The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-18
Newspaper Life in London.

Lawrence Byies. the young newspaper
man who has been in Wichita during
the last week is typicaliy English. When
he warmed up in conversation in the
Eagle Office the other day ne extracted
a pipe from one pocket and from another
a large foreign-lOoking tobacco pouch
and smoked up. lie was talking about
the army OF liners penny-a-liners IN
the great CITY OF London. The London
papers, ne said. never pay less than n
shilling to a liner" that being the min
imum. and for some stories the liner
many receive many pounds. Many Of
the liners" are. OF course. very poor;
some are not They are scattered all
over the metropolis. when one happens
on good item" he submits It either
exclusively or by syndicate. that IS 20
one or 10 many papers II the copy
submitted contains pointer OF an ex-
traordinary good story, one Of the regr-
lar stan men OF the paper Is sent out
to get . new stony Otherwise the story
IS condensed and printed. Condensation
IS the principle employed b. all Lencon
papers. aad soiidity, bot recently Mr..
Byles says. there If a growing demand
by news editors for light. breezy matter.
Write your first paragraph" news
editor said 10 him" 50 that the naan
who starts In on the article wsll be com
PEELED 70 read The whole article whether
Ne wishes 20 DO - Or not.
The liners OCCASIONALLY obtain a gos
price for n very small item. SIR Bylea
once received q pound for g single line.
one relating that Nr Morris. the poet.
was seriously ~.
He was asked how the reliability II
the liner was established. he said.
If 4 liner Il foolish enough 70 send a
fake 90 any paper he - marked man.
Most OF the newspapers have d list q
ninety or onr hundred liners who nave
been caught taxing. and matter vii rot
Be received from any one Il them
shouldn't be surprised r the London
Times didn't have q list q 90 irts.dicfsd
liners.
The ilncrs frequently seek regular en-
psoymenf and . good storT turned CD
often proves a stepping sto-e in fisis a.
piration- The rule rn ore n the papers
OF which Mr. Byiez WORKED. was 20 hire
Al likely applicants. and % retaln oniy
the best
There ara 10 subscribers ~ Loneor-
Everybody buys his paper "a the streets
The clrculstions are ENORMOUS. with tse
exception % ths grest -evspaper. The
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