Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frenetic activity would be familiar to any newsman on any big-city daily. But deadline brings a difference. No presses roll. Show business moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero...
...rushed down the hall to the noisy newsroom of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. He was apparently unaware that A.P.'s Photographer Jack Thornell had already reached a phone, and that at 4:29 Memphis time A.P. had sent off its first bulletin, which simply reported the shooting. Alford was still desperately trying to catch up, and when an Appeal reporter called with an account of what had happened, the A.P. man picked up an extension to listen in. "Meredith has been shot in the back and the head," the reporter said. In the clamor, Alford thought he heard "Meredith...
Dietz's overbearing confidence in himself often magnetizes the people around him. One night last winter he kept the CRIMSON's newsroom in an uproar for five minutes with and imitation of a printing press. When he gets his shoes shined at the place next to the Harvard Square Theater, he keeps every one of the shoeshine boys in stitches...
...college, and a transformation of downtown slums into office buildings and broad plazas. The Press has appealed to Cleveland's 40-odd ethnic groups by sending a "nationalities editor" abroad to file stories on Clevelanders' relatives still living in the old country. And editors take turns manning newsroom phones to answer readers' queries on everything from how to change a diaper to how to call an ambulance...
Only three hours after he had awakened, Johnson walked a few steps. He complained of "some discomfort," looked pallid and faced the irksome prospect of a lightened work load until mid-November. Some slowdown! The morning after his operation, newsroom teletypes across the U.S. clattered out an Associated Press bulletin: WASHINGTON, OCT. 9 (AP) PRESIDENT JOHNSON WAS UP BEFORE DAWN TODAY AND SIGNED INTO LAW 13 BILLS...