Knight had been dead for 25 years by then, but his legacy still oozed from the walls at 44 E. Knight-Ridder newspapers had won 85 of journalism’s most coveted awards by the time the chain was sold for $4.5 billion in 2006, when the value of daily newspapers already had begun their steep decline. JSK wasn’t the first to create a newspaper chain – Scripps, Hearst, the Pulitzers all preceded him – but nobody did it better, as he proved that you could produce both profits and Pulitzer Prizes. He inherited it from his father, and then he and his brother James transformed his family’s hometown publication into a journalistic empire. Knight, had indirectly created the monster that was devouring the Beacon.Īkron was the first of Knight’s newspapers. I felt like crying when I first sat down to write this, only three days after it was announced that the Akron Beacon Journal had been sold to Gatehouse Media, another vulture capitalist group picking over the remains of the industry I love.īut perhaps the good intentions of the newspaper’s patriarch, John S. Twenty-Five Stories 23 Those were the days in Rubber City … but they had to end Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories Sam Sheppardĩ. How I became a newspaper woman against all oddsġ0. A muckraker comes to Cleveland and founds Point of Viewġ3. Precision journalism and uncovering disparities in the courtsġ4. Catching a ride into the newsroom - and historyġ6. Stop the presses (for the very last time)ġ7. The magic of a city and newsroom full of charactersġ8. The road to a big-city daily and life at Ohio's largest newspaperġ9. Health care, the "sleeve," and life in The PD newsroomĢ0. Covering Cleveland neighborhoods: these streets talk - if only we'd listenĢ2. A prize-winning columnist leaves The PDĢ3. Those were the days in Rubber City … but they had to endĢ4. Newsgathering in the new millennium: boom and then bust 2. Dig deep, stick to the facts, no cheap shots: A reporters' editor talks about The PD newsroomģ. Strength, beauty, power - covering Cleveland's long-ignored black communityĤ. A daughter remembers Cleveland's real best-kept secretħ. Why the Press used "all its editorial artillery" against Dr.
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