Journalism spelling and grammar in training future reporters
A professor laments journalism students’ weak spelling and grammar, urges proficiency tests before entering journalism courses, and argues for raising standards. He notes editors’ frustration, the open public nature of meetings, and the need to weed out fundamentally weak students to prevent sending ill prepared writers to editors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Jennings
Maas Communications
Arizona Siste University
Board of Regent
Mai Tourse
Ragged Dick and the Newsboy Hall of Fame echoes
The piece traces Ragged Dick from early 19th century newsboy to literary hero and notes The Saturday Evening Post and Detroit Free Press memorials. It cites Hall of Famers Ike Bob Hope Bing Crosby John Wayne Jack Dempsey Jackie Robinson Earl Warren Herbert Hoover Dwight Eisenhower and reflects on modern delivery delays and the paper’s immense industry scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alger
Ragged Dick
Did Saturday Evening Post
Ike Bob Hope
Bing Crosby
John Wayne
Jack Dempsey
Jackie Robinson
Earl Warren
Herbert Hoover
Dwight Eisenhower
Detroit Free Press
Fourth Estate Revisited and Welfare Reform Report
An eclectic mix contrasts a 18th century mock debate on the Fourth Estate with a 20th century look at newspaper delivery and Pennsylvania welfare reform. The piece notes delivery challenges, carrier age debates, and calls for adult carriers, plus six years of stalled welfare bills and impending tightening of welfare rules amid a $2.6 billion 1977 budget.
Welfare Reform Proposal Pushes Pennsylvania Employment Program
A proposed welfare bill would require active job seeking by recipients and create a 12 month pilot employment program. The bill tightens replacement funds and would bar purchases of habit forming drugs with benefits, while critics note lingering issues and lengthy reforms ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Department of Welfare
Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ainted
Mews Bulletin
Associated Press Managing Editors’ ‘Association
Antaher
John Huntson
Penn State
U.S
America
Edmund Burke
Lords Spiritual
Commons
American Newspaper Publishers Association
George Gill
Louisvile Courier-Journal
Associated Press Managing Editors
Robert Cullinan
Los Angeles Times
James P. Leonard
Detroit News
Free Press
Cullinan
Iit- Ne
Grealey and Bennett
Shapp
Milton J. Shapp
Senate
Milwaukee Journal
Welfiare
Fess
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!