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ladies home journal
first modern magazine
saturday evening post
owned by benjamin franklin. it started out as the pennsylvania gazette. it suspended publication in 1765 to protest the stamp act. edgar allen poe was one of the first writers for SEP. "an american institution" -- great stuff, alongside junk. semi-dead publication at end of 19th century. cyrus curtis saved it. distributed by kids, created the NEW YEARS BABY. eventually moved to new york and a golf course was installed into the building.
timeline for saturday evening post
1728-1750s: the franklin era
1750s-1890s: other poeple
1890s: curtis publishing company
benjamin franklin
owned the saturday evening post.
edgar allen poe
one of the first writers for saturday evening post. "the black cat"
cyrus curtis
he saved the saturday evening post. "man from maine" and philly became his home. his wife started writing "woman at home" (which turned into LADIES HOME JOURNAL, birth of modern magazine).
curtis publishing company
located on independence square. best circulation department in the world. bought saturday evening post and it turned into a modern magazine, exploiting the connection with ben franklin. 48 cents of every dollar spent on advertising went to this company. their characters were better known than their authors (charlie chan, sherlock holmes, horatio hornblower, tugboat annie, tish, rosie the riveter).
"woman at home"
edited by a man (edward bok), written by women. it was the birth of the modern magazine. curtis wanted a men's magazine ("the country gentleman").
edward bok
edited LADIES HOME JOURNAL. he married curtis' daughter.
william george jordan
editor of SEP magazine. he went to europe to find an editor, left george harris lorrimer in charge.
george harris lorimer
was put in charge when william george jordan went to europe to find a succeeding editor. he was a formal man: "letters from a self-made merchant to his son." after he died, ben hibbs took over.
norman rockwell
did covers for SEP.
ben hibbs
took over the SEP in 1942 after lorimer died. he wanted shorter stories and he changed the logo.
clay blair, jr.
1960s editor of SEP. most notorious, sued, muckraking journalist on paul "bear" bryant and how he decided to fix the football game. blair took the word of a convicted felon (got him into a lot of trouble).
william emerson
editor for SEP at the end of the 1960s. he moved to indianapolis and focuses on health for middle-aged americans.
SEP magazine illustrators
J.C. Leyendecher, Maxfield Parrish, Normal Rockwell
editor succession of SEP
lorimer, hibbs, blair, emerson, servgas.
J.C. Leyendecker
illustrator for SEP. gay, hard life, brother died of drug overdose, celebrated seasons of the year in his paintings. he always put a halo behind people, including the baby. he could make people "glow." he worked for all magazines, not exclusive to SEP. hibbs fired lyendecker. arrow collar man - 1920s, kuppenheimer suits.
maxfield parrish
illustrator for SEP. never had a cover for SEP, had a lot of ads. he concocted a certain shade of blue.
norman rockwell
illustrator for SEP. realistic paintings, created rosie the riveter, which comes from a painting at the sistine chapel. also created willie gillis and the four freedoms.
willie gillis
a cartoon character in rockwell's war drawings. he was drafted and went off to war, came back in some drawings, etc.
william marcy "boss" tweed
the fight against boss tweed, cartoons and editorials against him in the NY times.
william marcy "boss" tweed
the fight against boss tweed, cartoons and editorials against him in the NY times.
thomas nast
editorial cartoons and created our popular image of santa, cartoonist for harper's weekly.
adolph s. ochs
lifted the Times from the wreckage of a dying century. purchased the NY TIMES beginning of 20th century.
carrvan anda
the celebrated managing editor of the Times (1904-1924).
NY TIMES family business
succession:
adolph ochs
arthur hays sulzberger
orvil dryfoos
arthur ochs sulzberger
arthur ochs sulzberger jr.

times has always carried a lot of influence. columnists have always been major opinion leaders.
james "scotty" restan
NY TIMEMAN, WWII codebreaker, washington columnist, father figure to generations of journalists, telegraphed stories (1st letter of each telegram).
abe rosenthal
NY TIMEMAN. started as the city college reporter and worked all the way up to executive editor at the times.
max frankel
NY TIMEMAN. escaped from Germany, followed immediately after rosenthal as executive editor.
tom wicker
NY TIMEMAN. started at smallest paper in north carolina and ended up being a times god.
howell raines
NY TIMEMAN. times editor, rose through the ranks, editor during 9/11.
