Word: terkel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Times really doesn't have to perform so poorly. Among its contributing editors are some of the best and most progressive journalists in this country: Marshall Frady, J. Anthony Lukas '55, Joe McGinniss, Mike Royko, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman. In addition, the magazine lists some 66 correspondents scattered around the country--most of them apparently younger journalists in places like Richmond, Va. and Bozeman, Mont., many of them working for small, independent local weeklies. If its masthead were any indication, New Times would be covering a variety of interesting and important local stories with sensitive and informed understanding...
...enthusiastic selling convinced backers that his project would fill the gap that he thinks exists between weekly newsmagazines and monthlies like Harper's and Atlantic. He had also corralled such notable New, Recent and Old Journalists as Jimmy Breslin, Larry L. King, J. Anthony Lukas, Joe McGinniss, Studs Terkel, Nicholas von Hoffman and Murray Kempton. So the promotional brochures for Hirsch's New Times were festive. A color drawing of some of the writers in a party setting carried the tongue-in-cheek warning: "Huddled in a congenial bar off lower Park Avenue, there lurks a band...
...press, two writers whose names had figured prominently in Hirsch's promotional efforts defected noisily. Jack Newfield, an investigative reporter and assistant editor of the Village Voice, and Pete Hamill, a New York Post columnist, demanded that their names be removed from the masthead. Along with Studs Terkel, who remains as a contributor, they sent a letter to New Times's other contributing editors complaining about compensation and financing arrangements...
Although his weekly column is only a month old, LaVelle's introduction to the trade began two years ago when Author Studs Terkel recruited him for neighborhood-tavern discussions that Terkel was filming for the National Education Television network. Once he was assured that Terkel did not want to portray him as a "hardhat brute," LaVelle agreed to take part. LaVelle's TV appearances led to a correspondence with the Village Voice and the publication of one of LaVelle's critical letters in the paper; a Tribune editor asked him to submit his written view...
...called The A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention. Featuring panels on "The...New...Journalism." "The Wayward Pressbus," "Should There Be a Women's Page?," and "Why Journalists Leave Daily Newspapers," the conference offered up a pantheon of journalism's superstars (Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, David Halberstam, J. Anthony Lukas, Studs Terkel, Gloria Steinem, all the lovely people...) and understandably angered those daily journalists who claimed their own concerns underrepresented. There were the requisite number of newspapermen's horror stories (take sexism, for example: when Nixon announced his last batch of Supreme Court candidates, the males under consideration were profiled in the news...