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...interest in perking up identification with a younger audience," says Executive Producer Stuart Schulberg), four of the eight are over 40. The list: Los Angeles Reporter Jess Marlow, 44; Washington Correspondent Douglas Kiker, 44; Today's Washington editor Bill Monroe, 53; and that perennial Today substitute and network newsman, Edwin Newman, 55; London Correspondent Garrick Utley, 34; New York Anchor Man Jim Hartz, 34; Tomorrow Host Tom Snyder, 38; and White House Correspondent Tom Brokaw...
...Today is expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
...couple of candidates feel that they will never have to get down to the crass tacks of commercials. Says Monroe, for example: "I'm a newsman who doesn't translate into a co-host...
Alert, courageous newsmen standing as sentries against the abuse of power?that is the dominant image most journalists have of their Watergate performance. On campuses, any newsman remotely part of the action is assured of a hero's welcome. Applications to journalism schools are at an alltime high, and many of the youngsters say that they want to be investigative reporters. Coverage of Watergate and related scandals has won four Pulitzer Prizes and a number of lesser awards. All the President's Men, the how-we-did-it book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, became...
...ends there. Newsmen constantly wrestle with the problem of how to find their way among the innumerable shadings of truth and the often agonizing choices about what to print and what not to print. Despite the public's frequently naive faith in "objective," just-the-facts reporting, every newsman must interpret and judge; which things to put in among various indisputable facts and what to leave out often constitutes the most important form of judgment...