era of young arthur ochs sulzberger
rick bragg, charlie le duff, thomas friedman, maureen dowd, jayson blair, gerald boyd, judith miller, jill abramson, hunter s. thompson
rick bragg
TIMES MAN. pulitzer winning journalist
charlie le duff
TIMES MAN. stay at home dad, now back with times
thomas friedman
TIMES MAN. columnist
maureen dowd
washington columnist.
jayson blair
ambitious/overly zealous and deceitful reporter.
gerald boyd
managing editor during scandal of arthur ochs sulzberger
jill abramson
TIMES MAN. 1st formal managing editor.
rolling stone
42nd anniversary this year, magazine is personable media, john lennon put rolling stone on the cultural map (unfinished music no. 1, "two virgins"), music was the first focus of the magazine (though it also wanted the lifestyle that the music represented). dave morrish, grail morcas, peter guralnick, cameron crow, lester berys (all made their name at rolling stone!)
jann wenner
rolling stone editor, publisher of rolling stone & men's health & US week & outside, went to Berkeley, interned at NBC affiliate, met Ralph J. Gleason (important in music literature), dropped out of college, THE SARDINE -- newspaper he started in boarding school. he wrote for berkeley paper under "Mr. Jones."
ralph j. gleason
wrote about music and entertainment, mentor/mentee, father/son relationship with wenner at ROLLING STONE. founding editor of rolling stone. for the 1st serious issue of Rolling Stone, he borrowed money to start magazine.
crow daddy
1st serious rock n' roll magazine (created by paul williams).
jane schindelheim
one of the people wenner borrowed money from for ROLLING STONE.
edward (someone)
the "sloppy hippie" who was the 1st music editor.
greil marcus
straight out of berkeley, he established a serious tone for rock'n roll criticism. "mystery train."
john landau
tried to give rock criticism more respect, business partner of springsteen, boss at "the boss."
lester bangs
famous rock and roll writer
hunter s. thompson
appeared at rolling stone in 1970, gonzo journalist, modest career as a writer, was running for sheriff of aspen, career as a delinquent, daredevil, hell's angel book, fear and loathing appeared in two issues of rolling stone in 1971 under raqaeul duke, his big break was the kentucky derby story "decadent and depraved," two failed assignments from las vegas (conference on drug abuse, mint 400), attorney oscar zeta acosta was the model for dr. gonzo, shook up the world of political reporting, nixon was thompson's muse.
ralph steadman
illustrator for hunter s. thompson's book, english artist's distinctive style, was a perfect match to thompson's strange prose.
oscar zeta acosta
attorney who was the model for Dr. Gonzo for thompson for fear and loathing in las vegas.
mcgourm
thompson interviewed this democratic political candidate in 1972.
timothy crouse
had a stutter, wenner hired him to babysit thompson, ended up writing a classic of political journalism.
joe eszterbas
famous rolling stone writer who was a refugee, famous cleveland reporter, came to rolling stone as a cultural reporter, wrote really bad movies like SHOW GIRLS.
tom wolfe
wenner's simple "what if" scenario led to wolfe's greatest work of journalism. "the bonfire of the vanities" had a very public first draft - began serialized in 1984, book published in 1987.
women of the stone
harriet fies, christine doudra, morrenne portridge, sarah lazin
shel silverstein
wrote a cover of rolling stone
anne lebowitz
worked on the lennon project, rolling stone photographer, then moved to vanity fair.
richard avedon
rolling stone photographer, had one issue of all photos.
CBS (columbia broadcasting system)
gave us fred and ethel mertz, arnold the pig, and the loveable nazi's of stalag 13. purchased by william paley, 16 affiliates.
william paley
purchased CBS, had a lot in common with joseph pulitzer, lived in pulitzer's old house, born into cigar business but got into broadcasting, radio is the most intimate media, got control of advertising budget (commercial for cigar with a singer and a 20-piece orchestra), he invested in CBS and then moved to new york.
elmer davis
print journalist into broadcasting, annoying voice, didn't care about technical stuff (style vs. substance). hired by ed klauber.
ed klauber
hired elmer davis for broadcasting.
edward r. murrow
succeeded elmer davis in broadcasting, real name was egbert, patron saint of journalism, "this... is london", great storyteller from the south, mccarthyism, made an executive, entered TV in the 1950s, but hesitated originally, audio documentaries called "i can hear it now", very serious and always smoked on air, THE MCCARTHY BROADCAST. JFK hired him to be head of US information agency -- job was to try and prevent harvest of shame in different countries.
