Late Edition: A Love Story
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312376901 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Greene laments the passing of a proud tradition from the peak year of 1984 with 63.3 million circulation sliding to 50.7 million per day, noting its generational gap of 63.7% of daily readers being 55 years or older contrasted with 33% of readers ages 25–37. . All rights reserved. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Refreshing, respectful and comical, Greene's press-time recollections are meant to be read slowly and savored as the current chaotic computerized information business replaces newsprint, banner headlines and night owl editions. Currently a CNN contributor, he remembers his days as a copyboy and other apprentice positions at the Columbus Citizen-Journal and the Columbus Dispatch, two rival newspapers in Ohio's capital city, with the noisy reporters,
Amazon Customer said A must-read, nostalgic yet provocative look at newspapers when they dominated. Late Edition is a nostalgic, fascinating, inside, and definitely sweet peek of a young reporter's foray into the newspaper industry. It left me with a clear understand of the magic it was to work for a newspaper but it also left me deeply pondering. If the death toll continues to rise among newspapers, what does this mean for o. "Greene, long one of my favorite authors, did not disappoint me." according to Blaine Greenfield. Way back when God was a little girl, my undergraduate majorat Rider University was journalism I wanted to someday bea sports columnist and so when I heard that Bob Greene wroteabout his days as a young journalist in LATE EDITION: A LOVESTORY, I knew that was a book that I just had to read.Was it ever a trip down memory lane!Gre. Compelling and entertaining Delores Ashworth In typical Bob Greene style, Late Edition drew me in from the first page. In this book, he chronicles the beginning of his newspaper career over three summers at the Columbus Citizen-Journal. The book is filled with anecdotes of these summers: his first summer as a copy boy, then working for the sports department, and in his la
A loving and laughter-filled trip back to a lost American time when the newspaper business was the happiest game in town.In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene (When We Get to Surf City, Duty, Once Upon a Town) travels back to a place where—when little more than a boy—he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern building, put out a daily newspaper that didn't even know it had already started to die.“In some American cities,” Greene writes, “famous journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the course of history with their reporting.” But at the Columbus Citizen-Journal, there was a willful rejection of grandeur—these were overworked reporters and snazzy sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each morning, they awakened to realize: “I get to go down to the paper again.”At least that is how it seemed in the eyes of the novice copyboy who saw romance in every grungy pastepot, a symphony in the song of every creaking typewriter. With current-day developments in the American newspaper industry so grim and dreary, Late Edition is a Valentine to an era that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a wonderful story as bracing and welcome as the sound of a rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after dawn.