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Newspaperman : inside the news business at the Wall Street journal / Warren H. Phillips.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.P48 A3 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Warren H., 1926-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phillips, Warren H., 1926-2019.
- Phillips, Warren H.
- Wall Street journal.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- History.
- Newspaper publishing.
- United States.
- Newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- Newspaper publishing--United States--Biography.
- Wall Street journal--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]
- Summary:
- The captivating story of former "Kirkus Review" publisher Warren Phillips rise to the top gives business readers a rare behind-the-scenes look at Americas largest and most iconic business publication.
- Contents:
- 1. Youth
- Early boyhood
- The innocent years
- Innocence lost
- College and army
- Newsroom apprentice
- 2. Reporter
- Germany
- Greece and turkey
- England
- Barbara and the London good life
- Spain, Churchill, and married life
- Foreign editor
- To Chicago with a growing family
- 3. Editor
- Managing editor
- Reporters, readers, and the pursuit of trust
- The early sixties
- Storms and other not-so-carefree days at sea
- Executive editor
- Asia beachheads
- Journalistic pals and working lunches
- News and editorials: setting the course
- 4. Publisher
- China
- Pioneering the sky, diversifying the corporation
- Four dauntless Phillips women
- European beachheads
- Publisher pals
- Women on the battlements: the fight for equality
- Managing growth: the Halcyon years
- A public trust and a betrayal
- The digital age
- Russia
- The Middle East
- Winding down
- Bridge works: two second careers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780071776905
- 0071776907
- OCLC:
- 717299585
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