william l. shirer
one of murrow's great reporters, "the rise and fall of the third reich"
eric sevareid
one of the more celebrated "murrow's boys"
haberstam
in charge of europe for CBS, "an elegant man in an up to then inelegant profession"
jack benny
paley got benny to go on TV for him
general sardoff
owned NBC, Bob Hope remained with NBC.
fred friendly
murrow's partner for his greatest work, started tv program "see it now", very serious one topic show, later president of CBS, friend of murrow.
roy cohn
mccarthy's assistant during the mccarthy broadcast
john lardner
critic who coined "higher murrow" (See it now) and "lower murrow" (person to person, all smiles and fluff).
charles van doren
quiz show scandal, doren tried to take an answer, the show was rigged, gave contestant the tools he need to win.
harvest of shame
murrow's documentary on disenfranchised migrant workers, murrow featured in florida.
charles keralt
or otherwise known as jack kerouac, for middle america with his 25 year "on the road" series.
walter cronkite
only major CBS news figure of his generation to not be hired by murrow, background in newspapers and wire services covering WWII and Korean war, started over in TV and did the news with a puppet called charlemange for a while, recreated a great moment in history, TV at its best was a live event, CBS news with cronkite 30 minute b-cast, "and that's the way it is", interviewed Eisenhower at the site of DDAY in normandy 20 years later, insisted on being called managing editor.
dan hewitt
behind the scenes man, helped to invent 60 minutes.
robert trout
reading from a script, look at camera - CBS.
ponylas edwards
CBS evening news with ponylas edwards
john cameron swayzee
NBC, camel news caravan
huntley and brinkley
NBC, #1 in ratings for all of the years they were on air (1955-1969).
mike wallace
tap dancer and host of crooked game show host before he became a TV journalist, MIKE MALICE of nighttime TV show, "I love Lucy", "Beverley Hillbillies", gave up a gig at CBS to do 60 minutes.
los angeles times
owned and run by the chandler family, it defined LA, ruled LA, told LA what it should know.
chandler family
owned the LA times, san fernando valley was developed because of them involved in the geographical politics of the region, (harrison gray otis, harry chandler, norman and buff chandler, otis chandler)
joan didion
wrote about the chandler family in the new yorker
george watson
photographer for LA times
sammy boy
the news dog for LA times
dorothy "buff" chandler
wrote for the cultural section of the LA times, for the arts
kyle palmer
LA times political editor, all politicians had to come by his office -- had a private office and a secretary. palmer adopted nixon.
upton sinclair
worked for LA TIMES
the LA TIMES and Richard Nixon
they made nixon out to be a white knight, clean-cut, a quaker and a family man. LA times was a republican newspaper. checker's speech given by nixon denied any accusations about money.
kyle palmer
suggested nixon run for senate, moves onto VP under Eisenhower, from there he went on to president. palmer and LA TIMES believed that nixon was the last hope for mankind.
otis chandler
wanted to be a surfer or brain surgeon but had to settle with LA TIMES, conservative like his parents but he made the TIMES into a paper of the people-based on public service. very open-minded.
nick williams
managing editor of LA TIMES who put otis chandler's wishes into practice.
paul conrad
one of the leading political cartoonists, his hiring by the LA TIMES in 1964 was a defining moment. he had the freedom to get whatever content he made published regardless of message.
senator barry goldwater
rep. Arizona - wanted to escalate vietnam war. bombs and stuff, warmonger. but LBJ favored a more peaceful approach.
richard bergholz
politics reporter for the LA TIMES, covered nixon's election.
michael connelley
UF Grad, intergalactic mystery best seller for LA TIMES
geoff boutler
UF Grad, chief entertainment editor for LA TIMES
sam zell
owner of the tribune company. bought the times-mirror corp from chandler. the tribune company owns CHICAGO TRIBUNE, LA TIMES, BALTIMORE SUN, WGN.
the new yorker
looks exactly the same. had no list of staff members. owned by harold ross. it really doesn't have photographs and no bylines. four constants: reporting, humor, fiction, cartoons.
eustace tilley
mascot of the new yorker, man with a monocle looking at butterfly (caricature of ross)
harold ross
founder of the new yorker, sometimes known as greater editor who ever lived, created stars and stripes while AWOL, edited the new yorker until his death, belched and swore freely. he was succeeded by william shawn. he gave journalism the fact-checking department. "hey, moby dick, is that the man or the whale?"
