The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-30
AMERICAN JOURNALISM IN ENGLAND

Manila at the cost of thousands
and the covering of the war regardless
of expenses. Attention is called to the
fact that new journalism is not the
peculiar province of any one paper, al
though there is disposition on the
part of some of the most enterprlslnS
of American journals to claim it, This
style of journalism will have full swing
in England when the Chinese wall OF
prejudice has been broken down by the
two American newspaper men who
have begun so determinedly to do 1t.
The men who managed to break
through such adamantine opposition as
that which John Bull places in the
path of advanced journalistic ideas of
the American variety are deserving OF
more than passing notice. Mr.. Andrew
Edmond Murphy prior to his advent
into the Harmsworth fold, was the Lon
don correspondent of the New YORK
Journal, which position he had oceu-
pied for two years. He has occupied a
responsible position on the editorial
staff of the London Daily Mail for
about eight months. Murphy claims
Albany as his home city, but he comes
of good Irish stock He first gained
a place in the journalistic field at AL
bany and later as Washington CORE
spondent of various New York papers,
notably the Daily Graphic, since de-
L..
a position on leading paper as spe-
cial writer, where he enjoyed the tu-
telage of Morrill, Goddard, widely rec
ognized as the nestor of new journal
ism.
AS it is largely Mr.. Goddard's orig
nal ideas that these two American
boys will introduce in England it is
interesting in passing to glance at the
journalistic tenets of this brilliant
young man, who has done SO much to
advance the cause of new Journalism,
until it is now knocking at the very
portals of the citadel of old journal
ism across the seas. Mr. Goddard was
the first to break away from a conven-
tonal makeup which, for the benefit
of lay reader, may be explained as
the typographical arrangement of a
page He believed in an artistic dis
| play of type and illustrations His
| genius saw that the magic of the pen
| of the writer and the Importance OF
| the subject matter could be enhanced
by an attractive makeup ana proper
| illustration He realized that if jour
| nalism must keep pace with the times
| that originality must be given full
| play that the man who made up the
| paper must not only put certain ar
ticles on certain pages, but that if he
had only paragraph of a good story.
| his news sense should find ways and
| means to gamer aualtlollal ldcls anu
| publish a page feature. and it is just
| this that English editors are now as
| founded at to find that the Sunday
| paper edited by Americans is publish
ing a page feature where, with thei1
| fashioned Viewpoint they had only
| given the subject several paragraphs.
| Oliver Mckee is a graduate of Yale
and while at college did literary work
| for local paper. He came TO New
| York after graduation and went te
Boston as correspondent of the New
| York World, In the fall of 1898 Mr.
Mckee accepted position on the Sun
| day World.
| Both these young men. neither OF
| whom is much over 80. will burst on the
| British public as full-hedged apostles OF
| the new journalism, which, according
to Bob Davis, is the journalism which
never prints what has been printed
! before.