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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...
Immediately letters of advice began pouring into the Beacon Journal's office. Last week Sunday Editor B. E. Maidenburg announced that the total to date was 450. Advice...
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