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How he entered newspaper business
: Early 1920s atmosphere that led people to newspapers; how he learned to write news stories; his first story.
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A newspaper's function
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Comparing his working at Newark, N.J. to working at Worcester, Mass.
: Why he went to Newark; Ledger's staff makeup at the time; general life in Newark; newspaperman's self concept then and now; today's news writers.
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Investigative reporting
: Way it works; Woodward and Bernstein; Waterbury Republican's 1940 Pulitzer Prize and the story behind it.
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Working at a smaller newspaper
: Importance of small papers; similarities between different size newspapers throughout the country; Meriden Record's quality of local coverage; small-town editor image.
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Outside influences on newspapers for which he worked
: Publisher's influence; William Pape's philosophy; Governor Cross on Pape; politician's influence; parents' influence; cutting corners with news judgement.
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How page one has changed over the past 50 years
: Original reason for big headlines; reasons for their diminishing in size; modern layout.
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Major force in horizontal layout of front page
: New York Herald Tribune in 1950s; influence of London; copied throughout the United States; inner page layout changes; New York Times layout today.
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East Coast style of journalism
: New England style; New York City style.
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Audience changes from 1920s to present
: 1920s was finale of life without fear; better education for both reader and writer; cultural assimilation over time.
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His admiration of Charlie McGurk, of Boston American
: Story of adoption of motorized hearses; McGurk's Hearst lead for same story.
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Public's right to know
: Newspaper's responsibility; enemy of the government; daily play of stories because of economics; Keene, N.H. and the problems of being managing editor; composing room anecdote; Keene Board of Education closed-meeting controversy.
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The Great Depression
: Stock Market crash; gloominess of life during the 1930s; Roosevelt's impact on Americans; the New Deal; newsman's perspective of recovery.
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His work with the British War Relief Society
: His staff and its clout; promotion of the Society's propaganda into the press and radio; nationwide development of committees and amount of money they made; his job as national publicity director.
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His career on New Haven Register
: Assistant to telegraph editor; being too good at the job; being appointed city editor after six months; getting job as managing editor of Journal-Courier.
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Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan interviews
: Darrow: personality description; thoughts on capital punishment. Bryan: strangeness of interview; idiosyncratic objects in the room.
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War Reporting
: World War II: coverage was running history; Korea; Vietnam: correspondents' disgust.
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Radio and Television's effect on newspapers
: Major factor in newspapers' extended in-depth reporting; differences between broadcast and print journalism; where television news money comes from; conversational nature of news over the air; second-guessing himself by monitoring television news and reading other newspapers.
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News control
: Governmental pressures on electronic medium; newspaper tradition.
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News Competition
: Situation in Wallingford, Conn.; self-competition of Washington Post; wire service improvements; Associated Press Managing Editors Association's influence on the service; United Press International's bargaining themselves to death.
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News reporting and news creation
: New York Graphic; television's reporting alters news incidents more than newspaper's report does; photojournalism's importance; circulation and newspaper improvement.
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Touching on persons he knew through the business.
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Presidents and the press
: Good Presidents exploit the press.
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High-quality newspapers he has admired
: New York World he would read after work in Worcester; New York Times and Washington Post.
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Journalism Schools
: Columbia School of Journalism, Medill, University of Missouri; not as good as they think they are; good general education is much more important.
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His move from the New Haven Register to the Journal-Courier
: History of John Day Jackson in New Haven journalism: worked on Register as young man, bought it, began to build it; Journal-Courier was failing; Jackson bought it but left it as it was; he continued building the Register, wiped out competition. Jackson's sons, Richard and Lionel, took over management of papers; Journal-Courier was doing poorly; Harrington was first to try to improve it; made gradual improvements rather than abrupt ones; hired new staff of reporters; hired Richard Harris to increase revenue; developed combination advertising in both newspapers; typographical changes; Harrington's thinking like a printer while being an editor; operation of The New Yorker similar to that of Journal-Courier; Thanksgiving Day and filling the paper; people finally took the paper seriously.
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The tabloid
: Invented with subway readers in mind; condenses reporting, leaving out background.
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Newspaper foldings
: New York papers and limited advertising spread over all of them; aggravated by typographical union problems; in past, over-supply of often unnecessary newspapers; very expensive to run a newspaper today.
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Recent printing advances
: Letterpress press conversion procedure to photo composition, and operation description.
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Public Broadcasting and public newspapers
: Government interference would create a public scandal; in newspapers, government interference would lead to loss of independence and loss of adversary role newspapers must necessarily take.
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Chain ownership
: Doesn't necessarily mean loss of independence and local strength; singly-owned papers similar to chains because of syndicated features.
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Newspaper dynamics
: Changed greatly since Hearst and Pulitzer, though still employs their innovations; Chicago Tribune's liberalization; changes with the people-and the times; bright future for papers.
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