Word: newshand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facts of speech, happening or pressagent's handout, let the reader supply his own background information on the story (if he has any) and call it "objective journalism." This week in the Atlantic Monthly, ABC Network Commentator Elmer Davis, wartime boss of the OWI and a first-rate newshand himself, takes the formula apart. "Truth has three dimensions," says Davis, yet the "practices of the American news business-practices adopted in a praiseworthy ambition to be objective-too often give us only one-dimensional news, factually accurate as far as it goes, but very far indeed from the whole...
...image of his Chicago Tribune. Already, the T-H was using Trib-style type and makeup, parroting its editorials and columnists, using the Trib's truncated spellings (sherif, frate), even leading off the weekly football predictions (piped in from Chicago) with Midwestern games. Cracked one Washington newshand: "All he needs to do is call it the Washington Tribune...
Like many another editor who long leaned heavily on fiction, Wiese knows that fiction no longer has the old pull; readers want more & more lively nonfiction, topical articles, picture spreads and stories. So he gave Mich the job of supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look...
...newshand, Michael Chinigo, Rome bureau chief of Hearst's International News Service, knows that news beats do not always go to the reporter who runs fastest after the fire engine. Just as often they are gathered by a man who has the gift for friendship and the patience to wait...
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