Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three times Madame Bigot Pemjean of Paris had Premier Herriot at her mercy, but she never shot. "He looked too nice", she said, surrendering her revolver to the police. Apparently there is not only honor among thieves, but sentiment among assassins. If other murderers follow the Paris fashion in this...
As a boy he was studious, used to roam the streets of his native Bloom field, N. J., reading a book. At an early age he attended grade school, migrating later to high school, thence to Rutgers College, where he is yet known as the most brilliant scholar who was...
...Along with the shrinkage in the number of newspapers has been launched a counterbalancing effort to 'professionalize' journalism. Today seven full-fledged schools, departments in a score of universities and courses in two hundred colleges teach journalism. "But there is still another aspect of the question Whether journalism can be a profession. This relates to the 'difficulty, if not the impossibility, under present conditions, of maintaining any consistent standard of ethics. . . . There are, to be sure, certain associations of journalists. Last year was formed the American Society of Newspaper Editors ... 'to develop a stronger professional esprit de corps, to maintain...
"In Boston and Pittsburgh it is much the same; ownership rules, editorship bends the neck. Only in these two cities and in some others is the situation far graver in that it involves the integrity of the news columns, which in New York fare on the whole free from advertisers...
". . . How few and far between are the editors conspicuous in their communities as editors? William Allen White [Emporia, Kan.] is the shining example. In Columbus, Georgia, Julian Harris, struggling bravely with his Enquirer-Sun, bids fair to 'become for the South what 'Bill' White is for the prairies. . . . On the...