Word: newspaperman
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...survival. The reason: while daily newspaper readership has stagnated all across the U.S. in the past decade, Sunday readership has grown. Sunday editions account for 40% to 50% of the advertising revenue of many dailies. "It's a Hobson's choice," says Gary Hoenig, a veteran New York newspaperman who recently left Newsday to edit a new industry trade magazine called NewsInc. "The Post can't succeed without a Sunday paper, but it is very hard to win over Sunday readers...
...name of the law." Initially then, Gerolmo might have meant the FBI's terrorist tactics to be seen critically, or at least ambivalently. But he must have known that American movie audiences want the thrill without the filigree. He must also remember the famous advice from a newspaperman in Liberty Valance, which sums up the approach Mississippi Burning would take to Mississippi history: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend...
Unfortunately, Goulden fails to pull together his reporting and explain what made Rosenthal such a great newspaperman and what exactly Rosenthal's legacy is. The book is sloppily edited and riddled with factual errors and misspellings of the names of prominently by-lined Times reporters. At one point, Goulden refers to Rosenthal's semiweekly "On My Mind" column as "On My Head...
...quarter-century later, Atlanta, it is said, has finally shaken off the dust of Georgia. What had been Forrest Street -- named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan -- is now named in memory of Ralph McGill, the anti-racist newspaperman who was once derided as Rastus McGill by people who now speak reverentially of his contribution to the community. The city's best-known monument is not a statue to the Confederate fallen but the grave of Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights activists who once used Atlanta's airports to travel...
Elderly movie actors have one big advantage over aging journalists. The actor may now look his age doing headache commercials, but a younger public brought up on television reruns has a live and fond memory of him at his once best. Yet when a newspaperman like James ("Scotty") Reston, 77, gives up his New York Times column after more than 30 years at it, how many outside his own craft recall the days when he was the best journalist of his time...