Word: transradio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of daily news is the radio. The next question is: What kind of news are they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing...
...much "preoccupation with crime." Transradio won praise for its "excellent" Washington report, but was censured for "using long, involved sentences." One thing radio wants for its listeners, said the committee, is more "quirks, chuckles and brighteners." But, the investigators said sadly, when the news services did try for the light touch they often "belabored the kick line before it was reached" and "some [of their stories] have no point...
...daily paper that much), persuaded a south St. Louis neighborhood publisher to print it,* and hired an apartment above his plant for their editorial offices. Copyreaders toiled in the living room. Managing Editor Thomas Sherman (who edits the Post-Dispatch Sunday editorial page), his society department and a Transradio news ticker were bunched in the dining room. In an alcove off the hall was the telephone switchboard, and classified-ad takers labored in the kitchen. The sports and financial departments got the bedroom. The bathroom was shared...
...Times Recorder (circ. 19,957), the evening Signal (circ. 6,974) and the Sunday Times-Signal (circ. 11,863). The Litticks fought back by taking up United Press and International News Service, along with their Associated Press membership. But until lately, when his News got U.P., Jones managed with Transradio News alone. He carried on a running battle in type. He has lost one physical skirmish: when he struck a Signal photographer, the Signal man bashed Jones over the head with the camera...
...TIME men and women worked for the world's great news-gathering services before they came to TIME-five with the Associated Press, six with the United Press, seven with I.N.S., one with N.A.N.A., one with Transradio Press, two with France's Havas and one with British Reuters...