a buying spree. Two days before the Sun deal, the company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...