Word: newsroomful
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...members, "you'll need a pass to enter restricted areas, or for that matter, maybe to get into the News Building . . . Before the pass is issued, however, the Office of Civilian Defense requires that you sign the attached oath of loyalty." Similar notices were tacked on most Manhattan newsroom bulletin boards last week, or sent to newsmen...
...course itself, required of all seniors, tries to give a classroom approach to newsroom techniques. Part of it concerns itself with teaching students how to read and compare newspapers. Because of its range, the course has sometimes been called radical, but no attempt to erase it from the curriculum has yet been made...
...staffers and contributors (Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Edwin Markham, Homer Davenport, et al.), entertained them by dancing jigs in the office, striding through the streets with a cane that whistled, and in more corruptive ways. He was great fun to work for; after a hard day in the newsroom he liked to gather the staff at his big house for lavish parties complete [said horrified gossips] with "abandoned dancing girls." After his father died (1891), someone complained to his mother that Willie was wasting the family fortune away at $1 million a year. "Too bad," said Phoebe Hearst sweetly. "Then...
...Question of Ethics. When Secretary of Defense George Marshall read the letter, he promptly asked General MacArthur's headquarters to check the letter's "facts." Next day, Tokyo's reply was posted on the Pentagon newsroom's bulletin board...
...Harold Dietrich, 50-year-old assistant news editor of the Sun-Telegraph, decided he would rather put out a newspaper. With the sponsorship of Pittsburgh's C.I.O. Newspaper Guild and craft unions, he turned a three-room downtown office into a newsroom and recruited some 20 furloughed newsmen to cover their old beats. This week, on the 14th day of the strike, Dietrich's crew ended Pittsburgh's news famine by turning out an eight-page, regular-sized daily, the Pittsburgh Daily Reporter, printed at the plant of labor-paper-publishing Western Newspaper Union. The Reporter...