These exhilarating letters--selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography--tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in Kunkel's words, "scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the...
These exhilarating letters--selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography--tell the ...
The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "corporatization" has resulted in a furious, unprecedented blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers -- affecting both the mightiest dailies and the humblest weeklies. Accompanying this corporate fury has come dramatic -- and drastic -- change in reporting and coverage of all kinds. Concerned that this phenomenon was going largely unreported -- and, therefore, unquestioned -- Gene Roberts, legendary reporter and editor, decided to...
The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "co...
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/, published by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, asking the crucial question: Are American communities - in the very middle of the so-called information explosion - in danger of becoming less informed than ever?
Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Gene Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review/...
What has happened to the news? Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in newspaper coverage. Many newspaper executives, paring costs and badly misreading public appetites, have cut back dramatically on all types of public-affairs reporting. Fewer reporters than ever are assigned to the statehouse or the White House, to city hall or foreign capitals. Too often celebrity gossip and movie tips take the place of serious journalism instead of existing alongside it. Newspapers once operated under a mandate to provide the kinds of news that citizens need to function in a democratic...
What has happened to the news? Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in newspaper coverage. Many newspaper executives, paring costs and b...
