Research Catalog

Title

City editor / by Stanley Walker ; with a foreword by Alexander Woollcott.

Author

Walker, Stanley, 1898-1962.

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

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Description

xv, 336 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "As city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, Stanley Walker earned a reputation as one of New York's most astute and resourceful newspaper men. In City Editor, he distills his experiences into a robust insider's account of the journalism of his day, taking on the issue confronting journalists of both his own era and ours: journalistic ethics, the value of journalism schools, freedom of the press, and corporate influence on editorial content.
• Walker describes the challenges and pleasures of covering New York City ("it affords the newspaper man an ever-changing spectacle"), balances the threat of libel with the need to get a good story ("A paper which doesn't take chances is a dead paper"), and offers candid advice on good newspaper writing ("Pick adjectives as you would a diamond or a mistress ... too many are dangerous").
• More than six decades after its first publication, City Editor remains a lively, entertaining, and valuable record of the golden age of American journalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Journalism
• New York herald tribune
• Walker, Stanley, 1898-1962
• Journalists > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• American newspapers > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Newspaper editors > New York (State) > New York > Biography
• Journalism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century

Note

• Originally published: New York : F.A. Stokes, 1934.
• Includes index.

Contents

Hard, Soft, and Medium -- Fashions in News -- Notes on a Noble Calling -- Covering New York -- The Quick and the Dead -- The Man with the Green Eyeshade -- The Man with the Camera -- Sports - Valhalla's Bull-Pen -- Maestros with Brasses and Wood-Winds -- Newspaper Style and "Don'ts" -- Sermon on Ethics -- The Nightmare of Libel -- The Job and the School of Journalism -- The Free Press under the Revolution -- News on the Air -- A Gallery of Angels -- Twelve of New York -- Memorandum for Tomorrow.

ISBN

0801862922 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99015162

OCLC

• 41096093
• ocm41096093

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries