Book 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.Table of contents
- Cover page
- Newspaperman Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE YOUTH
- PART TWO REPORTER
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PART THREE EDITOR
- CHAPTER 13 Managing Editor
- CHAPTER 14 Reporters, Readers, and the Pursuit of Trust
- CHAPTER 15 The Early Sixties
- CHAPTER 16 Storms and Other Not-So-Carefree Days at Sea
- CHAPTER 17 Executive Editor
- CHAPTER 18 Asian Beachheads
- CHAPTER 19 Journalistic Pals and Working Lunches
- CHAPTER 20 News and Editorials: Setting the Course
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PART FOUR PUBLISHER
- CHAPTER 21 China
- CHAPTER 22 Pioneering the Sky, Diversifying the Corporation
- CHAPTER 23 Four Dauntless Phillips Women
- CHAPTER 24 European Beachheads
- CHAPTER 25 Publisher Pals
- CHAPTER 26 Women on the Battlements: The Fight for Equality
- CHAPTER 27 Managing Growth: The Halcyon Years
- CHAPTER 28 A Public Trust-and a Betrayal
- CHAPTER 29 The Digital Age
- CHAPTER 30 Russia
- CHAPTER 31 The Middle East
- CHAPTER 32 Winding Down
- CHAPTER 33 Bridge Works: Two Second Careers
- Epilogue
- Selected Glossary of The Wall Street Journal Titles
- Selected Chronology
- Further Reading
- Index
Product information
- Title: Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2011
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071776912
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