Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fall, Walters will join an at first sulfurously reluctant Harry Reasoner in anchoring ABC's lagging Evening News. She will be the first woman ever to fill a regular network anchor slot, the most prestigious job in television journalism. She will also become history's highest-paid journalist...
That thought troubles quite a few TV news executives. "A good journalist is worth more than a baseball player or a rock star, but I'm worried about where it's going," says CBS News President Richard Salant. "A million dollars is a grotesque amount of money." Frets a top NBC executive: "We're going to have a contagion of on-camera personalities asking for more money...
Died. Joe David Brown, 60, journalist and bestselling author (Addie Pray, Stars in My Crown, Kings Go Forth); of a heart attack; near Mayfield, Ga. Brown at 21 became the nation's youngest managing editor (of the Dothan, Ala., Eagle). After serving as a paratrooper in World War II, he became a TIME writer and a correspondent overseas; he later wrote for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Time-Life Books. Brown, between journalistic jobs, turned to short stories and novels, many of which were about life in the backwoods South which the courtly author knew and loved. Three books became movies...
When University Hall was taken over, the Gazette was founded as a public relations organ for Harvard. They had a P.R. photographer already, but Rick convinced Harvard there was a need for someone to shoot the demonstrations and street action. "I wasn't a journalist; I was a photographer--I took what they told me to take. Now, after I switched to the News Office, I do much more P.R.--we avoid demonstrations, especially using pictures for identification. Chuck Daley [vice president for government and community affairs] decided we should get out of the police business. That was a very...
...Jones articles, but the advocacy journalism sometimes hides other biases. For example, Burlingham says some people view the utility rates drive in Arkansas as "one step toward public ownership and control of the power industry." In the very next line, the writer interrupts his narrative--the first-person traumatic journalist angle is a constant problem with the magazine--to say, "(I do not mean to suggest, however, that their real purpose in promoting lifeline is to take over the utilities. The issue's popularity reflects the situations of the groups which have adopted it. Most are large organizations. Several have...