l manager, who may be one of its owners. Directly responsible to him are the busine
act that each occupies only a line or two, are called "liners"; the management of a corps of solicitors; and the maintenance of amicable relations with the business men of the community. The circulation department in
he foreman of the composing-room, the foreman of the pressroom, and the foreman of
is in his keeping. Not infrequently he has serious differences of opinion with the business manager, especially when he publishes news which does not please important advertisers. Among his chief occupations are devising methods of getting news and avoiding libel suits. The
blame for everything that goes wrong. Under him are: (1) A telegraph editor, whose business it is to handle news from outside the State; (2) a State editor, who directs as best he may a horde of local correspondents who represent the paper in the rur
news that goes into its columns. To be able to do this he must have a wide and exact knowledge of the people and the history of th
is perhaps the biggest and certainly the most elusive game which the world produces. Their lives are sometimes, their liberty oftener, and their jobs always,
warrior, famo
and victories
ook of honour
t forgot for wh
police station yields the largest number of good stories, because it is there that tales of human folly, crime, and tragedy are most prom
ly typical, though by no means universal. The
resentation
is work, a man or a woman must be able to gather news and to write. T
r an impossibility is only an opportunity in disguise. In his lexicon there is no such word as "fail." He must know how to make and keep friends. He must have that kind of original
ce with good books. These qualities are not usually found in company with those which make a successful news-gatherer. A person who has both is therefore worth his weight in gold to a newspaper. T
, because it speaks for itself. Editorials are designed to mould public opinion. Unless they are characterized by extreme good sense or brilliancy, nobody heeds them, though, if