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...years back, a joke was making the rounds of Phoenix. Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam asks one of his managing editors: "What did Barry Goldwater say today?" The editor replies: "Nothing." "Fine," says Pulliam. "Put it right on page one, but keep it down to two columns...
Times have changed. Goldwater is very cool to his old friend Pulliam these days. And Pulliam's papers, the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette, have lost their partisan image and greatly improved and broadened their news coverage. This week Pulliam receives the University of Arizona's John Peter Zenger Award* for "distinguished service in support of freedom of the press and the people's right to know." (Among previous recipients: the New York Times's James Reston and Washington Post Editor James Russell Wiggins...
...loss of the Times leaves Indianapolis to the morning Star (circ. 224,000) and the afternoon News (circ. 173,000), both owned by Eugene C. Pulliam. While the Star often sees the news in the light of its owner's conservative political views, it is also a hard-digging, aggressive paper, which readers seem to enjoy even when it makes them furious. In fact, Pulliam's politics are not all that predictable. The Star, for example, supported winning Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Roger Branigin...
...Eugene Collins Pulliam, newspaper publisher...
...tender seedling manages somehow to sprout, it must struggle for growth in the sun-robbing shadow of sturdy old plants-well-rooted dailies that have been around long enough to become a habit. These difficulties seem particularly obvious in Phoenix, Ariz., which already has two papers-Eugene Pulliam's Republic and Gazette-and has indicated no crying need for another. Yet last week the city was alive with journalistic nurserymen...