william shawn
succeeded harold ross at the NEW YORKER.
jane grant
married to harold ross.
katherine sargeant angell white
managing editor of the NEW YORKER. married to e.b. white.
james thurber and e.b. white
defined the NEW YORKER's tone. "talk of the town", no bylines.
james thurber
cartoonist for the NEW YORKER, wrote memoir of harold ross, known as artist, drew cartoon on wall of the NEW YORKER. "the last flower", he loved to draw dogs. "is sex necessary?"
e.b. white
known as "casual essay", conversational tone, moved to maine, wife and him still NEW YORKER contributors. "the elements of style", then wrote children's books. he wrote the obituary for ross, thurber never forgave him.
editor succession at the NEW YORKER
ross, shawn, gottleib, tina brown, david remnick
truman capote
started off as mischievous copy boy, then wrote several masterpieces for NEW YORKER.
tina brown
came to the NEW YORKER from vanity fair.
garrison keiller
prairie home companion - the NEW YORKER.
peter arno
model for NEW YORKER cartoonist
charles addams
cartoonist for the NEW YORKER, creation of addams family.
george booth
cartoonist for the NEW YORKER, loved dogs, condenast empire.
garrison keiller
prairie home companion - the NEW YORKER.
peter arno
NEW YORKER cartoonist
charles addams
cartoonist for the NEW YORKER, creation of addams family.
george booth
cartoonist for the NEW YORKER, loved dogs, condenast empire.
the washington post
owned by eugene myer, knew nothing about journalism, founded in 1877
katherine graham
publisher who turned the POST into a great newspaper, married savior of washington star, competed with the washington star during myer's day.
philip graham
grew up in the everglades, a star at UF, well0versed, would never take notes in class, a favored son of Harvard, "washington goes to war", wanted to be a lawyer, married katherine myer, graham took over the washington post (and times herald), bought newsweek, sold off TV stations, knew JFK in law school, put JFK and Johnson on same ticket, hired walter lippman to give newsweek some instant prestige, PHIL PEOPLE vs. KAT PEOPLE, he was institutionalized and blew his brains out, katherine turned out to be a much better publisher than philip.
ed prichard and felix frankfurter
fellow countryboy of graham and proteges of felix frankfurter, who was a supreme court justice.
osbourne elliott
editor of newsweek during graham's time
walter lippman
hired by graham to give newsweek some instant prestige.
janet cooke
scandal, she had to give back a pulitzer prize.
daniel ellsberg
leaked a copy of the pentagon papers to new york times.
ben bagdikian
post assistant managing editor who did stuff with the pentagon papers.
donald graham
eventually took over as publisher of WASHINGTON POST.
st. petersburg times
one of the most unusual papers, once financially trouble it turned into an independent daily and ranked as one of nation's top 10 papers. purchased by W.L. Straab in 1901.
nelson poynter
purchased st. pete times, there was revolt by the smith family in the paper but poynter eventually controlled the revolt, from sullivan, ind and owned a chain of 10 papers in indiana and north carolina, worked coast to coast during war, married to henrietta poynter ----

standard of ownership: papers are to help people. THE ST PETE TIMES owned florida trend, congressional quarterly, and governing.
W.L. Straab
purchased the ST PETE TIMES in 1901, sold ads, drew editorial cartoons, edited copies and wrote.
henrietta poynter
married nelson poynter, drew him further into national politics.
eugene patterson
poynter's hand-picked successor came from the washington post and atlanta constitution. he became the editor of ST PETE TIMES. his successor was andrew barnes (only major paper where editor is also CEO).
andrew barnes
eugene patterson's successor at the ST PETE TIMES.
mike foley
30 years with ST PETE TIMES as executive editor, UF grad
the miami herald
frank b. shutts founded herald in 1910, 3 papers in one, 1920 miami was country's favorite sideshow, 1926 the paper was under-reported, damage during hurricanes.
frank b. shutts
founded the MIAMI HERALD in 1910
henry flagler
a railroad tycoon business partner who owned part of the MIAMI HERALD.
john s. knight
made the MIAMI HERALD his flagship newspaper, he's from ohio, newspaper became great.
john pennecamp
opinions editor for MIAMI HERALD
gene miller
won pulitzer prize twice for the MIAMI HERALD, his stories twice got unjustly accused men off death row. his style was known as the "miller chop" -- short sentences. he became the editor at the MIAMI HERALD and fought a generation of writers.
