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This article features the operation of the newspaper "Milwaukee Journal" in Wisconsin. Owned by Harry Grant, the newspaper reports everything that happens in the city and covers national and world news, including national politics. It published more advertising than any other newspaper in the world. The newspaper also provides stories that interest residents of Milwaukee.

A few minutes after Congress declared war against Germany and Italy, WRUL in Boston, WGY in Schenectady, and BBC in London flashed the word to the occupied countries by short-wave radio. These powerful illegal radios rebroadcast the news to hundreds of mobile stations throughout the Continent. Special editions of newspapers, pamphlets, news sheets, letters, and slogans soon flooded the countryside. From the underground press the Allies obtain strategic information, military and civilian, that could not be obtained in any other way. As the war lengthens, as suffering increases, nationalistic differences are breaking down more and more into the realization that democracy, mutual aid, and cooperation are essentials for any future peaceful Europe. This is the basic principle of Europe's underground press.

Discusses the excellent reporting by women journalists in the U.S. Prejudice against newspaperwomen; Remarks of male newspaper editors on newspaperwomen; Background of the work of Nellie Bly and Ishbel Ross.

The article discusses journalism and reporting in Atlanta, Georgia as of December 1968, focusing on a comparison of national coverage and the coverage of the newspapers "Atlanta Constitution" and "Atlanta Journal" of the newspaper company Atlanta Newspapers Inc. Topics include the editor Eugene Patterson, coverage of a banquet honoring the activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and newspaper management.

The article focuses on certain core issues related to the current newspaper strike in New York. The reporter's remarks were indicative of a growing resentment against the strike on the part not only of the public, but of many individuals directly involved, as the blackout of the city's nine major daily newspapers continues. A total of 20,000 newspaper employees have been thrown out of work and the department stores have been deprived of their main advertising outlets during the Christmas shopping rush.

The article reports on the adoption of code of ethics by newsmen in crime reporting. It says that the guidelines require the papers to print limited details of the accused and the identity of the complainant until the case was completed. It adds that some papers have implemented the set of rules, some try to follow without creating any published assurance, while others plan to enact them as soon as the American Bar Association has published its crime coverage recommendations in October 1966.

Focuses on the role of a newspaper foreign correspondent in maintaining international harmony, one of the strongest safeguards for peace. Views of reporters being prejudiced on issues; Demands for dispatches which support the editorial policy of the paper; Lack of efforts to search the truth to inform the public; Decline in professional standards; Propaganda in the French media that the United States endorses the policies of French Prime Minister, Raymond Poincare in its policy towards Germany; Correspondents from the U.S. do not wish to offend the French authorities; Failure of the foreign correspondents to give impartial news.

Seattle has a way of making labor history. The third week in November saw not only the confiscation and later the return of the property of The Seattle Union Record, the mouthpiece of organized labor in that city, but produced as by-products several actions new in the history of unionism. The newspaper's plant was seized without warning by the United States Attorney, held throughout a week's time through various court delays, and at last returned on order of the court, which stated that it was illegally held. In the meantime, the labor movement of the city, which was obviously expected by the authorities to indicate its anger in some storm or upheaval, remained calm and sell-controlled, and began voting a day's pay per member for "a bigger, better Union Record." A new building, new presses, a Saturday magazine, foreign correspondents and a service which will help in starting a chain of labor papers across the country are in view. The labor movement of Seattle seems to be learning to turn attacks into opportunities.

The article features the editorial enterprise of "Los Angeles Times" newspaper in California which received a Pulitzer prize for local coverage because of its remarkable method of gaining information on the troubled area of L.A. It says that it managed to take 50 of its reporters and photographers to the riot torn streets to get inside stories. In addition, the energetic approach of publisher Otis Chandler was recognized as he has surprised many people.

The article focuses on the two English-language newspapers in Vietnam, the "Daily News" and the "Post." It presents a "Daily News" report published in December 1965 regarding a young tailor who tried to commit suicide in his employer's backroom and a 16-year old apprentice monk who soaked himself with gasoline and burned to death. It notes that the two papers carry advice for U.S. servicemen. It adds that the antic English of the papers' translators frequently leads to apologies in print.

The article reports on how the Argentinian government, led by President Juan Peron, has been harassing newsmen. After the government closed down the "La Prensa" newspaper, several of its newsmen were unable to find jobs because of being blacklisted by the government. There is also sign that Peron is pressuring "La Nacion" to agree with his government.

This article reports on a strike staged by pressmen in New York City in 1923. The pressmen abandoned the printing presses and the newspaper editors deleted most of what was written. Newspaper owners considered the action as an outlaw strike in breach of contract. They expelled reporters who tried to attend the strikers' meetings.

The article discusses the expertise of Frosty Troy, an editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Oklahoma "Observer." It states that Troy was considered as a rare man among journalists in the region who has scourged major state industries, such as gas, oil and insurance, and has exposed corruption and conflicts of interest in local and state governments in the country. It notes that Troy has also fought against insufficiencies in state mental health programs and correctional institutions. It also cites that Troy's proficiency in the field has greatly affected his paper's future and brought tangible results giving the state a better political and economic system.

