Word: nieman
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What Contract? In the Nieman tradition, Grant runs the Journal on a simple principle: "You've got to have good editorial matter for a paper to get circulation, and you've got to have circulation to get advertising. Editorial matter is the base of it all." Journal advertisers learned early a primary rule of U.S. journalism: the more successful a paper, the less susceptible it is to influence from advertisers. Harry Grant taught the lesson to Milwaukee in a typically forthright manner. When an advertiser asked for special treatment in the news columns because...
...Public Stench." Nieman, a veteran newsman, had bought the newborn Journal in 1882, when it was barely 22 days old (the Journal considers Nieman its "founder"). Nieman was disgusted with the timidity of the city's half-dozen dailies, which he thought were more interested in pleasing businessmen and politicians than in covering the news. He set the Journal on a different course with his dictum: "Never care about classes, but about people. Get all of the information [;you can] about matters of importance to the public, giving them all sides of the question." When more than 70 people...
...Nieman stuck to his guns. The Journal translated and printed more than 5,000,000 words of pro-German propaganda flooding the U.S. (including stories from German-language Milwaukee papers), to prove that some Americans were more loyal to the Kaiser than to the U.S. Government. Journal reporters smuggled themselves into pro-German meetings, wrote long eye-witness accounts. Many Milwaukeeans were so furious that Nieman posted armed guards outside the paper's doors, barred the windows and gave staffers revolvers to carry. For its campaign, the Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1919. The campaign also intensified...
When Harry Grant arrived in 1916 in the midst of the battle, the Journal was thriving on controversy, with a circulation of 97,598, though still far behind the Sentinel (where Nieman had been managing editor). Three years after Grant joined the staff as business manager, Nieman's health failed and Grant became publisher. Though Nieman lived until 1935, Grant has run the paper since...
Employees into Owners. For Grant, his crowning achievement is employee-ownership. The death of iute Nieman, who owned 55% of Journal stock, and that of his wife four months later, rocked the Journal. Mrs. Nieman's estate 1) set up a $1,400,000 fund for Nieman Fellowhips, which, for the past 16 years, has ent 193 newsmen to Harvard for a year's tudy; 2) gave the rest of her interest in he paper to Harvard to dispose of to the ;roup "most likely to carry out the ideals" of the Journal. Grant persuaded Harvard...