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Newspaperman : inside the news business at the Wall Street journal / Warren H. Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Warren H., 1926-2019, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phillips, Warren H., 1926-2019.
- Phillips, Warren H.
- Wall Street journal--History.
- Wall Street journal.
- Newspaper publishing--United States--Biography.
- Newspaper publishing.
- Newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
- Newspaper editors.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 316 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Other Title:
- Inside the news business at the Wall Street journal
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips’s rise to the top Newspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made. Phillips shows what it's like to be a reporter as history unfolds around him and reveals how editors and publishers debate and decide how the news will be covered. Starting at the WSJ when it had a circulation of only 100,000, Phillips rose through the ranks, witnessing its rapid expansion to a circulation over two million—the country's highest. Newspaperman illustrates the life of a foreign correspondent, taking readers from Berlin to Belgrade, Athens to Ankara, London to Madrid. It also provides a look into the inner councils of the Pulitzer Prize Board as legendary editors, such as Ben Bradlee of The Washington Post and Clayton Kirkpatrick of The Chicago Tribune , debate journalistic ethics. Warren H. Phillips began his journalism career as a copy boy at The New York Herald Tribune . He then served The Wall Street Journal as proofreader, copydesk hand, rewriteman, foreign correspondent, foreign editor, and Chicago editor before becoming managing editor at age thirty. He served in that post and as executive editor for thirteen years, and then was the WSJ 's publisher and chief executive of its parent company, Dow Jones & Company, for another fifteen years.
- 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
- Asian 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:
- Title from title screen.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307) and index.
- Digitized and made available by: Books24x7.com.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613258939
- 9781283258937
- 1283258935
- 9780071776912
- 0071776915
- OCLC:
- 1024283197
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