Gene Roberts, Thomas Kunkel

Leaving Readers Behind

The Age of Corporate Newspapering

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Produktbeschreibung

"Gene Roberts (an immensely respected newspaper reporter and editor) has provided the reader with a unique and documented history that is as engaging as it is informative. "Leaving Readers Behind is essential reading for aspiring journalists and students of American newspaper publishing."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 395
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781557287717
• ISBN-10: 1557287716
• Artikelnr.: 21173138

Autorenporträt

Gene Roberts has a long and distinguished career as reporter and editor including stints at the Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus and the Detroit Free Press. He was the managing editor of the New York Times and executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. During his eighteen years at the Inquirer, the paper won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. He now teaches in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where he was the editor in chief of the Project on the State of the American Newspaper. Thomas Kunkel is dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, having succeeded to that post after three years as editor and director of the Project on the State of the American Newspaper. In addition to a long career in the newspaper business, he is the author of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker (Carrol & Graf, 1996) and Enormous Prayers: A Journey into the Priesthood (Westview, 1999). Charles Layton is a freelance writer and book editor. He spent twenty years working as a news and feature editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and has covered government and politics in both Louisiana and Delaware as a wire service and newspaper reporter. He edited several pieces in the Project on the State of the American Newspaper and is the author or co-author of two pieces. He lives in Ocean Grove, New Jersey