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Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal
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- 17,99 €
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- 17,99 €
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this engaging, straightforward book, Phillips, former managing editor at the Wall Street Journal and publisher/CEO of Dow Jones & Co., tells the dual story of his life as an iconic man of print and the maturation of the most influential business newspapers. His romance with the news business began with a tour of the fabled New York Daily News with his father as a child, continuing with a stint as a copyboy at the New York Herald Tribune, followed as a full-time German correspondent at WSJ, with stories filed in Greece, Turkey, and London. Phillips comes across as an industrious, resourceful, and hugely ambitious worker bee with his own ideas as he soars up the corporate ladder from managing editor posts in Chicago and New York before landing the plum jobs of publisher and CEO of WSJ's parent company, Dow Jones. He is especially candid about the CIA's overtures to use the paper as a cover, Asian and European triumphs and setbacks, the digital age's surprising potency, staff betrayals, and Rupert Murdoch's power grab. Reading Phillips's earnest, unadorned account of this prestigious publication is a solid refresher course in the history of the golden era of American newspapers.