Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the veteran journalist, who has spent 20 years in the field, these men will be needed "to analyze and explain to the public the proposals worked out after the war for achieving world peace and making our economic machine function." "Newspapermen," he believes, "need four important assets: a good working knowledge of the profession, an inquisitive mind, a cynical skepticism, and an ability to write plain English...
...whole, he remains an unknown quantity. Said the Manchester Guardian last week: "His opinions on many great questions are still hidden, for he has spoken little and written less . . . Dr. Fisher has still to prove himself." Even his churchmanship is uncertain, as the distinguished liberal church journalist Sidney Dark caustically noted: "I have no idea whether Dr. Fisher is high or low or broad...
...young journalist with "a mission in life," desiring independence in expressing his beliefs while crusading for worthwhile causes, the small town newspaper offers the best opportunities in American today. That is the belief of Houston Waring, editor of the Littleton, Colorado, Independent, and one of the ten Nieman fellows currently studying here...
Eight-time winner of the A. A. Parkhurst award for outstanding community service rendered by a weekly paper in Colorado, Waring feels that a college education in the social sciences is excellent training for a journalist. The student, he says, should learn "the history and ethics of the profession," and, he adds with a smile, "become acquainted with the laws of libel...
...getting sidetracked in politics. Though the U.S. as a whole certainly did not agree with the Journal's unnamed editorialist, many a U.S. citizen grinned. Here was a critic irascible enough to balance Pravda's human snickersnee David Zaslavsky, who last week added U.S. Journalist W. L. White to his list of victims (see FOREIGN NEWS...