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...Beacon Journal, Knight inherited the paper from his father in 1933 and used it as a base to build a thriving publishing empire that today includes four television stations and 34 daily newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of 25 million (among them: the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer). Until his retirement in 1976, he batted out a weekly column for his papers, "The Editor's Notebook," in which he took blunt, conservative stands on fiscal policy and Big Government but staunchly opposed U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. The column won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...Jackie's White House tours helped Smith tone down her Houston drawl to a Vassaresque whisper. Scenes filmed around the capital included one dealing with Jackie's $42.50-a-week stint in the early '50s as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the now-defunct Washington Times-Herald. Though the former First Lady eventually covered the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, she never quite clicked with the bulky Speed Graphic cameras then favored for news photography. Said Jackie later: "I always forgot to pull out the slide." As Margaret Bourke-White in the film Gandhi, Bergen (Carnal Knowledge...
Buckley journeyed to Schaefer Stadium yesterday for a Patriots press conference. "I've never seen anything like it; the Globe and Herald and everybody who covers the team were there," said Buckley, who, unlike the late pressbox, hasn't gotten used to attention from such luminaries. Despite his sparkling 1980 campaign, the Marblehead native didn't receive the serious consideration he deserved by the national media, especially after the loss to Yale that put a damper on the successful season...
...Post's handling of the Cooke affair struck most editors as inexcusable. "The practice [of using blind sources] is valid if the source can help you expose criminal conduct," says Dallas Times Herald Managing Editor Will Jarrett. "It is not valid if your source is the person perpetrating the crime." Notes Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "The part that boggles my mind is that a reporter who has been with a paper only eight or nine months can refuse to tell an editor her source...
...textile workers. The New York Times won two awards, for John Crewdson's reporting on America's immigration problems and Dave Anderson's commentary on sports. The criticism prize went to Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Star for his book reviews. Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald won the international reporting award for her coverage of Central America...