Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very real sense, the Special Artist was the product of the Civil War, although he had appeared on the 19th century scene some two decades before the war began. In 1842 Herbert Ingram, an English newspaperman, established the Illustrated London News, the world's first successful pictorial news weekly. Ingram's staff artists sent crude sketches from the field that were then engraved, in a leisurely way, to appear as illustrations alongside the printed accounts of important events. By 1860, the U.S. had three successful examples of graphic journalism: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Harper...
...American press as shown by the statistics, and the very real decay manifested by the quality of the papers that survive, have aroused serious concern among all those who believe in the daily newspaper as something more than a financial venture. Carl Lindstrom, for 40 years a working newspaperman and now a professor of journalism at the University of Michigan, is very clearly one of these believers, and, in The Fading American Newspaper, he tells the press that much of the fault lies with itself, not with technological developments and the competition of television...
Quiet at Home. In the pokey with Siqueiros are 130 other veteran Reds and agitators. The list is a Who's Who of trouble: Demetrio Vallejo, railroad union strike leader, Communist Leader Dionisio Encinas, Red-lining Newspaperman Filomeno Mata. The Mexican constitution states that for such crimes as social dissolution the interval between indictment and trial can be no longer than twelve months. Yet Unionist Vallejo has been in jail for 20 months without trial, and some of the others have been out of action even longer...
...story plant. He pays ad salesmen more than reporters, likes to say "there's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars worth of advertising won't cure." But along the pathway to profit, Thomson picked up some of the instincts of a newspaperman. Selling the Empire News and getting rid of the Sunday Graphic makes good business sense, but even better newspaper sense : they are members of the British "popular press," which peddles sex and sensation for news. "I could only hope to keep them on as salacious papers," he said. "Frankly...
...closer to the U.S. presidency. He was thoroughly whopped by Democrat 'Tat" Brown. Knowland nursed his wounds on a slow cruise through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean; then he returned to Oakland and sat down beside his father to see what he might do as a newspaperman...