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These revealing letters of Harold Ross tell the story of the birth
of "The New Yorker". Although he claimed he was not a writer, Ross
spent hours each day firing off letters to friends, such as E. B.
White, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
Filled with anecdotes, this collection is a chronicle of the
formation of the most prestigious magazine in America.
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 undertake a huge, extended reportorial study
of his own industry. Gathering more than two dozen distinguished
journalists and writers, Roberts produced a long series of reports
in the American Journalism Review, published by the University of
Maryland School of Journalism. This is the first of two books to be
published exploring the current state of the American newspaper,
and it asks the crucial question: Are American communities -- in
the very middle of the so-called information explosion -- in danger
of becoming less informed than ever.
Gene Roberts teaches in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at
the University of Maryland. He has had a long, distinguished career
as reporter and editor, including serving as the managin editor of
the New York Times and the executive editor of the Philadelphia
Inquirer. During his eighteen years at the Inquirer, the paper won
seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. 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 society, but many
corporations have changed that mandate. For more than two years,
legendary editor Gene Roberts led a group of journalists in an
unprecedented study of the newspaper industry for the American
Journalism Review. This is the second volume of their findings. The
first, Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering,
documented the storm of buying, selling, and consolidation that is
transforming the American press. This second volume explores the
consequences of these changes for ordinary communities and for the
nation, arguing that they place democracy itself in peril.
Contributors include Peter Arnett, Mary Walton, Charles Layton,
John Herbers, James McCartney, Carl Sessions Stepp, Lewis M.
Simons, Chip Brown and Winnie Hu.
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, accompanied by dramatic -- and drastic -- change in
reporting and coverage of all kinds. Concerned that this phenomenon
was going largely unreported, Gene Roberts, legendary reporter and
editor, decided to undertake a huge, extended reportorial study of
his own industry, what would become the Project on the State of the
American Newspaper. Gathering more than two dozen distinguished
journalists and writers, 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?
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