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...journalist who decides to spend a year as a Nieman--one of a select group whom Harvard supports for a year of education and general socializing--goes through a reeducation process of sorts. Away from the frenetic pace of the newsroom--and not permitted to engage in commercial work--the fellow studies a field that he is interested in and that might some day help his own career. For Zhao, whose work includes editing a monthly periodical of translations from the Western press (circulated to a limited number of Chinese officials) and writing a column about the current scene...
CRIMSON EDITORS still play hockey in the newsroom, but nobody plays it quite the way Michael J. Halberstam '53 did. One day in the spring of his freshman year, Halberstam got just a little carried away during a newsroom scuffle, jumped out a first-story window and landed hands-first on the concrete driveway. Re-entering the building through the front door, Halberstam said his hands hurt a little--in fact, he had broken both of them...
...newsroom of The New York Globe stretched all the way from Forty-eight Street to Forty-ninth Street, a space of one city block, nearly two full acres filled with four long rows of reporters' desks...At deadline time, as six o'clock drove down upon the men and women, it would churn with action and the reporters would rock in their seats like the pistons of a vast, Teutonic engine screaming at maximum force. There were over one hundred reporters attached to the City Desk alone, and when their telephones began to fire, when their typewriters began to rattle...
...book flows well, and White effectively evokes the hard news soft news conflict and the resulting newsroom tensions. While an air of stereotype pervades some of the characters and situations, those interested in the inner mechanisms which fuel the machine that ultimately deposits a pile of distinctive and allegedly definitive newsprint at your door should find True Bearing an abosorbing read...
Since the Stanford incident, 18 newsroom searches are known to have been made across the country, causing journalists to fear that confidential sources would shy away from talking with them. The new law not only should ease that concern but also marks the press's second major legal victory this year. In July the Supreme Court ruled that criminal trials could not be closed to reporters...