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Nobody in the office knew that Pearson's Magazine was falling into a stale Irish bull, which must be as old as St. Patrick. This is the real and essential tragedy of the sale of the Standard. It is not merely that journalism is victorious over literature. It is that bad journalism is victorious over good journalism.

Poor Macdonell fairly wore himself out with his ceaseless expenditure of nervous and intellectual force, and he died suddenly and prematurely in 1878. His death was, I think, the greatest blow to English journalism that it has received in my time. In 1868, however, Macdonell was still in the heyday of his physical and mental powers.

One of the stories, dealing with pathetic incidents of the procession, has already been written cases of women swooning in the vast throng, and so on. The Balloon is always first," he added, by force of habit. "I want you to discard all your plans for describing the parade," said Quimbleton. "I am about to give you the greatest scoop in the history of journalism.

As a rule journalism on the West Coast is still in the lowest stage of Eatanswillism, and the journal is essentially ephemeral. The newspapers of twenty years ago are all dead and forgotten. Such were the 'African Herald, a 'buff' organ, edited by the late Rev. Mr.

We have gone over the whole history of journalism, and we find this to be its Law of Nature, to which there are only apparent exceptions. All points to this simple conclusion, which we firmly believe to be the golden rule of journalism: that daily newspaper which has the best corps of reporters, and handles them best, necessarily takes the lead of all competitors.

These demand a new vitality of brain, emotion, and spirit in their literary magazine, and it must be given to them. No better proof of all this could be sought than the renaissance in our own times of the reviews and the weeklies, probably the most remarkable phenomenon in the history of American publishing since the birth of yellow journalism.

I had done nothing since I left the University but teach English in the Louisville, Kentucky, High School for boys one winter and lecture at the summer school at Chapel Hill one summer. I made up my mind to go into journalism. But journalism didn't seem in any hurry to make up its mind to admit me.

But he had been irresistibly drawn towards journalism, just as I myself had been a dozen years earlier, and after contributing articles to various newspapers, he had received the offer of the editorship of the Northern Echo, a halfpenny newspaper which had been recently established at Darlington.

In the end she had found his talent for fiction quite as reliable as that of the journalists, besides being infinitely more entertaining, abounding in personalities which were the more racy, as the pedler felt himself to be exempt from that curse of responsibility, which, in French journalism, is so often a barrier to the full play of one's talent.

Hoopdriver fumbled clumsily with his cigarettes. "There's a thing I got to tell you," he said, trying to be perfectly calm. "Yes?" she said. "I'd like to jest discuss your plans a bit, y'know." "I'm very unsettled," said Jessie. "Or doing journalism, or teaching, or something like that." "And keeping yourself independent of your stepmother?" "Yes."