Word: scoopings
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...this beat exceptional: when it happened opposition services were still smarting over I. N. S.'s more-than-24-hour scoop on Germany's decision to withdraw from the League of Nations...
...Arizona newsreaders it might have seemed that the real "Arizona scandal" was the fact that an outside newspaper could advertise for a week in advance a local news sensation without danger of having its scoop spoiled by local courage and enterprise. Leading Arizona papers are Phoenix's two dailies, the Republic and the Gazette, owned by the same company...
...first to announce that yellow fever had broken out in Cuba. The Sun reporter there had got the news past the censors by using the words Jack Ochre, and Boss Lord's correct interpretation of Jack Ochre as "yellow fever" gave the Sun a major scoop over its bitter enemies, Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World. When Munsey bought the Sun in 1916 its reputation for complete news coverage rivaled that of the Times...
...News bulletins go out not under his name, but those of his clients. Sometimes he summons reporters to his office, gives them copies of a bulletin, elaborately invites further questions, rarely tells more than is in the written "handout." Some newshawks curse him for allegedly spoiling a Hearst scoop on Abby Rockefeller's engagement. When the Hearst man asked him to confirm it, Mr. Lee immediately gave it to all papers...
...WORLD'S FAIR MURDERS-John Ashenhurst-Houghton Mifflin ($2). By a trick of legerdemain, a man murders in view of 10,000 witnesses. A smart young reporter discovers how it was done, and by whom; scores a scoop...