Newsmaker
Subtitle: Roy W. Howard : the mastermind behind the Scripps-Howard news empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age
By: Patricia Beard ; prologue by Pamela Howard
Contributors: Howard-Reguindin, Pamela F.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781493017539
Subjects: Journalists; Newspaper publishing; Publishers and publishing; History; Newspaper editors; Biography
Other titles: Roy W. Howard
Description: In the first half of the 20th century, the golden age of newspapers, the colorful, charismatic, and controversial Roy W. Howard reigned as the most famous publisher, editor and journalist of his time. Named one of "The 29 Men Who 'Rule' America" on the front page of the New York Times, Howard built the United Press; was chairman of Scripps-Howard, one of the two biggest newspaper empires in the United States; and was president and editor of the New York World-Telegram. The first global news entrepreneur, he was a model for journalism in the digital age. Howard traveled 2.5 million miles to land unique scoops, and was the privileged confidante of every US president from Woodrow Wilson to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He met privately and conducted one-on-one interviews with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, and the Emperor of Japan, and advised the most renowned figures of his time, among them a muddled Duke of Windsor, a grieving Charles Lindberg, and a desperate Chang Kai-shek.  Based on fifty years of Roy Howard's privately held diaries, and thousands of pages of his "Strictly Confidential" memoranda, Newsmaker's author Patricia Beard takes the reader behind the scenes of a turbulent era, and provides background to the role of journalism in the digital age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: 1883-1922. Delivering the news, 1883-1908 ; The united press, "I do not believe in monopolies," 1908 ; Roy and Peg, Paris and London, 1909 ; "People are more interesting than the things they are doing. Dramatize them!" ; "No tradition of colorless news," 1914 ; "A knock-out!", 1912-1916 ; Friends and colleagues ; The succession, part I, 1917-1918 ; A reversal of fortunes, South America, 1918 ; The worst day, "The false armistice," November 7, 1918 ; The succession, part II, 1919-1921; title: Part II: 1922-1941. Scripps-Howard! ; Changing times ; A circus in Denver, Roy Howard vs. a rogue, 1920-1931 ; "I'll take Manhattan", the Telegram, 1927-1931 ; On top of the World, 1931 ; The columnists ; "Newspapermen meet such interesting people", the American Newspaper Guild, 1933-1941; title: Part III: 1928-1945. The presidents, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1933 ; The mayors, Jimmy Walker and Fiorello La Guardia ; Our man in Asia, 1933 ; Debriefing the president, 1933 ; Adolf Hitler, "Germany's latest all-highest," 1936 ; Josef Stalin, the next "all-highest," 1936 ; FDR, "This dictatorship... is all bull-s-t," 1936-1939 ; Political hotspots of Europe, 1939 ; Expanding the Asian connection ; "Every single one of them, with one exception, has come to the nation's capital to serve," FDR, 1940-1945 ; The pacific, 1945; title: Part IV: 1946-1964. The aftermath, 1946-1948 ; On the move, 1950-1951 ; Not quite retired, 1952-1954 ; Still not retired, 1955-1959 ; A long goodbye, 1960-1963 ; The final -30-, 1964.