The article features science-and-medicine reporter Hugh S. Stewart of "Chicago Herald-American" who made a fake story regarding a woman who is to give birth to sextuplets later in August or early in September 1951. The title of his story which appeared in the August 1951 issue of the paper was "Mother Here Expects 5 or 6 Babies." September and October passed without birth, but Steward told his editors that by a new calculation the births should occur by December 27. In February 1952, he admitted that he made a fake story and he was fired.

The article considers the demise of the newspaper "New York Sun" in January 1950. Pulitzer Prize winner and reporter Malcolm Johnson was asked by editor Edmond Bartnett to write an obituary for the 116-year old publication. The sale of the newspaper to the "New York World-Telegram" was completed on December 1, 1949 but it was announced in 1950 in order to allow staffers to enjoy Christmas. Among the staff members who signed up to the combined paper were Ward Morehouse and Grantland Rice.

The article presents an overview on the acceleration of the pace of change in the news industry in the U.S. It highlights the adoption of the Associated Press (AP) on the new technology, choosing a system developed by Londonderry, New Hampshire-based Hendrix Electronics Inc. The innovation uses a modified cathode-ray-tub device (CRT), combining a television screen and a keyboard linked to a central computer. The investment in new machines contributes major advantages at deadline time. It highlights the certainties of news executives on their investment despite complaints of some reporters and desk-men on adjustment problems.

The article focuses on William J. Brittain, a British reporter and editor. Brittain worked as assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's "Sunday Express" and later as editor of Lord Rothermere's "Sunday Dispatch." He acquired the weekly newspaper "Recorder" in 1934, boosted its circulation from 700 to 22,500, and converted it into a daily paper. Brittain hopes to find a new public of 500,000 readers of "Recorder."

The article reports on the discouragement of several newspapers in the U.S. on the exposure of tough issues and controversies by young reporters in the country. It states that most publishing companies hired individuals with a record of seven- to nine-year work experience to prevent the employment of unprofessional writers. It notes that it is also intended to avoid the selection of reporters who make false stories and made-up issues.

The article presents the story of "The Cincinnati Post" and Time Inc.'s "Star" newpaper reporter Charles Rentrop, in covering the city hall in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1944. It notes that prior to his failure to disclose important information that threatens his career, he was known to be the most influential person in the city hall. Davis Merritt, city editor of the "Charlotte Observer" implies that an old reporter should be replaced with other reporters.

The newspaper, Baltimore Sun has undergone a resurrection, taken on new life, and become a vigorous and able newspaper. Evidences of this are found on every page. Its editorials show appreciation and understanding of what has been going on at the Washington Conference. The criticisms of the Conference are intelligent and reinforced by that rare quality in American editorial writers--a background of past history. The morning Sun's readers are treated to something else than a mere indiscriminate extolling of the achievements of the Conference.

This article examines the reasons for the increasingly important role that labor reportage has assumed in informing the public, how the American press is covering labor-related news and those who are responsible with it. It asserts that labor reporters have acquired an "objective" and "accurate" eye and that some of them have assumed celebrity status in doing their work. It then states that unlike other areas of the American press, labor reporting is intended to show the emotions and passions that are evident in union negotiations and other labor issues.

The article focuses on relations between business and the press in the United States. Newspaper owners, publishers, and reporters, who are interested in the business community and civic leadership, will sometimes feature business events that are newsworthy. Although relationships between the press and business leaders often develop on the personal level, that does not mean a company will get free publicity or favorable coverage in a news story. Advertising is a newspaper's revenue source so publisher's have little interest in "free space" items. Topics include 12 newsworthy events compiled by Lawrence McCracken, the newspaper's editorial function, the duties and public responsibility of journalists, and advice for dealing with reporters.

The article focuses on the dilemma faced by the British national press. It notes that an analysis regarding the closure of some of the nationally circulated newspapers and their financial performance was supposed to have been quietly circulated among the sponsoring publishers and unions. However, the "Guardian" which was not a party to the agreement, got a copy of the report and leaked salient portions which caused the publishers to release the entire report.

The article reports on the mob of media men which include reporters from various papers in the U.S. and other countries as well as those who allegedly showed up as newsmen during the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Florida in July 1972. It reveals that around 10,000 people whose passes were stamped with Media attended the event. It also says that besides staffers of U.S. dailies, reporters from 64 countries including the 9 from Soviet Union and 206 college papers went to cover the event.

The article offers information on the change in the style of reporting by the newspaper "The National Enquirer." It mentions that the newspaper has switch their reports from cannibalism, sex, and sadism into success stories, celebrities, and occult which caused its circulation to rise by 2,600,000. It also mentions that the newspaper sells primarily in supermarkets to housewives. According to owner and president Genoroso Pope Jr., people are already clamoring to write for them.

The article focuses on the role of newspaper in the Hall-Mills mystery. Tons of white paper have been covered with trivial details about clothes, with personalities and highly colored descriptions of individual department in the courtroom. The New York Times has already devoted to the trial more words than Theodore Dreiser needed for the development of his monumental novel, "An American Tragedy." The others have not been idle. Enough words have been sent out of the Jersey village to fill nine volumes of the "Encyclopedia Britannica."

