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...match its liberal editorial policies, the Washington Post has always been a leader among metropolitan dailies in hiring blacks. The blacks on the paper include an editorial writer, a columnist, two assistant city editors, two cultural writers and 14 other reporters and photographers. Of its 393 newsroom employees, including copy boys, clerks and trainees, the Post claims a black representation of 40, or more than 10%. At the Los Angeles Times, four out of 437 editorial employees are black. Only 22 minority-group members (Spanish speaking, American Indian, Oriental and black) are among the 557 New York and Washington reporters...
Died. John Chapman, 71, drama critic of the New York Daily News since 1943; of cancer; in Westport, Conn. The son of Poet Arthur Chapman (Out Where the West Begins), John was a photographer in Paris, a newsroom editor and a Hollywood columnist before he started reviewing Broadway productions for the News. Unabashedly proud of his nickname-"Old Frostface"-Chapman once claimed that despite the News's huge daily circulation (now more than 2,000,000), he wrote for a tiny audience: "A tough...
...paper in the Columbia Journalism Review eventually led the Post to hire him, feels the review concept has "made it possible for professionals to talk about the press in a critical way without pussyfooting. These reviews have taken a look at sacred cows-sacred cows were all over the newsroom leaving what cows usually do-and have challenged the conventional wisdom of news selection." As the new reviews gain in stature and maturity, Bagdikian feels, they may be able to "strengthen those voices in the wilderness who really care about the profession...
...that only 1.5% of all newsmen on 573 dailies in 1969 were black. In recent years, many papers hired one or two "house blacks" to cover the ghetto and perhaps soothe a social conscience. Others, wanting to do more, found a lack of talented blacks: long excluded from the newsroom, many were finding better jobs elsewhere. Now both black and white newsmen are confronted by tightened editorial budgets that mean fewer available jobs...
Hilliard's appointment is popular with his all-white editorial staff of 133. His colleagues are convinced that competence, not color, won him the job, in which he is unchallenged boss of the newsroom. "We simply appointed a city editor," says an Oregonian staffer. "Not a black city editor. Just the best...