Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course there is more than just television inside the WBZ center; but the other departments are all small and self-contained. In the rear are five radio studios, a newsroom, and a disc jockey's library for the few low-budget studio programs that supplement NBC network shows. Downstairs the large equipment room holds a relay to the radio transmitter at Hull, Mass., and, of course, the transmitter which feeds TV and FM through cables up the tower...
...Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer correspondents for breaking news. Bragged one staffer: "There is not a police department or a fire department within a hundred miles that would not telephone us the news at any time of the day or night." But when the occasion demands, the sleepy Gazette wakes up with a bang...
...bustling seventh-floor newsroom of the New York Daily News, a shirt-sleeved copyreader, pale-faced under the fluorescent lights, strove for a headline that would tell a crime story. When he had one that suited him, he flipped it over to the man in the "slot" of the horseshoe-shaped copy desk. It read...
...drops George Washington abruptly, goes downstairs into the newsroom to pick up notes on the latest news, then crosses a catwalk to a studio in radio station WRNL (owned by the Richmond newspapers). Frequently the announcer is hopefully saying, "And now Dr. Freeman," just as he sticks his head in the door...
Last week students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism got a look at a new stylebook that attempted to standardize U.S. newspaper usage. A valiant effort to combine common usage with common sense, it would soon be required reading in many a newsroom, as well as in classrooms...