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• n  journalism practiced for the newspapers

• A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering.
• A hell-for-leather Democrat who left newspapering for a while to work for Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Publisher Evans held that "no Republican is fit to hold public office.
• Darnton relies on gentle satire to evoke the many ironies in newspapering and even his seemingly throwaway descriptions of news situations ring utterly true.

News & Articles

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• Mobile Press-Register 200th Anniversary: I was there for high-profile trials, the advent of Twitter and a 90-year-old ...
  All in all, I've had an interesting seat compiling the "first rough draft of history," as newspapering has been described by former Washington Post President and CEO Philip L. Graham and others.
  July 2, 2013 - Mobile Press-Register

Quotes

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• Dave Eggers in BayNewser
  Eggers, says the Weekly, "seems to have whitewashed his own newspapering past," or, it goes on, has "forgotten about his time as a regular newspaper contributor, thus explaining his apparent confusion about how real, day-to-day, week-to-week...
• John Morton in Dallas Morning News
  It's become very important, particularly for metropolitan papers, to create a lot of niche products,said John Morton, a newspaper industry analyst in Maryland. "It may not be newspapering as we used to know it, but it contributes to the...
• Naomi Oreskes in International Herald Tribune
  Speaking from New York, Oreskes said that he considered the IHT "one of the great franchises in newspapering," and would seek to build on improvements made since The Times bought out the previous co-owner, The Washington Post, in 2003.