Word: newspaperdom
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...many a newspaper shop the only things kept constantly under lock & key are the make-up man's mats of future comics, usually received from syndicates two weeks ahead of publication. What will happen in the next installment of a comic strip is one of newspaperdom's most carefully guarded trade secrets...
...months Editor & Publisher, trade journal of U.S. newspaperdom, has editorialized : Conserve paper. Last week E & P announced its own action on its own advice: a new face and format on E & P, designed to cut its paper consumption by at least 15%. The restyled E & P will appear...
...demise in Philadelphia newspaperdom last week underscored a harsh truism: U.S. magazine publishers have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden...
When announcement was made three years ago of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships, it was regarded by men of the trade as a possible means of giving American newspaperdom a real boost. The Nieman Foundation offered no cure-all for journalistic degeneracy wherever it might lie. It proposed to do its part toward raising the standards of journalism by taking promising young reporters and editorial writers from every corner of the nation and exposing them for a year to all known data and theory on the practices of the newspaper world. This has been the exact course followed by the Foundation...
Last week Publisher Johnson gave a banquet for 300 businessmen at The Copley-Plaza, followed by such a promotion campaign as Boston newspaperdom has never known. Subway posters, newspaper advertisements, sound trucks, radio speakers and an airplane sign-trailer all shouted the news of the Transcript's "Newscope Edition." Two days later, when the Newscope Edition appeared, Beacon Street saw, instead of the Transcript's dowdy old front page, a bold, five-column layout, of which nearly two columns were pictures. The text frankly aped TIME'S news treatment...