Newsmaker : Roy W. Howard : the mastermind behind the Scripps-Howard news empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age / / Patricia Beard ; prologue by Pamela Howard
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Beard Patricia
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Newsmaker : Roy W. Howard : the mastermind behind the Scripps-Howard news empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age / / Patricia Beard ; prologue by Pamela Howard
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| Pubblicazione: | Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.5092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Publishers and publishing - United States |
| Newspaper publishing - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Journalists - United States | |
| Newspaper editors - United States | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Howard-ReguindinPamela F. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Author's Note; Finding Roy Howard; Introduction; Part I: 1883-1922; Chapter 1: Delivering the News, 1883-1908; Chapter 2: The United Press: ; Chapter 3: Roy and Peg: Paris and London, 1909; Chapter 4: "People are more interesting than the things they are doing. Dramatize them!"; Chapter 5: "No tradition of colorless news," 1914; Chapter 6: "A knock-out!", 1912-1916; Chapter 7: Friends and Colleagues; Chapter 8: The Succession, Part I, 1917-1918; Chapter 9: A Reversal of Fortunes: ; Chapter 10: The Worst Day: "The False Armistice," November 7, 1918 |
| Chapter 11: The Succession, Part II, 1919-1921Part II: 1922-1941; Chapter 12: Scripps-Howard!; Chapter 13: Changing Times; Chapter 14: A Circus in Denver: ; Chapter 15: "I'll Take Manhattan" ; Chapter 16: On Top of the World, 1931; Chapter 17: The Columnists; Chapter 18: "Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People": The American Newspaper Guild 1933-1941; Part III: 1928-1945; Chapter 19: The Presidents: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1933; Chapter 20: The Mayors: Jimmy Walker and ; Chapter 21: Our Man in Asia, 1933; Chapter 22: Debriefing the President, 1933 | |
| Chapter 23: Adolf Hitler: "Germany's Latest Chapter 24: Josef Stalin, The Next "All-Highest," 1936; Chapter 25: FDR: "This dictatorship . . . is all bull-s-t." 1936-1939; Chapter 26: Political Hotspots of Europe, 1939; Chapter 27: Expanding The Asian Connection; Chapter 28: "Every single one of them, ; Chapter 29: The Pacific, 1945; Part IV: 1946-1964; Chapter 30: The Aftermath, 1946-1948; Chapter 31: On the Move, 1950-1951; Chapter 32: Not Quite Retired, 1952-1954; Chapter 33: Still Not Retired, 1955-1959; Chapter 34: A Long Goodbye, 1960-1963; Chapter 35: The Final -30-, 1964 | |
| AcknowledgmentsNotes and Sources; Index; About the Author | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | New York Times, Howard built the United Press; was chairman of Scripps-Howard, one of the two biggest newspaper empires in the United States; and was president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. The first global news entrepreneur, he was a model for journalism in the digital age. Newsmaker's author Patricia Beard takes the reader behind the scenes of a turbulent era, and provides background to the role of journalism in the digital age. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Newsmaker |
| ISBN: | 1-4930-1754-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823826403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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