edna buchanon
switchboard operator to pulitzer winner for MIAMI HERALD, revolutionized police reporting and did not have a college degree, couldn't have a murder without edna.
liz belmascoda
pulitzer winner for the MIAMI HERALD
fabuela santiago
UF grad, senior editor at the MIAMI HERALD
jim mcgee
UF grad, pulitzer winner at MIAMI HERALD, gary hurt stories, accusations of warmongering.
carl hiasson
UF grad, community and environment in miami for MIAMI HERALD
dave berry
america's funniest columnist, found his muse when he came to miami, won pulitzer for distinguished commentary on elia gonzalez' story for MIAMI HERALD.
citizen twain
first accounts westward of migration, written for newspapers, mail and the pony express
david crockett
his notebook, wrote syndicated column.
samuel longhorne clemens (mark twain)
first real american, moved to hannibal mississippi, his older sister mary died when he was 4. he wrote the tom and huck adventures, orion was his brother (sam would follow him from newspaper to newspaper), early career in journalism, orion bought a newspaper, sam became a riverboat pilot "life on mississippi", he tried mining, signed his stories MARK TWAIN, "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county" (put him on the map).
ring lardner
good liar, his brother's name was rex, worked for a gas company, followed his brother into journalism, as a journalist he got to hang out with baseball players, he was a frontpage columnist for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, his son was named ringold wilbur lardner jr., "how to write short stories", "round up", "ring around the bases", covered white sox scandal.
walter lippmann
philosopher of journalism

newspaper: NY HERALD TRIBUNE
magazines: THE NEW REPUBLIC, NEWSWEEK
books: A PREFACE TO MORALS, PUBLIC OPINION
H.L mencken
sage of baltimore, superstar, wrote obit for WJ Bryan, his father died and then he went into the journalism business, hero of the south but he thought they were idiots, would edit national magazine in spare time with George Jean Nathan, had a saturday night club drinking, wrote 3 autobiographies

newspapers: THE BALTIMORE HERALD, THE BALTIMORE SUN
magazines: THE SMART SET, THE AMERICAN MERCURY
books: THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, PREJUDICES, HAPPY DAYS, HEATHEN DAYS, NEWSPAPER DAYS
new journalism (literary journalism)
had its beginnings at the new yorker in the 1940s (janet flanner, david lardner, AJ liebing, lillian ross)
john hersey
clone of henry luce, NEW JOURNALISM, luce loved hersey but they differed on politics, wrote about survivors of second world war, wrote HIROSHIMA -- he took it to the new yorker magazine, story of six people (fat man and little boy).
lillian ross
mother of new journalism, private person, fiction-type journalism, "picture" -- making of the Red Badge of Courage, dialogue master and never used a tape recorder, "portrait of hemingway"
tom wolfe
novelist, literary journalism, always wore a white suit, always wants to piss people off, virginia, played major league baseball, went to graduate school, watched talese and southern, worked for NY HERALD TRIBUNE and "journalism was just a means to an end"
clay felker
new york magazine editor
4 characteristics of journalism
1) scene by scene construction
2) dialogue
3) 3rd person POV
4) recording of everything on paper
gay talese
worked for NY TIMES, tom wolfe picked him out, had a breakthrough in esquire with his profile of Joe Louis in 1962
terry southern
texas, exile in paris, paris review, wrote a parody of pornographic writing, wrote at ESQUIRE, "twirling at ole miss", origin of gonzo journalism
harold hayes
ESQUIRE editor
george lois
art director for ESQUIRE
truman capote
new orleans, troubled family life, he was cousin dill in "to kill a mockingbird", "in cold blood" -- nonfiction novel of a murder -- hickock and smith, the cutter family, alvin dewey, very open about being gay.
joan didion
shy person, worked for her as an interviewing technique, would say nothing, wrote about california, married to DUNNE, "points west" column, "slouching toward bethleham", "the white album" -- about nancy reagan, alive still.
norman mailer
dead now, always put himself in the story. "the armies of the night", "the executioners song", he was at an anti-war demonstration but he had to go pee in the middle of it, had a huge ego, A TRUE LIFE NOVEL (what else to call it?)
ken kesey
set out on a spiritual quest, "merry pranksters", was a spiritual buddha for the merry pranksters.
neal cassady
"on the road" -- merry pranksters.