The article presents a critique of news developments in the U.S. and the world. In the recently published "McKinley's Masterpieces," it is revealed that nominee William McKinley stands high among America's greatest orators. Everybody would have believed this if McKinley had never delivered or printed any orations; Internationally, the rubbish which some of the American papers allow their England correspondents to prepare for the American market is receiving another striking exemplification in the pretence that free trade in England is in some danger.

The general impression one gets from reading the official Nazi press is that though the Germans have conquered Europe, they are depressed and sad, so sad that the Propaganda Ministry cannot cover it up. Even the reports of Germany's victories written by official war correspondents contain no note of triumph but are tinged rather with weariness and nostalgia. The article presents an excerpt from a story printed in "Das Reich," the official paper of the Propaganda Ministry, illustrates the prevalent tone of the reports from the eastern front.

The article looks at how English reporter Don Iddon depicts the U.S. in his columns on several papers on the Continent and through the British Commonwealth. Iddon gives readers the impression that astrology plays an important in the lives of U.S. citizens and that African Americans live in poor conditions. His observations are compiled in his book "Don Iddon's America." Despite his comments on the U.S., Iddon has warned Britons not to take seriously the Anglophobia of some U.S. isolationist newspapers.

The article discusses the travails of a columnist. From the point of view of working newspapermen, maybe the author ought to qualify that word "working," since a columnist lives by peculiar hours. If he is employed on an afternoon paper he ought to be up out of bed and on the job by three in the afternoon. If he lingers longer than that he is just plain lazy. Writing his column takes from half an hour to an hour-depending on how many contributions he gets. After his work is done he gets ready for dinner and then he goes to a show and after that a night club perhaps- that's called gathering material and it's very arduous and every columnist has to do it whether he wants to or not.

The article describes the response of press and newspaper services to the decision of judge Francis Valente of Manhattan, New York City to bar reporters from the trial of Minot Jelke III who was accused of being a pimp by 19-year-old call girl Pat Ward. The court forbid lawyers or witnesses to volunteer information but bits of evidence were let out by parties involved in the case. The newsmen appealed to a higher court to reverse Valente's ban because it threatens fair trials and press freedom.

Focuses on the journalism in Chicago, Illinois. Description of the savage customs of reporters in Chicago by motion picture scenarist, Charles MacArthur, who co-authored the stage play "The Front Page"; Information on the feudal partnership between Captain Joseph M. Patterson and his cousin Bertie McCormick, of the newspaper "The Chicago Tribune"; Report that both partners were disciples of militant journalism in which the paper got the facts upon its own and then informed the Mayor, the Governor or even the President of the state of the nation as seen through Tribune facts and figures; Report that within the last few months the newspaper "The New York Daily News," even undertook to carry on its own experiments to prove that a large and powerful newspaper need not be subservient to the will of Providence itself; Criticism of the position of "The New York Daily News," by the newspaper "Daily Worker," on the question of Munich, Germany, appeasement and anti-Semitism; Report that Captain called upon Congressman Martin Dies to investigate the sheet which dared to attack his newspaper and ascertain whether the charge of Russian financing was correct.

The article discusses public press in America. News is the oxygen of democratic society, and the American form of government cannot long endure if the supply is impeded or allowed to suffer contamination. The concentration of control over the news has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. The main instrument of that concentration is the Associated Press, the news agency with tentacles reaching around the world which for some fifty years has operated to restrict the flow of new blood into the news-paper business. Now this organization has been charged, in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, with "combination and conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce in news, information, and intelligence among the several states."

The article presents a profile of Sidney Cassese, reporter of the newspaper "Richmond Times-Dispatch," who lives in the city jail in Richmond, Virginia for being accused of armed robbery. Cassese, who works on feature articles and writes for city desk criticism, has pleased everyone including publisher David Tennant Bryan and editor Earle Dunford of the paper. Cassese was serving a sentence in the Virginia State Penitentiary, but due to her good behavior she was sent to the city jail.

Offers observations on a meeting of reporters called by one of the richest industrialists in the U.S. Manee Mints at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. Criticism of reports undertaken by the newspapers regarding his life and the life of his wife; Declaration made by Mints on the guilt of society reporters on the type of gossip they report to the newspapers; Instructions to the reporters by Manee to stop using his name and that of his wife until the period of depression ends; Concerns in the newspaper circle regarding the stand taken by Mints.

The article offers information on the agitation among journalists regarding the issue of job satisfaction. It mentions the factors that have led to the discontentment of reporters, which include low remuneration and their urge to have larger roles in the management of the newspaper they work for. The article further highlights the steps that the journalists have taken to achieve their goals towards employee empowerment and their views towards the Newspaper Guild.

The article acknowledges the best newspaper reporters who cover presidential press conferences and other capital issues in Washington, D.C. Arthur Krock, who is considered as Washington's number one correspondent, has victoriously acquired two Pulitzer Prizes and exclusive presidential interviews with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Bert Andrews leads the New York Herald Tribune Washington bureau since 1941. Mark Watson, who is rated as top military writer in Washington, is an expert on the armed services and weapons.