Word: newsdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newsdom, a Depression-born trade journal, asked a picked group of the nation's newsmen for a personal ''Yes'' or ''No'' on the New Deal. By last week it had received and tabulated replies from editors and publishers of about 35% of the U. S. daily press. The New Deal was running ahead in the nation, 5½-to-4½. But it was behind in every New England state except Maine, in the industrial East (except New Jersey) and in most of the Midwest-Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota...
...Mirror is carefully considered lest it give Winchell the supreme satisfaction of breaking his contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...
...number of unemployed newsmen in New York City has been estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...
Promoter of Newsdom is one Max J. Klein who worked 21 years in the business departments of New York dailies, was discharged more than a year ago from Paul Block's Brooklyn Standard Union. He took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper...
Outstanding features of Newsdom are articles and drawings contributed without pay by famed (working) newsmen and artists. "Guest artist" of the first issue is Winsor McCay. "Guest colyumist" is Hearst's Idwal Jones. "Guest story-teller'' is Martin Green, long of the World...